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Comparing Ancient Autocracies: An Interdisciplinary seminar on Kingship
Type
: Seminar Series
Timing
: Fridays at 5 pm
Organising department
:
Brasenose College
Friday 29 April 2016
17:00
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Autocracy and Kingship: "Caesar, Augustus, Emperor, King: Understanding the Principate" AND "From Tyrant to King: Agathokles of Syracuse"
Chris de Lisle
,
Pan Christoforou
Friday 6 May 2016
17:00
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Autocracy in Literature: "The dual inspiration of Hesiod's ideal rulers" AND "Tacitus Principate"
LaRae Ferguson
,
Bram Ten Berge
Friday 13 May 2016
17:00
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Religion and Autocracy: "Legitimating Papal Authority in Late Antiquity" AND "Kings in Rabbinic literature"
David Barritt
,
Joshua Blackorsky
Friday 20 May 2016
17:00
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Psychology of the Autocrat: "Alexander the Great King thus says"
Giustina Monti
Friday 27 May 2016
17:00
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Women as Autocrats: "The characterization of women as regents and/or autocrats during Egypt's Old Kingdom" AND "Agrippina"
Julia Hamilton
,
Katharine Burnett
Friday 3 June 2016
17:00
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Autocracy across cultural boundaries: "Kingship in ancient Cyprus" AND "Biblical and Mesopotamian Kingships"
Beatrice Pestarino
,
Martin krijgsman
Friday 10 June 2016
17:00
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Autocracy and State formation: "Did archaic Uruk have a king? Images accounting, and later literary tradition" AND "The rise of great men in the Balkans during 6th century"
Kate kelley
,
Rob Main
Friday 17 June 2016
17:00
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Available
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