Chaeronea, August 338 BC: A state of the question
INTERNATIONAL HYBRID CONFERENCE
FEBRUARY 28 UNTIL MARCH 1, 2024
THE CONFERENCE
The conference, entitled “Chaeronea, August 338 BC: A state of the question”, will examine, through the research of leading experts, archaeologists and historians, the way in which the battle between the armies of the Macedonians and the Greek cities of the south took place, as well as aspects of the commemoration of the battle by the victors and the defeated.
Leading experts from major academic institutions share the results of their research on the battle that gave birth to the Hellenistic world, the ‘new world’ that was to define, in large part, the way we still see the world today.
INFO
Dates
Thursday 29/2: 11:00 – 19:50
Friday 01/3: 10:00 – 16:00
Free admission
The Conference will be held in English
Live Streaming
Registration implies to all 3 days of the conference.
Tickets
Venue
Auditorium, 5th floor
Important note: The keynote lecture on February 29 by Maria Liston will take place at the Cotsen Hall, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Anapiron Polemou 9.
PARTICIPANTS
Director for the Curation of the National Archive of Monuments
Sophia Zoumpaki
Research Director, Institute of Greek and Roman Antiquity, National Hellenic Research Foundation
Panagiotis Iossif
Scientific Director, Museum of Cycladic Art – Professor of Ancient Numismatics, Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands
Anastasios Kakamanoudis
PhD Archaeologist, Ephorate of Antiquities of Imathia
Kyriaki Kalliga
PhD Archaeologist, Ephorate of Antiquities of Boeotia
Angeliki Kottaridi
Honorary Ephor of Antiquities, Ministry of Culture
Elena Kountouri
Director of Prehistoric and Classic Antiquities, Ministry of Culture
Athanassia Kyriakou
Assistant Professor of Classical Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Ioannis Bogris
Army Officer, Military Historian, PhD Candidate in Modern and Contemporary Greek History, University of Athens
Olga Palagia
Emeritus Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of Athens
Nikolaos Papazarkadas
Director, Section of Greek and Roman Antiquity of the Institute of Historical Research
Nikos Petrocheilos
PhD Archaeologist, Ephorate of Antiquities of the City of Athens
Elisavet P. Sioumpara
PhD Archaeologist, Head, Acropolis Restoration Service, Hellenic Ministry of Culture
Fappas Ioannis
Assistant Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki – Scientific Director, Museum of Cycladic Art
Alexandra Charami
Director of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Boeotia
Athina Chatzidimitriou
Head of the Department for the Administration of the Historical Archive of Antiquities and Restorations
University of Geneva, Switzerland
Margherita Bonanno
Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of Rome
Raimon Graells y Fabregat
Professor of Archaeology, University of Alicante
Peter Krentz
Chair and W.R. Grey Professor of Classics, Professor of History, Davidson College
Maria Liston
Professor of Anthropology, University of Waterloo, Canada
Thierry Lucas
Assistant Professor, Université Picardie Jules Verne
John Ma
Professor of Classics, Columbia University
James Romm
James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics, Bard College, Annandale
Rémi Saou
Assistant Professor, University of Grenoble Alpes
THE EXHIBITION
Τhe exhibition explores one of the most important historical events of Greek antiquity – the battle of Chaeronea that brought Alexander the Great onto the political stage and laid the foundations for the creation of the modern world.
It highlights the importance the Battle of Chaeronea had in ancient times, at the transition from the Classical to the Hellenistic period. The latter became an era in which Greek civilization was dominant for centuries and laid the foundations of what we call the Western world. The theme is the battle that opposed the Macedonian army of Philip II against that of the allied Greek cities of southern Greece – and in particular the Sacred Band of Thebes and the army of Athens – a conflict that for the first time brought the eighteen-year-old Alexander to the front line of history: Alexander who was soon to conquer the world with his great campaigns in Asia.
