Kommos Conservancy

08/10/2026

Minoan fresco artist at Kommos and other Bronze Age sites on Crete, the Cyclades and the mainland of what is now Greece. Perhaps itinerate tradespeople in the levant and Egypt. fil:///C:/Users/JCS/Places/BA-Eastern%20Mediterranean/Egypt/Avaris-Tell%20el-Dab'a/Shaw-Maria_The_Bull_leaping_Fresco.pdf

08/10/2026

Hooray for former Kommos illustrator Glynnis Fawkes who continues to illustrate Bronze Age Greek, Cycladic and Minoan subject matter. She recently asked "How might have these ancient frescos have been painted? And how can I fit them into panels?" I wonder: Were there female artists working on the Minoan frescos? Were men and women working in the same trade(s), including music? https://www.facebook.com/glynnisfawkes

08/10/2026

The American School of Classical Studies at Athens

invites you to the lecture

High Profit & High Culture
Maritime Trade in Fourth-Century Athens

Edward E. Cohen

University of Pensylvania

13 October

19:00 (Greece) | 12:00 (U.S. EDT)

Cotsen Hall, Anapiron Polemou 9 str.

10676 - Athens

Watch on YouTube

29/09/2026

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21/09/2026

Kommos author and scholar Dr. Jeremy B. Rutter's review of Birgitta P. Hallager's Knossos relations to Kydonia. https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.04.27/?fbclid=IwY2xjawUeJ2NwZG9mAWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAGJyaWQRMU1QNGhoWklMWmlQcVl1emRzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeh4ERaH9OyxLonYUFZuoO20gks_NqmY0cVuQ2HXesZCHRoj5bRPSgFzWqgDI_aem_LYjwljjUPqd-P8EWm2VVDg

BMCR 2026.04.27 LM IIIB Knossos and its relations to Kydonia Birgitta P. Hallager, LM IIIB Knossos and its relations to Kydonia. Skrifter utgivna av Svenska institutet i Athen 4°, 61. Stockholm: Swedish Institute at Athens, 2025. Pp. 184. ISBN 9789179160715. Review by Jeremy B. Rutter, Dartmouth Co...

21/09/2026

"The legal and linguistic insights we gain from the Eritha case and the Linear B tablets reveal how the Mycenaean world already combined pragmatic administration with an emerging sense of structured governance."

Clay tablets from Pylos in southern Greece reveal a 3,000-year-old tax dispute that uncovers Mycenaean Greece’s legal system.

24/08/2026

It is not surprising that Kommos is represented a couple of times in this video of the origins of the Philistines. Archaeologist Louise A. Hitchcock argues that distinct elements of Minoan and Cypro-Minoan culture survived and integrated into early Philistine society. Rather than viewing Philistia as purely Mycenaean or violently imposed, her transcultural research—often co-authored with Aren Maeir—highlights deep-seated Cretan and Aegean traditions in Philistine architecture, ritual practices, and symbolic artifactshttps://www.facebook.com/reel/1879136879727956

17/08/2026

A new project is taking David Kremer to Greece. There, he’s searching for a mine for a mineral that was used to produce color pigments in ancient times. https://www.dw.com/en/the-magic-of-colors/video-77023189

14/08/2026

thanks to Dr. Louise Hitchcock for posting about Cambridge Core, a central online platform's creation of a digital library for Cambridge University Press publications, now its research collection on the Odyssey is available for free download until 30 September 2026

https://www.cambridge.org/core/browse-subjects/classical-studies/highlights/the-odyssey.

13/08/2026

A substantial confirmation of this sequence, to be discussed in this
Luca Girella paper, comes from Kommos, based for the most part on the evidence of the original publication of the Kommos MM pottery by Betancourt, supplemented by the important stratigraphical observations of James Wright.
Van de Moortel and Jeremy Rutter have presented further assessments.
https://www.academia.edu/244054/TOWARD_A_DEFINITION_OF_THE_MIDDLE_MINOAN_III_CERAMIC_SEQUENCE?email_work_card=view-paper&li=0