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| The Glory of Ancient Persia Ancient Persia was one of the great civilizations of the Near East and during the Achaemenid period, between 550 BC and 330 BC, ruled over a vast empire stretching from North Africa to the Indus Valley and from Central Asia to the Persian Gulf. This course will consider the extraordinary diversity of the empire, the great rulers, Cyrus, Darius and Xerxes and their highly sophisticated networks of power, their great monuments and palaces, and the well-known struggle with the Greeks, which culminated in the fall of Persepolis to Alexander the Great in 331BC. |
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| Tuesday 11 October 2005 | ||||
| 10.30am | ||||
| Visions of
Power in the Achaemenid Empire Professor Amelie Kuhrt, Department of Ancient Near Eastern History, University College London. |
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| 12 noon | ||||
| Royal Monuments
of Ancient Iran Lorna Oakes, Education Department, British Museum and Birkbeck College |
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| 1pm | ||||
| Lunch | ||||
| 2pm | ||||
| Darius I
in Egypt: How Much is Myth? Professor A.B. Lloyd, Department of Classics, Ancient History and Egyptology, University of Wales, Swansea |
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| Tuesday 18 October 2005 | ||||
| 10.30am | ||||
Virtuous
Greeks and Vicious Persians? The History of Graeco-Persian Relations |
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| 12 noon | ||||
| The Achaemenids
in the East Dr. Cameron Petrie, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge |
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| 1pm | ||||
| Lunch | ||||
| 2pm | ||||
| Persian Gardens:
Productive Paradise and Political Proposition Professor Christopher Tuplin, University of Liverpool |
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| Tuesday 25 October 2005 | ||||
| 10.30am | ||||
| Persepolis:
City of the Persians Dr. Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Department of Classics, University of Edinburgh |
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| 12 noon | ||||
| Achaemenid
Finds in the Land of the Golden Fleece Professor Michael Vickers, Ashmolean Museum and Jesus College, Oxford |
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| 1pm | ||||
| Lunch | ||||
| 2pm | ||||
| The Harem
and Royal Women Dr. Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Department of Classics, University of Edinburgh |
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| Tuesday 1 November 2005 | ||||
| 10.30am | ||||
| Alexander and the Persians
Dr. Maria Brosius, Reader in Ancient History, University of Newcastle |
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| 12 noon | ||||
| From Persepolis to the
Provinces: the Archaeology of Achaemenid Material Culture St John Simpson, Assistant Keeper, Department of the Ancient Near East, British Museum |
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| 1pm | ||||
| Lunch | ||||
| 2.30pm | ||||
| Visit to the exhibition at the British Museum, ‘Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Persia’. | ||||
| The cost
of the full course is £220. The cost of the morning lectures
only (lunch not included) is £125. The lectures will take
place at The Medical Society of London, To apply, please contact us. |
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