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04/24/2025 05:30 PM ISAW Lecture Hall
The forepart of a stag emerges from the curving body of this gilt silver rhyton. The eyes and the outstretched legs heighten the realistic effect of the stag

Rostovtzeff Lecture Series: Power at Hand: Luxury and the Contestation of Political Identities in Hellenistic Asia and the Post-Achaemenid Iranian World

Lecture 2: Tryphic Warfare and Scriptive Things

Matthew P. Canepa

This lecture will take place in person at ISAW. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. This lecture focuses on the role of luxury objects and spectacles as deployed by the Seleucids in their conflicts the Antigonids, Ptolemids, Greco-Bactrians, Arsacids and later the Romans.
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