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From the Vantage of the Victory: The Performative Heart of the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on Samothrace
Project Description: The Victory (Nike) of Samothrace in the Louvre has long captured the imagination of the world, but it becomes all the more powerful when reunited with its spatial, material, historical, religious, and aesthetic environment in the ancient Greek Sanctuary of the Great Gods on Samothrace. With the generous support of a Collaborative Research…
North Aegean Architectural Networks: Thasos and Samothrace in the Formation of Hellenistic and Roman Design
This collaboration between the Art History Department of Emory University and Département d’Histoire de l’art et archéologie, Université Bordeaux Montaigne
Geology and Geomorphology in the Sanctuary of the Great Gods
Project description: All who come to the Sanctuary of the Great Gods are intuitively aware of the interaction of geologic and human forces in crafting the sacred space. In 2013 we reoriented our archaeological investigation to encompass the geologic factor more fully. With the support of the Malcolm Hewitt Wiener Foundation and matching donors, we…
Sponsored Research Projects
excavations-and-research, spons-research-projects, sponsored-research-projects From the Vantage of the… Project Description: The Victory (Nike) of Samothrace in the Louvre has long captured the imagination of the world, but it becomes all the more powerful when reunited with its spatial, material, historical, religious, and aesthetic environment in the ancient Greek Sanctuary of the Great Gods on Samothrace.…
Passage and Perception in the Sanctuary of the Great Gods, Samothrace: Visualization and Animation
In the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on Samothrace, we have mined the innovative potential of three-dimensional digital modeling to document, analyze, and communicate the complex spatial relationships that bind place, architecture, and ritual in this famous yet elusive mystery cult.
South Nekropolis Plan
Elsbeth Dusenbery devoted her research career to the excavation and publication of the nekropoleis near the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on Samothrace. Her work appeared in Samothrace. Excavations Conducted by the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University, volume 11, The Nekropoleis, published in 1998 by Princeton University Press.