AchWorks 4: The Achaemenid-Persian Empire and its Western Borderlands

An international workshop organized by:
Robert Rollinger, Julian Degen, and Erich Kistler (Innsbruck), in cooperation with Bernhard Palme and Florian Schwarz (Wien)

Co-sponsored by:

• UCLA Pourdavoud Institute
• UCLA Yarshater Center
• Austrian Academy of Sciences, Commission “Transformation Processes and Empire in the Ancient Afro-Eurasian Worlds”
• Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Cluster of Excellence “EurAsian Transformations. Resources of the Past & Challenges of Diversity”

About the Event

The Achaemenid-Persian Empire and its Western Borderlands: A Change of Paradigm (Achaemenid Workshop 4)

Depar­ting from the emphasis on rivalry that domi­nated schol­arly discus­sions of Aegean–Achaemenid-Persian rela­tions for a long time, this work­shop seeks to offer vistas onto the varied tes­timony (writ­ten, archaeo­lo­gi­cal, numis­ma­tic) that is presently available for the study of the multi­fa­ceted encoun­ters between the Aegean and Achae­menid-Persian worlds and to new approa­ches to its inter­pre­ta­ti­on. The confe­rence will high­light the import­ance of these encoun­ters as a mirror to broader patterns of poli­ti­cal, social, econo­mic, and cultural pheno­mena promoted in the eastern Medi­ter­ra­nean region (and beyond) under Achae­menid-Persian impe­rial expan­sion and rule.

About Achaemenid Workshops

The Achaemenid Workshops (AchWorks) are a series of international conferences that endeavor to revisit, reassess, and reformulate (the state of) Achaemenid scholarship.