The lecture entitled “Rediscovering the wonder: John Turtle Wood (and his wife) at Ephesus” will be presented at the Greek Centre, tonight at 7pm.
The temple of Artemis at Ephesus was held to be one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, yet it disappeared from sight for centuries until an enterprising English architect, John Turtle Wood, set upon rediscovering it.
Tim Parkin joined the Classics and Archaeology department at the University of Melbourne in 2018 as the inaugural Elizabeth and James Tatoulis Chair in Classics. Before this he had spent over eleven years as Professor of Ancient History at the University of Manchester (UK).
He is a New Zealander by birth who was awarded a D.Phil. at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and who, since 1989, has worked in universities in New Zealand, Australia, and the United Kingdom, as well as spending 14 months in Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt research fellow.
More about his lecture in this interview.
