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2006-2007 Fellows

Margaret Butler

Stanford University
Department of Classics

Before beginning graduate work at Stanford (Classics & Archaeology), Meg graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill. She is a member of The Helike Project in Greece, and she has worked on excavations in Sicily, Jordan, and the southern US. Present affiliations include Stanford's MetaMedia Lab, Stanford's Humanities Lab, and archaeography.com.

Project Summary

Of Swords and Strigils: Social Change in Ancient Macedon covers changes in death-ritual and other areas of society leading up to Macedon's emergence as a major Aegean power in the fourth century BCE. Butler embraces the inherent complexity of historical processes, employing research methods and narrative forms that situate Macedon within an Aegean-wide history and integrate archaeology in an analytical, rather than illustrative, fashion.