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Invited Lecture
"The Hellenistic Metropolis Pergamon and Its Port Elaia:
New Research by the German Archaeological Institute"
PD Dr. Felix Pirson
Since 2005, the Pergamon excavation team has conducted new research aimed at understanding the structure of the metropolis in the Hellenistic age and its relationship to the surrounding area. We have focused in particular on understanding building strategy, reconstructing the road network at the east and west sides of the city, which has not been surveyed, and determining the extent and function of structures at the port city Elaia. Results are illuminating new views of the period from the Early Bronze Age to the early Byzantine period, or the end of the 3rd millennium B.C. to the 7th century A.D.
Biography
Felix Pirson
Born in 1968. From 1989, studied classical archaeology, history of art and prehistory at Rheinischen-Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Albertus-Magnus-Universität Köln, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and University of Cambridge. In 1996, completed doctorates at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Assistant of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome (1996~1998) and Universität Leipzig (2001~2005). In 2005 at Universität Leipzig, completed Habilitation. Deputy director of the German Archaeological Institute in Istanbul (2005). Since 2006, director of the Institute and the Pergamon excavation team.
Main Publications
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- Mietwohnungen in Pompeji und Herkulaneum. Untersuchungen zur Architektur, zum Wohnen und zur Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte der Vesuvstädte, Studien zur antiken Stadt 5 (1999).
- Ansichten des Krieges. Kampfreliefs klassischer und hellenistischer Zeit im Kulturvergleich. Ergänzungshefte JdI (in press)
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- Elaia, der maritime Satellit Pergamons, in: Festschrift Wolfgang Radt, Istanbuler Mitteilungen 54, 2004, 197-213.
- Pergamon - Das neue Forschungsprogramm und die Arbeiten in der Kampagne 2005. Archäologischer Anzeiger 2006/2, 55-79.
- Das Territorium der hellenistischen Residenzstadt Pergamon. Herrschaftlicher Anspruch als raumbezogene Strategie, in: C. Jöchner (Hrsg.), Räume der Stadt. Von der Antike bis heute (2008), 27-50.