Jean-Pierre Vernant Days

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