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Outreach

outreach at kibworthOur Outreach team takes archaeology workshops and talks out to schools and colleges in the county. It also runs Masterclasses and workshops on campus and in the department. We've also worked with the army on Project Nightingale at Caerwent. Find out more on what we do! And hear about the places we have visited last year, read some testimonials, and see what we can bring to your school to help bring the past alive!

University of Leicester Archaeological Services

ULAS is an independent professional unit whose expertise covers urban, rural and buildings archaeology of all periods across the Midlands. Find out more...

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Read about the city's archaeology in the new publication Visions of Ancient Leicester

Contact the School

School of Archaeology and Ancient History,
University of Leicester, University Road,
Leicester, LE1 7RH

Key Contacts

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Publications

D. Stewart (in prep, 2011) “Spartan History from Leuctra to Nabis,” for A. Powell (ed.) Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Sparta, Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell.

D. Stewart (in prep, 2011) “The specialisation and intensification of agriculture in Greece in the Roman period” for A. D. Rizakis (ed.) Villae Rusticae and Rural Economy in Greece During the Roman Period, Athens/ Paris, Kentron Ellinikis kai Romaïkis Archaiotitos/ Diffusion de Boccard.

D. Stewart (in prep, 2010) “Pausanias, Sikyon and Historical Topography.”

D. Stewart (submitted to journal, 2010) “Pubic Violence in the Hellenistic and Roman Polis: The conversion of Greek theatres for Roman Spectacle Entertainment.”

D. Stewart (2011) Entries for the Blackwell-Wiley Encyclopedia of Ancient History: Agis II, Agis III, Archidamos, Dercylidas, Kinadon (conspiracy of), Kleomenes I, Kleomenes II, Harmosts, Hysiai, Messenian Wars, and Pausanias II.

D. Stewart (2010) “The Rural Peloponnese: Continuity and Change” for A.D. Rizakis (ed.) Roman Peloponnese III: Studies on Political, Economic and Socio-cultural History, Athens/ Paris, Kentron Ellinikis kai Romaïkis Archaiotitos/ Diffusion de Boccard. 217-233.

D. Stewart (2009) “Review of Cavanagh, Gallou and Georgiadis (eds.) Sparta and Laconia: from prehistory to pre-modern,” Antiquity, 83.322: 1199-1200.

D. Stewart  (2008) “Looking Beyond the Greek City,” Omnibus 56: 28-30.

Y. Lolos, B. Gourley and D. Stewart (2007) “The Sikyon Survey Project: A Blueprint for Urban Survey?” Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 20.2: 267-96.

D. Stewart (2005) “Review of Susan E. Alcock, John F. Cherry, Side-by-Side Survey: Comparative Regional Studies in the Mediterranean,” Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.01.17.

Available online: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2005/2005-01-17.html