Hello everyone,

Here is the abstract for our first workshop of the fall quarter!

Remembering Military Disasters in Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece has provided no shortage of victory monuments, both material and literary. Less conspicuous are the ways the Greeks remembered military loss, defeat, and disaster. While the literary tradition, from Homer to Euripides, offers many meditations on the suffering of others in defeat, such as the Trojans and the Melians, the Greeks sometimes publicly reflected on and commemorated their own recent sufferings too. This presentation will consider some of the ways the Greeks marked military disasters, and the ways military disasters influenced Greek attitudes towards war.

Lecture Info:

Date: October 13
Time: 4:20pm CT
Location: Zoom (information will be sent to the list)

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If you have any questions, feel free to send me an email at egarciamolina@uchicago.edu

April 9: Paul Kosmin (Harvard)

The Making of the Southern Sea

April 23: Ami Huang (UChicago)

The Sheep, the Priestesses, and the Governor: A Case Study on Economic Outsourcing in Kassite Nippur

April 30: Karen Radner (Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München)

The Deportation of the Israelites in the Context of the Resettlement Policy of the Assyrian Empire

*THURSDAY* May 2, Haskell 315: Günther Schörner (Vienna)

Looking for Non-Elite Identities: Recent Fieldwork in Northern Tuscany

May 21: Larry Carrillo (UChicago)

January 15: Katherine Blouin (Toronto)

From the Boukoloi to John Cassian and beyond: Shifting landscapes and (un)wavering Identities in the ancient northeastern Nile delta

January 29: Jared Kreiner (UChicago)

Count Me Out: Census Revolts in the Roman Empire

MONDAY, February 11, *4:30 in Swift 403* (co-sponsered with Early Christian Studies): Ary Bryen (Vanderbilt)

The Judgment of the Provinces: Law, Culture, and Empire in the Roman East

February 12: Manuel Fernandez-Gotz (Edinburgh)

Changing Identities in times of Crisis: Reassessing the Roman conquest of Gaul

February 26 *4:00 pm*: Robert Marineau (UChicago)

Making It Manly: Literary Shaping of an Old Hittite King’s Reputation

March 12: Jordan Johansen (UChicago)

Honorary Decrees of the Ptolemaic Nesiotic Koinon

Tuesday, Oct 9, 3:30 PM: Douglas Boin (St. Louis University): “Constantine’s Fountain: On the Intersection of Identity, Art, and Power,” Classics 21

Tuesday, Oct 23, 3:30 PM: Brendan Hainline (UChicago): “sšw jsw: ‘Ancient Writings’ and Authenticity in Egyptian Texts,” Classics 21.

THURSDAY, Nov 8, 3:30 PM: Jennifer Finn (Marquette University), “One House Left Standing: Negotiating Dynastic Identity in the Conquest of Empire,” Classics 21

Tuesday, Nov 20, 3:30 PM: Mills McArthur (UChicago), “ΕΚ ΤΩΝ ΕΡΓ ΕΠΙ ΣΟΥΝ ΟΙΚ: Workplace as Occupation Title,” Classics 21

For more information, please contact the workshop coordinator, Tim Clark, tfclark@uchicago.edu

Dear Ancient Societies Workshop,

I hope you have all had a great beginning of the quarter! I’m excited to announce our fantastic line-up of speakers for the Winter quarter. All talks will take place in Classics 21 with a reception to follow.

Tuesday, January 16, 3:30 PM: Nick Venable (University of Chicago), “Failing Bodies and Monastic Endowments: Social Control in Coptic Wills and Donation Papyri.” Co-sponsored by the Early Christianity Workshop

Tuesday, January 30, 3:30 PM: Rhyne King (University of Chicago), “Land, Labor, and Violence in the Persian Empire

Tuesday, February 27, 3:30 PM: Kate Kreindler (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), “Consumption and Connectivity in pre-Roman Italy”

Tuesday, March 6, 6 PM: Jana Mynářová (Charles University, Prague), “Eloquent Words for the Pharao. Perspectives on the Amarna Letters”

I look forward to seeing you all soon and continuing our conversations from last quarter!

All best,

Jordan Johansen

Ph.D. Student, The University of Chicago

Program in the Ancient Mediterranean World

Department of Classics

For any questions or comments, you can contact me at jjohansen AT uchicago.edu.

Dear Ancient Societies Workshop participants,

Welcome back to a new academic year and to the autumn quarter of the Ancient Societies Workshop. I (Jordan Johansen) am the student coordinator for this year’s workshop, and Katie Kearns and Susanne Paulus are the faculty sponsors. We have an exciting group of talks lined up for this Autumn quarter with the theme “Social Networks.”  All talks will be held at 3:30 PM in Classics 21 with a reception following. All talks are on Tuesday, unless otherwise noted.

Sept. 26 – Thalia Lysen (University of Chicago), “Staging Kingship: A Case Study of Royal Ideology and Power in Hittite Anatolia”

Oct. 10 –  Eduardo Escobar (University of Chicago), “Networking Plants in Cuneiform Cultures: Empiricism and Scribal Hermeneutics”

Oct. 24 – Paul Vadan (University of Chicago), “Precedent, Collective Memory, and Risk in the Hellenistic Age”

Nov. 6 (Monday) – Ignazio Tantillo (Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale), “The Tetrarchs and the Treasures of the Temples” ***Location will be in Classics 110***

Nov. 21 – Joshua R. Vera (University of Chicago), “Sharing is Caring: The Association and Assimilation of Cults in Roman Athens”

I hope to see you all there!

Best,

Jordan Johansen

Ph.D. Student, The University of Chicago

Program in the Ancient Mediterranean World

Department of Classics

For any questions or comments, you can contact me at jjohansen AT uchicago.edu.

Dear Ancient Societies Workshop Participants,

We have an exciting schedule of speakers this spring continuing our theme of “Political Economies.”  All talks will be held at 3:30 pm in Classics 21.  All talks this quarter are on a Tuesday.

April 4 – Julie Hanlon (PhD Student, UChicago Anthropology and South Asian Languages and Civilizations) – “Jain Monks and Merchants in the Political Economy of Early Historic Tamil Nadu”

April 11 – Jordan Johansen (PhD Student, UChicago Program in the Ancient Mediterranean World) – “The Medinet Madi Paradox: The δεκάτη in the Hymns of Isidorus.”

April 25 – Prof. John Weisweiler (Assistant Professor, History, University of Maryland) – “Élite Formation, Roman Style: Violence, Predation and the Making of the Early Imperial Senate (c. 14-235 CE)”

May 2 – Prof. Muriel Debié (CNRS: Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes) –  “Jerusalem in the 7th c. : A Case of Divided Memories.”

May 9 –  Prof. Susanne Paulus (Assistant Professor of Assyriology, UChicago) –  “No Coins, No Silver but Gold (?) – How to Pay in Babylonia in 1200 BC.”

May 23 – Tim Clark (PhD Student, UChicago Program in the Ancient Mediterranean World) – “The Forum Augustum: Movement, Social Space, and A New Vision for Roman Foreign Policy”

May 30 – Thalia Lysen (PhD Student, UChicago Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations) – “Staging Kingship: A Case Study of Kings, Power and Ideology in Hittite Anatolia”

I hope to see you all there!

If you have any questions, please contact me at rhyne AT uchicago.edu.

Best,

Rhyne King

PhD Student, The University of Chicago

Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Ancient Near Eastern History

Dear Ancient Societies Workshop Participants,

Welcome back to Chicago and happy New Year!  We have an exciting schedule of speakers lined up for this quarter continuing the theme “Political Economies.”  All talks are in Classics 21 at 3:30pm.  All talks are on Tuesday, unless noted otherwise.

Jan. 10 – Dr. Eva Mol (Post-Doctoral Fellow, UChicago Classics) – “Making myth real, the agency of objects in Herodotus’ Histories: an archaeological inquiry”

Jan. 24 – Lara Fabian (PhD Student, University of Pennsylvania, Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World) – “Coins, Mints and Mountain Passes: Geospatial Modeling of Numismatic Communities in the South Caucasus”

Feb. 7 – Prof. Brian Muhs (Associate Professor of Egyptology, UChicago NELC) and Dr. Tasha Vorderstrasse (Research Associate, UChicago Oriental Institute) – “The State’s Role in Monetary Circulation in Achaemenid and Hellenistic Egypt and Bactria”

Feb. 14 – Prof. Wouter Henkelman (Maître de conférences ‘Mondes élamites et achéménides,’ École Pratique des Hautes Études) – “The empire at Persepolis: economy, society, religion”

Feb. 23 (Thursday) – Kassandra Jackson Miller (PhD Student, UChicago Program in the Ancient Mediterranean World) – “From Critical Days to Critical Hours: Galenic Refinements of Hippocratic Models”

Feb. 28 – Prof. Jonathan Hall (Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities and Professor in the Departments of History and Classics and the College, UChicago) – “Telesilla and her Afterlife”

Mar. 7 – David Perry (PhD Student, UChicago Program in the Ancient Mediterranean World) – “Classical Impressions of Ancient Law”

I hope to see you all there!

Best,

Rhyne King

PhD Student, University of Chicago

Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Ancient Near Eastern History

If you have any questions, you can contact me at rhyne AT uchicago.edu