The Hellenistic Peloponnese: New Perspectives

School of Archaeology and Ancient History

Registration to the International Ph.D. and Early Career Researchers conference “The Hellenistic Peloponnese: New Perspectives” is now open. The conference has been organized under the aegis of the School of Archaeology and Ancient History of the University of Leicester and will be held on May 6th, 2016.

Aims of the Conference and Titles of Papers

The Hellenistic Peloponnese, with its large number of states and regions, has occupied a significant place in historical and archaeological research: however, recent archaeological fieldwork and the use of new analyses and comparative approaches have broadened our views on this multi-faceted cultural and historical reality. The introduction of methodological approaches and paradigms from the realms of Social Sciences, International Relations, Law Studies and Psychology have offered new interpretative tools which enable us to find new answers to important historical issues such as the nature of the interactions between states situated inside and outside the Peloponnese and the perceptions of the past throughout the Hellenistic period.

Dr. Daniel Stewart, University of Leicester (Inventing the Hellenistic Peloponnese) and Professor Andrew Meadows, University of Oxford (Polybius and the Peloponnese: New Perspectives and Old) will present the keynote lectures. The conference’s web page [The Hellenistic Peloponnese: New Perspectives] has been updated with the abstracts of the selected papers. For your information, a list of speakers and papers is provided below:

• Dr. Daniel Stewart (University of Leicester) Inventing the Hellenistic Peloponnese
• James Lloyd (University of Reading/Exeter) The End of Lead Figurines in the Early Hellenistic Period at the Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia: Pb Isotope Analysis
• Jane Ainsworth (University of Leicester) Herakles on the Edge: Artistic Choices in Hellenistic Elis
• Dr. Gabriel Zuchtriegel (Archaeological Park of Paestum) Early Hellenistic Economies: Comparing the Peloponnese with Southern Italy
• Roumpini-Ioanna Charami (University of Nottingham) The Hellenistic Perioikoi: a Preliminary Insight into the Life and History of Perioikic Communities
• Chares Chrysafis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) Garrisons and ‘Tyrants’: Preliminary Remarks on the Antigonid rule in the Peloponnese
• Richard Evans (University of Leicester) Shock and Awe: Violence, Resistance and Terror within the Achaean Koinon
• Charlotte van Regenmortel (University of Leicester) The Consultant General: Spartan Military Leaders Abroad
• Professor Luigi Gallo (Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale") The Transformations of the Spartan Royalty in the Second Half of the Third Century B.C.
• Andrea Scarpato (University of Leicester) A de facto King: Cleonymus
• Krzysztof Zimny (University of Warsaw) Burden of the Past: Sparta in the Face of the Achaean Resurgence
• Dr. Stefania Gallotta (Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale") Argos in the Third Century BC
• Maciej Daszuta (University of Wrocław/Liverpool) Sparta in the Early Hellenistic Period: Backward or Well-Adjusted?
• Manolis Pagkalos (University of Leicester) The Histories of the Achaean League: Constructing Identities in the Early Hellenistic Peloponnese
• David Weidgenannt (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) ὑπόμνημα τῆς οἰκειότητος. A Present Past in Epidaurus and Athens (2nd – 1st century BC)
• Professor Andrew Meadows (University of Oxford) Polybius and the Peloponnese: New Perspectives and Old

The conference will run from 08:30am (Registration) to 18:00pm and it will be followed by a reception on campus. There will be an optional dinner after the reception at a local restaurant, for which there will be a small additional cost. The registration fee for the conference, which includes tea, coffee and lunch, is £15. We would invite you to register as soon as possible.

Registration can be reached via the University’s shop: [http://shop.le.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&deptid=7&catid=711&prodvarid=595].

For any inquiries, please do not hesitate to contact the Organising Committee via email or post.

• Jane Ainsworth [[log in to unmask]]
• Manolis Pagkalos [[log in to unmask]]
• Andrea Scarpato [[log in to unmask]]

School of Archaeology and Ancient History,

University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK

On behalf of the Organising Committee,

Manolis Pagkalos