Dr John Tidmarsh Evening Lecture & Book Launch

Almost fifty years of excavations undertaken by the University of Sydney have enriched our knowledge of Pella during the Hellenistic and early Roman periods. The evidence is now clear that the site was inhabited during the era of Ptolemaic control in the third century BCE but are we being too optimistic in hoping that Pella may turn out to be one of the foundations of Alexander the Great himself?
Dr John Tidmarsh is an archaeologist who has conducted excavations in Syria, Jordan, Greece, and Cyprus.

He is currently Co-Director of the University of Sydney excavations at Pella in Jordan and also Co-Director of the Australian Mission to Jebel Khalid, Syria. He is an Honorary Associate, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Sydney and was previously Senior Investigator of the University of Sydney excavations in Torone, Greece and Associate Director of the University of Sydney excavations at Paphos, Cyprus. He is a former President of NEAF and is Chairman, Executive Committee of the Australian Archaeological Institute of Athens.