How Byzantine Civilization Influenced Modern-day Culture, live Zoom lecture by Maria Mavroudi (University of California, Berkeley), organized by the Hellenic-American Cultural Foundation, June 18, 2020, 6:00 pm

Join Professor Maria Mavroudi for our first in a series of virtual events. Scholars from the 19th and 20th centuries assigned Byzantium a marginal role in the development of world civilization, one limited to the preservation of "classical" Greek texts. However, during the last two or three decades, new interpretations of Byzantine civilization have begun to challenge this view. Professor Mavroudi's presentation will focus on Byzantium's economy and monetary system, its art and its literature, in order to explain the global importance of Byzantine civilization. 

Professor Mavroudi will be available for questions at the end of presentation.

Maria Mavroudi is Professor of Byzantine History and Classics at the University of California, Berkeley.

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