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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Call for Papers: Ptolemy I Soter and the Transformation of Egypt 404-282 BC

Paul McKechnie reports:



From September 28 to 30 this year at Macquarie University, in Sydney, Australia, there will be a conference with title as in the subject line of this message.  The agenda will be to examine Egypt from the accession of Artaxerxes II to the death of Ptolemy I, i.e. to consider the 'long fourth century BC' in Egypt in a synthetic and interdisciplinary way. Keynote speakers will be Pierre Briant, Martina Minas and Dorothy Thompson.

The call for papers is now extended until 31 May.  Details are at this URL: http://www.acrc.mq.edu.au/