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Chair: Frances Pownall
Aleksandra Klęczar (Jagiellonian University, Cracow)
Interpretations of the Scene of Alexander’s Visit to Jerusalem in Ancient Jewish Tradition
Sulochana Asirvatham (Montclair State University)
Second Sophistic Writers and the Imperial Cult
Elias Koulakiotis, (University of Ioannina)
Arrian the priest
Sabine Müller (Innsbruck University/Kiel University)
Alexander the Great and the manipulation of divine signs in the age of the Severans
Lunch
Afternoon Session
5. Space and monuments
Chair: Jacek Rzepka
Brigitte Truschnegg (University of Innsbruck)
Religious elements in the description of cities involved in the campaigns of Alexander the Great
Maria Kantirea (University of Cyprus, Nicosia)
The topography of the imperial cult monuments in the Greek East:
a political answer to a religious issue
Anastasia Serghidou (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
The Invention of religious monumentality and the challenge of thaumasiourgia
17.30-18.00
18.00-19.30
Coffee Break
Closing Session
Keynote speech
François de Polignac (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris)
Espace cultuel et paysage religieux: entre rite et représentation
Concluding remarks
Tim Howe and Elias Koulakiotis
21.00
Dinner
9.00-13.00
Visit to the Ioannina Archaeological Museum and to Dodona
Wed nes d ay, Ju ly 9 t h
Organized by
Tim Howe, Assoc. Prof. in Ancient Mediterranean History and Ancient Studies,
St. Olaf College, Senior Editor of The Ancient History Bulletin, and
Elias Koulakiotis, Lecturer in Ancient Greek History,
Dpt. of History and Archaeology, University of Ioannina
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14.00-16.00
16.00-17.30
P R O G R A M
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3. Monarchic representations
P R O G R A M
Eran Almagor (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
Divinity and its relationship to the Persian Kings in the Royal Achaemenid Inscriptions
Ellen Millender (Reed College, Portland)
A Contest in Charisma: Spartan Kings, Religious Authority, and the Threat
of Non-Royal Glorification
Frances Pownall (University of Alberta)
Dionysius I and the Woman of Himera: A Case Study in the Perils of Political Religion
Panos Christodoulou (University of Cyprus)
Aphrodite and the imperialistic policy of Evagoras (413-374/3 BC)
M o nd ay, Ju ly 7 t h
9.00-9.30
9.30-14.00
Registration
Greetings by the Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy,
Prof. Katerini Liampi and by the organizers
Morning session
1. Athenian religiosity
Chair: Sabine Müller
Giustina Monti (Florida State University)
Peisistratus and the Origins of the Panathenaic Games
Manuel Arjona-Perez (University of Thessaly and University of Zaragoza)
The Sanctuary of Artemis Proseoa in Euboea and Athenian Propaganda
Mark Munn (Pennsylvania State University)
The Mother of the Gods and Empire
Sylvana Katsaounou (2nd Archaeological Ephorate, Athens)
The impact of Cybele’s cult on the political life of Athens during the 5th century B.C.
The political background of the introduction of a foreign deity
Tim Howe (St. Olaf College)
Grazing, Gods and the Peloponnesian War
11.45-12.15
Coffee Break
Chair: Franca Landucci
Alexandra Bartzoka (Université Paris X, Nanterre)
Attribution of divine honours to living monarchs? The case of Amyntas III and Philip II.
Agnieszka Fulinska (Jagiellonian University, Cracow)
Hellenistic Kings as “Mythical Rulers”
Elizabeth Ashley Bews (St. Olaf College)
Caesar, Cleopatra and the Politics of Divinity
21.00
Reception
Tu esd ay, Ju ly 8 t h
Chair: François de Polignac
Gartziou-Tatti Ariadne (University of Ioannina)
The peplos of Hera and the council of the 16 women of Elis
Georgios Mostratos (The National Archive of Monuments, Athens)
The manipulation of Panhellenic and local myths as a means of political propaganda on the
pedimental compositions of the 4th century B.C. Peloponnesian temples
Franca Landucci (Università Cattolica, Milan)
The Sanctuary of the Great Gods at Samothrace in the early Hellenism
Jacek Rzepka (Warsaw University)
Federal cults and popular religion in Hellenistic Aetolia
14.00-16.00
16.00- 19.30
17.45-18.00
Coffee Break
2. Local and panhellenic sanctuaries
Lunch
Afternoon Session
Chair: Mark Munn
9.30-14.00
Morning Session
4. Texts and authors
Chair: Ellen Millender
Antiopi Argyriou-Casmeridis (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Arete in a religious context: civic values and the language of approbation
in Hellenistic honorary decrees
Michael Lipka (University of Patras)
Hellenistic Ruler Cult versus Delphi in Plutarch
Michael Nerdahl (Bowdoin College)
War and the Lawgiver: The Transformative Role of Religion in Plutarch’s Lycurgus-Numa
11.00-11.30
Coffee Break