Welcome
to Michael C.Scott's web site.
I am currently the Moses and Mary Finley Fellow in ancient History at Darwin College, Cambridge. My principal research interests lie in the interrelationships between Art and Text, the interactions between material culture and religious practice and the reception of the ancient world in the modern. I also teach several undergraduate history, art, archaeology and history of art courses for the Faculties of Art History and Classics at Cambridge. I completed my Ph.D. in July 2007 on the ‘Spatial politics of Greek sanctuaries’ at the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge. The project, supervised by Prof. Robin Osborne and conducted in Cambridge and Athens with the help of the British School at Athens and the Ecole françaises d’Athènes, was focused on understanding the varying ways in which sanctuary spaces were perceived and used by different cities, states and individuals around the Greek world during the archaic and classical periods, with a particular focus on the panhellenic sanctuaries of Delphi and Olympia.
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During 2007, I have been an academic consultant to easyCruise, a venture by Stelios of easyJet fame, who is running a new cruise tour of Classical Greece. I have been involved in planning and marketing the tour. See more at www.easycruise.com
In November 07 I was guest lecturer aboard easycruise. See the reviews of my tour. I will be guest lecturer again on the cruise leaving March 16th 2008.
In November 2007, I ran the Athens Marathon to raise money for the Stroke Association. In total I raised £1500. See photo of me running the marathon here.
In May 2008, I am organising the Laurence Seminar at Cambridge University on the subject of “The discourses of political and cultural panhellenism in the Greek and Roman worlds”. In a world where notions of unity and common ground are at a premium, this seminar will be a two day conference with papers and round table discussion from scholars around the world on the existence and nature of such notions of unity in the ancient world.
Who were the Greeks?
I will be offering a month-long lecture course in Summer 2008 as part of the Pembroke/Kings summer programme for US university students at Cambridge University. Each day in August, I will give a lecture exploring the development and importance of different cultural identities in ancient Greece and, in turn, how Greek identity has come to play a crucial role in our own world today. The course will be attended by US students from universities like Berkeley and Penn as a credit-approved part of their studies. Find out more about the course at: http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk
/ip/courses/ancient-greeks/index.html
Crossing Costa Rica Coast to Coast
In March 2007, I took part in an expedition to bike, hike, raft and kayak across Costa Rica in 10 days to raise money for the Prince’s Trust, a charity working with disadvantage young people aged 14-30 in the UK. Our team raised nearly £17000 for the Charity. To read more about the expedition, click on the links to the PDFs explaining more about the challenge and read my training blog with photos from the expedition itself.
Expedition BLOG +
Team Pythians relish the Challenge
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