Gyaros and the Archaeology of Exile on Aegean Islands

PhD defence by Evan Isak Levine

Assessment Committee

Professor of New Testament Heike Omerzu, Theology, University of Copenhagen (Chairperson)
Professor of Classical Archaeology Sylvian Fachard, University of Lausanne
Professor in Carceral Geography Dominique Moran, University of Birmingham

Supervisors

Professor Matthew David Larsen

Place

Building: Faculty of Theology, Room: 4A-0-56, Karen Blixens Plads 16, 2300 Copenhagen

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Short description of the thesis

This thesis interrogates the archaeological, documentary, and literary evidence for exile and imprisonment on Aegean islands from antiquity to the recent past. Research centres on questioning whether islands are inherently carceral or whether island carcerality is constructed; how carceral island landscapes are conceived, manifested, and experienced; why islands in the Aegean have been used for carceral purposes over time and under different circumstances; and what these factors can teach us about carceral regimes in antiquity, the recent past, and the relationship between these practices over time. The island of Gyaros serves as the primary case study, offering new insight into diachronic island incarceration and the practice of exile and imprisonment in the Aegean.