Macedonia and Sparta: A Tale of Two Kingdoms in the Hellenistic Period - Day 2nd

Program

Session I: Historical perspectives Chair: Paul Christesen (Dartmouth College)

• 10.00-10.20 Ioannis Xydopoulos, “Heracles as a common ancestor: a tale of three states”
• 10.20-10.40 Panagiotis P. Iossif, “Between Leuctra and Chaeronea. Boeotia as middle ground between Macedonia and Sparta: a prelude on things to come”
• 10.40-11.00 Ioanna Kralli, “Why did Sparta remain independent until 192 B.C.?”
• 11.00-11.40 Discussion and coffee break

Session II: Piety and impiety Chair: Paschalis Paschidis (National Hellenic Research Foundation)

• 11.40-12.00 Manolis Voutiras, “The spread of the cult of Isis and Sarapis in Macedonia: the case of the “Sarapieion”” of Thessalonica”
• 12.00-12.20 Annelies Cazemier, “The ‘impiety’ of kings reassessed: Philip V, Nabis and Rome”
• 12.20-12.40 Discussion 2 Lunch for speakers and Chairs

Session III: Public spaces Chair: Bonna D. Wescoat (American School of Classical Studies)

• 2.30-2.50 Athanasia Kyriakou, Alexandros Tourtas, Daphne Maikidou-Putrino, “Vergina/Aigai: modelling the public space during the Hellenistic period in the first capital of the Macedonian kingdom”
• 2.50-3.10 Elisavet-Bettina Tsigarida, Lisa Nevett, Stratos Nanoglou, David Stone, “Hellenistic Pella as a dynamic urban environment: new investigations by the Ephorate of Antiquities of Pella in collaboration with the University of Michigan”
• 3.10-3.30 Nikos Akamatis, “Bathing habits in the Hellenistic period: Macedonia and the Peloponnese”
• 3.30-4.20 Discussion and coffee break
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• 4.20-4.40 Λεωνίδας Β. Σουχλέρης, «Το βόρειο τμήμα της κοιλάδας του Ευρώτα στους ελληνιστικούς χρόνους και η συνάντηση με τους Μακεδόνες»

Session IV: Fortifications Chair: Manolis Voutiras (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

• 5.00-5.20 Luke Madson, “La(a)s and the problem of Hellenistic fortifications in Lakonia”
• 5.20-5.40 Discussion 8.00 Dinner for speakers and Chairs