Trinity Hellenistic Study Day V
A one-day workshop on the Hellenistic world at Trinity College Dublin. Thursday 21st May 2026
9:45 – Welcome and Opening
10:00-11:30 – Panel 1: History and Economy
Chair: Lisa Doyle
10:00-10:30: Shane Wallace, Greek Freedom Texts from the Temple of Hera Lakinia at Kroton
10:30-11:00: Dermot Grant, Was the Hellenistic Economy Primitive or Modern?
11:30-11:30: Andrew Hill, The Theban and Carthaginian Sacred Bands
11:30-11:45 – Break
11:45-12:45 – Panel 2: Argonautic Adventures
Chair: Andrew Hill
11:45-12:15: Martine Cuypers, A Tale of Two Argonauticas
12:15-12:45: Lisa Doyle, Egypt and Origin Stories in the Scholia to Apollonius’ Argonautica
12:45-13:45 – Lunch
13:45-15:15 – Panel 3: Literature and Culture
Chair: Caroline Montel
13:45-14:15: Boris Kayachev, How did Jesus Pronounce his Name in Greek?
14:15-14:45: Alastair Daly, Something Funny.
14:45-15:15 – Break
15:15-16:15 – Panel 4: Polybian Themes
Chair: Dermot Grant
15:15-15:45: Caroline Montel, Polybius and the Moral Grammar of Roman Intervention: The First Illyrian War as a Narrative Precedent for Later Accounts of Roman Foreign Policy
15:45-16:15: Brian McGing, Polybius and the Constitutions of the United States and Great Britain
16:15-16:30 – Final Comments and End

