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Professor Catherine Morgan OBE

Professor Catherine Morgan OBE

Professor of Classical Archaeology

On secondment as Director of the British School of Archaeology at Athens

E-mail catherine.morgan@kcl.ac.uk
Address Department of Classics
King's College London
Strand
London WC2R 2LS 
  Research Interests
  • Archaeology of the Early Iron Age and Archaic Greek world
  • Greek religion
  • Corinth and the west
  • The Black Sea
  • Ancient pottery studies
  • The Stavros Valley Archaeological Project, Ithaka
  • The Bosphoran Kingdom in the Archaic and Classical periods
  Selected Publications
  • Catherine Morgan (2007) 'Debating patronage: the cases of Argos and Corinth', in Pindar's Poetry, Patrons, and Festivals From Archaic Greece to the Roman Empire pp. 213-264
    [Chapter]
  • Simon Hornblower, Catherine Morgan (2007) Pindar's Poetry, Patrons, and Festivals From Archaic Greece to the Roman Empire Oxford: Oxford University Press 
    [Edited book in print]
  • C Morgan, J Hall (2004) 'An inventory of Achaian poleis in the Archaic and Classical periods', in An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis 
    [Chapter]
  • Gocha R Tsetskhladze, Catherine Morgan (2004) Attic Fine Pottery of the Archaic to Hellenistic Periods in Phanagoria: Phanagoria Studies vol 1  Leiden and Boston: Brill 
    [Edited book in print]
  • C Morgan (2004)  'Wealthy Corinth revisited' Clio; A Journal of European Studies, 18, pp. 71-93.
    [Article in print Journal]
  • C Morgan (2003) Early Greek States Beyond the Polis Oxford: Routledge 
    [Authored Book in print]
  • Karim Arafat, Catherine Morgan, Paul Cartledge (2002) Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece Reprint from hardback Cambridge, U.K. ;; New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press 
    [Edited book in print]
  • C Morgan (2002) 'Ethnicity: the example of Achaia', in Gli Achei a l'Identità etnica degli Achei d'Occidente, Atti del Convegno Internazionale pp. 95-116
    [Chapter]
  • C Morgan (2002) 'The origins of the Isthmian festival: points of comparison and contrast', in Olympia 1875-2000. 125 Janre Deutsche Ausgrabungen pp. 251-271
    [Chapter]
  • Karim Arafat, Catherine Morgan (2002) 'Visual Arts', in Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece pp. 250-287
    [Chapter]
  • C Morgan (2001) 'Ethne, ethnicity and early Greek states, ca.1200-480: an archaeological perspective', in Ancient Perceptions of Greek Ethnicity pp. 75-112
    [Chapter]
  • C Morgan (2001)  'Figurative iconography from Corinth, Ithaka, and Pithekoussai: Aetos 600 reconsidered' ANNUAL- BRITISH SCHOOL AT ATHENS, 96, pp. 195-227.
    [Article in print Journal]
  • C Morgan, K Arafat (2001) 'Imported fine pottery of the Archaic to early Hellenistic poeriods in the collection of the Temryiuk museum, Krasnodar region, South Russia', in The Archaeology of Northern Pontus: New Discoveries and Intrepretations pp. 265-297
    [Chapter]
  • C Morgan (2001) 'Symbolic and pragmatic aspects of warfare in the Greek world of the 8th-6th centuries BC', in War as a Cultural and Social Force pp. 20-44
    [Chapter]
  • C Morgan (2001) 'The Corinthian aristocracy and Corinthian cult during the eighth century BC', in Peloponnesian Sanctuaries and Cults pp. 45-51
    [Chapter]
  • Catherine Morgan (2000) 'Achaikes poleis kai achaikos apoikismos', in Paysages d'Achaïe II. Dymé et son territoire: actes du colloque international : Dymaia et Bouprasia, Katô Achaïa, 6-8 octobre 1995 pp. 105-112
    [Chapter]
  • C Morgan, K Arafat (2000) 'Among the earliest Attic imports from Phanagoria', in PERIPLOUS. Festschrift for Prof. Sir John Boardman pp. 39-47
    [Chapter]
  • C Morgan (2000) 'Politics without the polis: cities and the formation of the Achaian ethos, ca. 800-500BC', in Alternatives to Athens. Varieties of Political Organization and Community in Ancient Greece pp. 189-211
    [Chapter]
  • C Morgan (2000)  'Review of K Pilafidis-Williams 'The sanctuary of Aphaia on Aigina in the Bronze Age' Hirmir Verlag 1999' CLASSICAL REVIEW, 50 (2), pp. 662-663.                                                                   [Book Review (Print)]
 
  PhD Supervision

Professor Morgan is primary supervisor for students undertaking the following PhD research topics:

  • The Corinthia in the Classical period
  • Banquetting on Cyprus in the 8th-6th centuries BC
  • Lakonian sanctuaries in the Early Iron Age and Archaic periods
  • Figurative vase-painting at Pithekoussai
  • Pausanias in Arkadia
  • Votive deposits from the sanctuary of Poseidon, Cape Sounion
 
 
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