London Centre for the Ancient Near East
Seminar Series Autumn 2023
ACHAEMENIDS AND SELEUCIDS
In honour of the work of Amélie Kuhrt
Convened by Lindsay Allen and Mark Weeden. Mostly Mondays, 6.15pm in Lecture Theatre G6, UCL Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY, UK, except the last lecture in the series (Henkelman), see below.
There is no need to register to attend in-person, but if you want to attend online, please register with Eventbrite here.
Mon Oct. 16th Kathryn Stevens (Oxford): Hellenism revisited: the case of Babylonia
Kathryn Stevens’ handout will be available from this dropbox link at the latest by 5pm on October 16th.
Mon Oct. 30th Mateen Arghandehpour (UCL): Persian religion in the Greco-Persian Wars: the case of Athens
Online attendance at Mateen Arghandehpour’s lecture via Eventbrite here.
Mon. Nov. 20th Josef Wiesehöfer (Kiel): Cyrus, Mirrors of Princes, and Christoph Martin Wieland
Online Attendance at Josef Wiesehöfer’s lecture via Eventbrite here.
Mon. Dec. 4th Eleanor Robson and Parsa Daneshmand (UCL): Debts, dates and donkeys: exploring the archives of Achaemenid Kish
Thurs. Dec. 14th Wouter Henkelman (Paris): Achaemenid Babylonia and the building of Persepolis LOCATION: Senate House, G 35 – in collaboration with the Ancient History Seminar, Institute for Classical Studies.
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