Jean-Pierre Vernant Days
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Convened by Nino Luraghi (New College)
Tuesday, April 29th
2:30 pm
Chair: Christopher Metcalf (Queen's College Oxford)
Keynote presentation:
Wouter Henkelman (EPHE Paris)
Hellenism before Hellenism: The opening of the world under the Achaemenids
4 pm
Coffee break
4:30 pm
Chair: Peter Thonemann (Wadham College Oxford)
Rémi Bois (EPHE Paris)
The Persian ruling class and its multicultural roots
Marco Ferrari (EPHE Paris / Sapienza Università di Roma)
The Formation of an Inter-Ethnic Ruling Class in Achaemenid Anatolia: Cultural Models and Administrative Practices
Wednesday, April 30th
9 am
Chair: Nino Luraghi (New College Oxford)
Margaux Spruyt (EPHE, Paris)
Horses in Persepolis
Mridula Gullapalli (Merton College Oxford)
Diasporic Footprints: Greek communities in Achaemenid Egypt
10 30 am Coffee break
11 am
Chair: Wouter Henkelman (EPHE Paris)
Fiona Pillips (Corpus Christi College Oxford)
Mausolus' Close Shave: Treating Satrap as Tyrant in Achaemenid Caria
Oliver Clarke (New College Oxford)
'In the fourth year of the reign of Philip, when Asander was satrap...': the decline of the satrapies in Western Asia Minor from Alexander to Antigonus the One-Eyed