CONF: The Many Faces of a Hellenistic King

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Many Faces of a Hellenistic King

A multi-disciplinary conference on Hellenistic Kingship
Department of Archaeology – Durham University

In association with the Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East (CAMNE) &
The Institute of Advanced Studies

11th-12th November 2011

Registeration for attendance at the conference of the Many Faces of
Hellenistic Kingship is now open.

To register please send an email with your full name, status and
affiliation to hellenistic.kingship AT durham.ac.uk

The conference will take place at the Durham University’s Oriental Museum with the dinner taking place at St.Aidan’s college on the 11th of November

Conference registeration fee is 20 GBP, dinner fee is 27 GBP

The dinner menu and practical information will soon be available on the conference’s webpage:

http://www.dur.ac.uk/archaeology/conferences/current/manyfaces/

Conference Programme
Friday 11th November 2011

09.00 Registration at the Oriental Museum
09.15 Welcome Note
Session 1:
09.45-10.30 Ivana PETROVIC, Durham University
Ptolemies as Religious Figures: Representation of Divine Kings in the
Third Century BC Poetry
10.30-11.15 Branko van OPPEN
“Lamentation in Early-Ptolemaic Cult”
11.15-12.00 Kyle ERICKSON, University of Wales, Trinity Saint David
A Century of Gods: a Reconsideration of Seleucid Ruler Cult

12.00-12.45 Cristian GHITA, University of Bucharest
Dynastic cults in Pontus – between Religion and Politics

12.45-14.00 Lunch Break

Session 2:

14.00-14.45 Prof. Kostas BURASELIS, University of Athens
"The Hellenistic King and his Officials as Social
Guarantors and Arbitrators"
14.45 -15.30 Shane WALLACE, Trinity College Dublin
Royal Benefaction or Civic Entitlement? Demetrius Poliorcetes’ Grant of Freedom to Athens
15.30-16.15 John Russell HOLTON, University of Edinburgh
Demetrios Poliorketes, Son of Poseidon and Aphrodite: an Athenian Face of the King
16.15-16.30 Coffee and Tea Break
Session 3:
16.30-17.15 Silvia BARBANTANI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
“Ἀτθὶς ἐν Ἀσσυρίοις ναιομένα Γαδάροις. Persian war reenactments and reassessments of the Greek-Asian relationship – a literary point of view.”
17.15-18.00 Daniel BECKMAN, UCLA
Transmission of Cultural Information in Achaemenid and Hellenistic Babylon
18.00-18.45 Paola CECCARELLI, Durham University
‘Words from the King: power-relations in the Hellenistic world’
19.00-22.00 Dinner at St. Aidan’s College

Saturday 12th November 2011
09.00-09.30 Reception with coffee and tea
Session 1:
09.30-10.15 Dorothy THOMPSON, University of Cambridge
A Tale of Two Tents
10.15-11.00 Aleksandra KLĘCZAR, Jagiellonian University
The Image of a Good Foreign Ruler in Hellenistic Jewish Writings: The Case
of the First Ptolemies.
11.00-11.45 Rachel WOOD, University of Oxford
Setting the Royal Stage: Expressions of Arsacid Power at Old Nisa
11.45-12.30 Agnieszka FULINSKA, Jagiellonian University
"Ille rex post Alexandrum maximus. In Search of the Image of Mithridates
VI Eupator of Pontus"
12.30 -13.30 Lunch Break

Session 2:
13.30-14.15 Marie WIDMER, University of Lausanne
The Repudiation of Laodice the Third
14.15-15.00 Adrian DUMITRU, Universities of Paris IV Sorbonne &
Bucharest
Torn between Pleasure and Duty – the King as a Banqueter. A Case Study for
Antiochus III Megas and his euboic Marriage
15.00 -15.45 Miles LESTER-PEARSON, University of St Andrews
Tyranny under Alexander the Great and the Diadochi: A case study of the
Clearchids of Heraclea Pontica on the Black Sea
15.45-16.00 Coffee and Tea Break

Session 3:
16.00-16.45 Lloyd LLEWELLYN-JONES, University of Edinburgh
The Great King’s Robe Observations on Persian Royal Dress
16.45-17.30 Rebecca DODD, University of Glasgow
Seleucid “Queenship”: Images of Female Royal Power in the Seleucid Empire
17.30-18.15 Heba ABD EL GAWAD, Durham University
‘Schizophrenic or a spin-doctor?’: Ptolemy II’s Multicultural
Presentations
18.15-19.00 Martina MINAS-NERPEL, Swansea University
"Octavian as pharaoh: His (self-) presentation and the Egyptian kingship ideology – accord or disaccord?"

19.00-19.30 Discussions and Closing remarks