Approaching the Hellenistic World
A one-day workshop on Hellenistic literature, history, and archaeology at Trinity College Dublin, Wednesday 27th April
9:30-11:00 – Panel 1: Literary Responses to the Hellenistic World
Chair: Shane Wallace
Brian McGing: Hellenistic Kings in Appian’s Roman History
Yuan He: The Dynamics in the Relationship between Josephus and his Graeco-Roman Readers
Alastair Daly: Demosthenes and Athenian Oratory in Herodas Mimiamb 2
11:00-11:15 – Break
11:15-12:45 – Panel 2: Apollonius of Rhodes and the Argonautica
Chair: Giorgos Papantoniou
Martine Cuypers: Kings Cruel and Kind in Apollonius’ Argonautica
Lisa Doyle: Citing Hellenistic Authors in the Scholia on Apollonius’ Argonautica
Jeremy Lam: The Gift and Curse of Phineus: an Intertextual Study of Apollonius’ Argonautica 2.178-497 and the Homeric Hymn to Apollo
12:45-13:45 – Lunch
13:45-15:15 – Panel 3: Space and Place in the Hellenistic Mediterranean
Chair: Brian McGing
Samantha Sink: Going the Distance: Hellenistic Geography
Andrew Hill: An Alternative Reading of Hanno the Carthaginian’s failed coup (ca. 352-347)
Dermot Grant: Using Social Network Analysis to Construct and Track Change in Commercial Connections from the Archaic to the ‘Hellenistic’ Period
15:15-15:30 – Break
15:30-17:00 – Panel 4: Hellenistic Kings and Queens
Chair: Martine Cuypers
Shane Wallace: Plataea between Macedon and Rome
Giorgos Papantoniou: Political Economies and Imperial Integration: The Importance of the Arsinoe Cult in Shaping Ptolemaic Power
Elizabeth Foley: Kings at Keos