Seleucid Study Day
and the Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies
invite you to a
Seleucid Study Day
University of Exeter, 15 August 2011
Amory Building, Room 218 or 219
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 9:00 | Tea, Opening |
| 9:20 - 12:40 | Session I: Queens, Princesses, and Dynastic Issues of the Seleucids chaired by Altay Coşkun (Waterloo, ON) |
| 9:20 | (1) Monica d’Agostino (PhD candidate Milan) Seleucids and Mithridatids: the Origin of Their Dynastic Ties |
| 10:00 | (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 |
| 11:40 | (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 |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | (5) Altay Coşkun (Waterloo, ON): a) Introduction to a Joint Project on Antiochus I b) The Soter Cults of Seleucus I and Antiochus I Preceding the So-Called Elephant Victory of ca. 275 BC |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | (6) Kyle Erickson (Lampeter): Babylonian Religion and Seleucid Propaganda |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | (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 |
| 16:20 | (8) Franca Landucci (Milan): Seleucus versus Antigonus |
| 17:00 | (9) Federico Russo (Konstanz): The Syrian War: a Rerun of the Persian Wars? |
| 18:30 | 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 tick here:
Directions to Exter
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Accomdation
There is no conference fee, but please notify us, if you want to attend.
Altay Coskun
S. Mitchell
Full report on the conference can be found: here