Dear all,
With this, we are happy to remind you of *the final Ancient World Seminar
of this academic year*. Today, 18 June 2018, dr. Rolf Strootman (Utrecht
University) will give a lecture on:
*The World of the Satraps: Court Culture, Competition and Connectivity in
the Achaemenid Aegean*
*Abstract*
The entangled world of satraps and local rulers in Asia Minor under the
Persian Empire has been rightly described as a West Achaemenid koinē. Also
the kingdom of Macedonia, a former Achaemenid satellite state, participated
in this world of interconnected, competing courts. This is shown by the
adoption of aristocratic practices and the accompanying art forms that
reflected the tastes of royal courts in Karia and Lykia (in particular
specific forms of hunting and ritualized feasting). There was in the fourth
century moreover far more entanglement between the poleis and these courts
than simplistic models of Greek ‘influence’ on the ‘East’ (or vice versa)
suggest. How were Karians, Lykians, Persians, Greeks, Macedonians and
others in the late Achaemenid Aegean connected and why did they develop
elite cultures that were each so distinct from each other and yet so very
much the same?
*Speaker*
Rolf Strootman is senior lecturer in ancient history at Utrecht University,
the Netherlands. He studied history and archaeology at the University of
Leiden and received his PhD for a study of dynastic courts in the
Hellenistic empires. He is the author of two monographs and various
articles on imperialism and court culture in the Near East and Iran,
particularly in the Hellenistic period. With M. J. Versluys he edited the
recent volume Persianism in Antiquity (2017). The current lecture is based
on his latest research project, “Iranians in the Hellenistic World”,
carried out at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles.
The session takes place in the Courtroom of the Faculty of Theology and
Religious Studies, Groningen, 16.15 – 17.30.
Join us for drinks afterwards!
--
Eelco Glas
PhD candidate in Theology and Religious Studies
on behalf of the CRASIS team
University of Groningen
CRASIS is the Groningen institute for Interdisciplinary Studies in Culture,
Religion and Society of the Ancient World. Follow CRASIS on Facebook
<https://www.facebook.com/rug.crasis> or find out more about us on
www.rug.nl/crasis.
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