Friends Lunch with a Member
Eleni Hasaki, Member, School of Historical Studies
Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Simons Hall | Dilworth Room
12:00 p.m. - Please bring your lunch or purchase it in the Servery
12:15 p.m. - Program begins

Potters’ Expertise and Entrepreneurship in Ancient Greece

In this lecture, Professor Hasaki approaches the ceramic industry in ancient Greece (600-400 BCE) in a more holistic framework, analyzing carefully the expertise embedded in every step of the production. In her fieldwork with professional potters and painters of Greek vase replicas, she uses energetics  to construct timetables for basic shapes and to highlight incremental difficulty of different surface treatments and decoration. In this new entrepreneurial-focused context, all products of Greek pottery workshops, from the mundane ones to the masterpieces are best understood as a convergence of skilled expertise and savvy business management.

To learn more about Eleni Hasaki's work, visit her IAS Scholar Page

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