Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430‒1950

Recommended by Emma Dench, Dean of the Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History and of the Classics

While Mark Mazower’s story begins with the Ottoman conquest and ends in the immediate aftermath of World War II, we will be focusing on the Greek and Roman periods of the region, but you inevitably see antiquity through more recent historical layers, and I believe you should do this deliberately in order to ask better questions of the remote past.