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Lectures with Miguel John Versluys and Albert de Jong

306 Royce Hall 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles

Persianism in Commagene: The Mnemohistory of the Achaemenid Empire in Hellenistic Eurasia Miguel John Versluys (University of Leiden / Getty Villa Scholar) The socio-political and cultural memory of the Achaemenid (Persian) Empire played a very important role already in Antiquity. Miguel John Versluys has proposed to call this phenomenon, that is, the impact of Achaemenid Persia on the antique...

Diophante’s Kandys: Faceted Relations between Persia and Classical Athens

306 Royce Hall 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles

Margaret C. Miller (University of Sydney) Against a background of war and power politics, social exchange also took place between ancient Athens and the Persian Empire founded by Cyrus. Whether as (unintentional) arbiter of high fashion, benchmark of elegant behaviour, or model for imperial protocol, Persia impacted Athenian life on many levels. Sometimes adoptions were...

Ancient Persia and the West

306 Royce Hall 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles

The Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World and the Getty Research Institute are co-organizing a one-day symposium to be held on April 25, 2018 at the Pourdavoud Center, UCLA. Presenters will include invited speakers and the current Getty Villa Scholars, whose projects focus on the encounters of ancient Iran with the classical...