CONF: Seleucid Study Day

Seen on the Classicists list:

The Centre for Hellenistic and Romano-Greek Culture and Society (Exeter)
and the Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies invite you to a

Seleucid Study Day

University of Exeter, 15 August 2011
Amory Building, Room 219

Programme

9:00 Tea, Opening
9:20-12:40 Session I: Queens, Princesses, and Dynastic Issues of the Seleucids (chaired by Altay Coskun, Waterloo, ON)
(1) Monica d’ Agostino (PhD candidate Milan)
Seleucids and Mithridatids: the Origin of Their Dynastic Ties
(2) Marie Widmer (PhD candidate Lausanne)
The Repudiation of Laodice III
10:40 Tea Break
11:00 (3) Gillian Ramsey (Leicester)
Seleucid Dunasteia, Royal Land and Cities
(4) Alex McAuley (MA Edinburgh)
Towards a Seleucid Dynastic Model
12:20 Lunch Break (Streatham Court Cafeteria)
14:00-16:00 Session II: Construction of Seleucid Royalty: Studies in the Politics and Propaganda of Antiochus I (chaired by Stephen Mitchell, Exeter)
(5) Altay Coskun (Waterloo, ON)
The Soter Cults of Seleucus I and Antiochus I Preceding the So-Called Elephant Victory of ca. 275 BC
(6) Kyle Erickson (Lampeter)
Babylonian Religion and Seleucid Propaganda
(7) David Engels (UL Brussels)
Antiochus I and the Early Seleucids’ Iranian Heritage
16:00-16:20 Tea/Coffee Break
16:20-18:20 Session III: Further Seleucid Studies (chaired by Lynette Mitchell, Exeter)
(8) Franca Landucci (Milan)
Seleucus versus Antigonus
(9) Federico Russo (Konstanz)
The Syrian War: a Rerun of the Persian Wars?
(10) Michael Sommer (Liverpool)
Kings of Glory. Charismatic Authority in the Seleucid Monarchy
18:20/30 Closing, Departure to the restaurant

Papers will be of up to 20 min length, followed by up to 20 min discussion. Abstracts will be circulated among all participants early in August.

To find Exeter, the Streatham Campus, and the Amory Building, please follow this link: http://www.exeter.ac.uk/visit/directions/

If you need accommodation, we recommend the very attractive offers by event exeter. Before you book, please make sure you chose a residence located on Streatham Campus: http://www.exeter.ac.uk/eventexeter/accommodation.php

There is no conference fee. But please notify us, if you want to attend.

Contact: acoskun AT uwaterloo.ca or s.mitchell AT exeter.ac.uk