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04/23/2025 05:30 PM ISAW Lecture Hall
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Rostovtzeff Lecture Series: Power at Hand: Luxury and the Contestation of Political Identities in Hellenistic Asia and the Post-Achaemenid Iranian World

Lecture 1: A New Perso-Macedonian Material and Visual Culture of Power

Matthew P. Canepa

This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. This lecture begins with considering the role that luxury material played in creating politically useful subjectivities in the Achaemenid Persian Empire before turning to the formation of a new, competing traditions of luxury under the empire’s rivals and successors.
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