Cleopatra And The End of the Hellenistic World Academic Symposium

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Friday, October 29 and Saturday, October 30, 2010
The Franklin Institute
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology & Anthropology

To what extent did the Hellenistic world of Cleopatra actually fall after the defeat at Actium? This conference will address the issue of political endings and cultural continuity to investigate whether the demise of Cleopatra should be used as an allegory for the end of the Hellenistic world or whether this arbitrary modern separation of historical from cultural periods merely emphasises breaks where there may well have been continuity.

The conference will be held in Philadelphia during the exhibition Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt at The Franklin Institute. Conference attendees are invited to join an exhibition tour on the first conference day.

DAY 1: The Franklin Institute | Demonstration Theater
222 North 20th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103

10:30-12:00 Exhibition Tour
Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen Of Egypt

14:00-18:00 Symposium
Session: Cleopatra, Egypt and the Hellenistic World

DAY 2: University of Pennsylvania | Rainey Auditorium
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

10:00-18:30 Symposium
Morning session: Continuity and discontinuity in Roman Alexandria
Post-lunch session: Continuity and discontinuity in the wider Hellenistic world

Conference Fee:
Regular: $25
Student: $10
Fee includes access to exhibition.

To Register:
Call 215.448.1254, daily 9:00AM-5:00PM

Note for Press:
Media is welcome. Please contact katrin.wollgast@salaction.de
Tel. (011) + 49 + 4022658322

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Organised by the Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology, University of Oxford and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Dr Damian Robinson and Professor David Silverman
with support from the Hilti Foundation