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On 16-17 April 2010 at the American Academy in Rome, an ambitious international conference  — see the full Program below — will re-examine the evidence for Greek and Greek-style baths. The conference promises to revise our understanding of the significance of an extraordinary range of ever-increasing archaeological material. That includes the earliest evidence from Greece itself, with developments down into the later Roman imperial period, where Greek and Greek-style baths continued alongside Roman complexes.Co-organizing the conference are independent scholar Sandra Lucore FAAR’07, and Monika Trümper, Department of Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.One major contribution of the conference is that it will examine baths and related evidence in areas outside the Greek mainland—a traditional focus—including the Aegean islands, Cyprus, Egypt, southern France, and Sicily and south Italy. Here the archaeological evidence, especially from the Hellenistic period, shows much that was innovative and experimental in architectural design, decoration and construction technology. Plus the evidence from Sicily (especially Syracuse, the home of Archimedes) and south Italy is crucial to any discussion of the origins of Roman baths. Many larger topics naturally emerge from this discussion of the archaeology of Greek baths, including ownership and patronage, social customs, hygienic and curative aspects, and gender, religious and ethnic issues.Conference programFRIDAY 16 APRIL9:00-9:30 Sandra Lucore (Tokyo) - M. Trümper (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Introduction9:30-10:15 Fikret Yegül (University of California, Santa Barbara) Thermal Matters: Intersected Legacies of Greek and Roman Baths10:15-11:00 Rebecca Flemming (University of Cambridge) The Rise of Bathing in Greek Medicine11:00-11:30 Coffee break11:30-12:15 Adrian Stähli (University of Zürich) Women Bathing on Greek Vases12:15-13:00 Sandra Lucore (Tokyo) Bathing Culture in Hieronian Sicily13:00-14:30 Lunch Break14:30-15:15 Pier Daniele Napolitani (University of Pisa) Archimede e le volte15:15-16:00 Giovanna Greco (University of Naples Federico II) Il complesso delle terme ellenistiche ad Elea/Velia16:00-16:15 Coffee break16:15-17:15 Emanuele Greco (Italian School of Archaeology, Athens) - Paolo Vitti (University of Rome, La Sapienza/Italian School of Archaeology, Athens) Bagno Greco di Efestia/LemnoSATURDAY 17 APRIL9:00-9:45 Polixeni Adam-Veleni (Archaeological Museum, Thessaloniki) A Hellenistic Bath in Thessaloniki9:45-10:30 Cornelia Römer (German Archaeological Institute, Cairo) The Greek Baths in the Fayyum10:30-11:00 Coffee break11:00-12:00 Thibaud Fournet (CNRS Damascus) – Bérangère Redon (University of Lille 3/IFAO Cairo) Le chauffage des bains grecs: découvertes récentes en Égypte et tentative de synthèse12:00-12:45 Skevi Christodoulou (University of Cyprus) Hellenistic balaneia in Cyprus: the Institution of Bathing in Context13:00-14:30 Lunch Break14:30-15:15 Monika Trümper (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Urban Contexts of Greek Public Baths15:15-16:15 Fikret Yegül (University of California, Santa Barbara) Response and final discussionThe conference is funded by generous support from the Gerda Henkel Foundationand also Mrs. Muriel Bell. For more information, please contactCorey Brennan at the American Academy in Rome.