About the Speaker Josef WIESEHÖFER is a retired professor of Ancient History at the University of Kiel (Germany) and retired director of its ‚Department of Classics‘. He got his Ph.D….
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Published: May 30, 2019About the Speaker James Howard-Johnston was University Lecturer in Byzantine Studies at Oxford and Fellow of Corpus Christi College from 1971 to 2009. He complemented academic activity with involvement in…
Read MoreDura from the East: Iranian Impact on the Formation of Religious Arts across the Trade Routes of the Asian Continent during the 3rd–6th Centuries CE
Published: May 30, 2019About the Speaker Zsuzsanna Gulácsi is a historian of Asian religious art specializing in the contextualized art historical study of pan-Asiatic religions that adapted their arts to a variety of…
Read MoreThe Getty Stag Rhyton and Parthian Aristocratic Culture: New Discoveries
Published: May 30, 2019About the Speaker Matthew P. Canepa (PhD, University of Chicago) is Professor of Art History and Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Presidential Chair in Art History and Archaeology of Ancient Iran at…
Read MorePower Play in the Middle East: Rome, Parthia, and the Politics of Peace
Published: May 30, 2019About the Speaker Jason Schlude is an Associate Professor of Classics and Chair of the Department of Languages and Cultures at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University…
Read MoreDid the Parthian Kings Hate Democracy?
Published: May 30, 2019About the Speaker Nabel’s research centers on interstate affairs between the early Principate and the Parthian empire, Rome’s imperial peer on the Iranian plateau, but he also maintain active interests…
Read MoreSeleucid Encounters with the Iranian World: Religious and Cultic Elements in the Administration and Ruling of the Seleucid East
Published: May 29, 2019Seleucid Encounters with the Iranian World: Religious and Cultic Elements in the Administration and Ruling of the Seleucid East Among the successors of Alexander III the Seleukids were the only…
Read MoreTowards and Intellectual History of the Seleucid Empire?
Published: May 29, 2019Towards and Intellectual History of the Seleucid Empire? When speaking about the “intellectual history” of Classical Athens, Republican Rome or Late Antiquity, even the neophyte to Classical history will be…
Read MoreMore than Greeks Bearing Gifts: Athenian Pottery in the Achaemenid Empire
Published: May 29, 2019About the Speaker Kathleen Lynch is Professor of Classics at the University of Cincinnati, and has also taught at Washington University in St. Louis, Southern Illinois University, and the University…
Read MorePersia and the Parthenon
Published: May 29, 2019About the Speaker Margaret Cool Root’s research focuses on issues of art, social history, and historiography particularly involving studies of iconography, style, and identity politics. Her specialist realms of analysis…
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