• 9:15-9:30 Registration
• 9:30-10:00 Opening Remarks
H.E. Mr. Pierre Vaesen, Ambassador of H.M. the King of Belgians
Dr. Kris Tytgat, Director of the Netherlands Institute in Athens
Dr. Steven Soetens, Director of the Belgian School at Athens
• 10:00-12:30 Session 1: Royal/Imperial Cult: A la recherche
de la théorie du culte
Chair: professor Andrzej Chankowski, University of Lille-3/Ecole Française d’Athènes
- 10:00-10:40 Marlies P. Schipperheijn, University of Groningen Kings and scribes: ruler cult and treatises on kingship
- 10:40-11:20 Angelos Chaniotis, AllSoulsCollege, Oxford The ithyphallic hymn for Demetrios Poliorketes and Hellenistic religious mentality
- 11:20-11:50 Coffee Break
- 11:50-12:30 Ittai Gradel, Reading University Pagan Opposition to Emperor Worship
- 12:30-13:00 Discussion
• 13:00-14:30 Lunch Break
• 14:30-17:00 Session 2: Royal Hellenistic Cult: Dynastic Cases
Chair: professor Kostas Bouraselis, University of Athens
- 14:30-15:10 Hans Hauben, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Ptolémée et Bérénice, divinités cosmiques
- 15:10-15:50 Panagiotis P. Iossif, BelgianSchool at Athens/University of Liège Antiochos, le Grand Roi, le roi légitime, roi du monde, roi de Babylone…et Roi-Soleil? Aspects célestes du culte royal dans l’Orient séleucide
- 15:50-16:30 Hannah Cotton, The HebrewUniversity, Jerusalem Implications and consequences of the newly published Seleucid prostagma from 178 BCE concerning Koilē Syria and Phoinikē:Is there a Hasmonaean dimension?
- 16:30-17:00 Discussion
• 17:00-17:30 Coffee Break
• 17:30-19:15 Session 3: Royal Hellenistic Cult and Epikleses:Numismatics and Epigraphy
Chair: professor Antonio Invernizzi, University of Torino
- 17:30-18:10 François de Callataÿ, Bibliothèque Royale de Bruxelles – EPHE, Paris The pattern of royal epithets on Hellenistic coinages
- 18:10-18:50 Katerina Panagopoulou, University of Crete ‘Saviour’ Monarchs in Context: (Ab/)uses of the Title ‘Soter’ in the Hellenistic Period
- 18:50-19:15 Discussion
• 20:30 Reception at the Residence of H.E. Ambassador of H.M. the King of Belgians
Friday, November 2nd
• 9:20-13:00 Session 4: The Royal Cult in Comparison: Some Near Eastern Cases
Chair: professor François de Callataÿ, Bibliothèque Royale de Bruxelles – EPHE, Paris
- 9:20-10:00 Haim Gitler, The IsraelMuseumIdentities of the Indigenous Coinages of Palestine under Achaemenid Rule - The Dissemination of the Image of the Great King
- 10:00-10:40 Marc Garrison, TrinityUniversity, San Antonio By the Favor of Ahuramazdā: Kingship and the Divine in the Early Achaemenid Period
- 11:10-11:50 Claude Baurain, University of Liège La contribution des Teukrides aux cultes royaux de l’époque hellénistique
- 11:50-12:30 Antonio Invernizzi, University of Torino Royal Cult in Arsacid Parthia
• 12:30-13:00 Discussion
• 13:00-14:30 Lunch Break
• 14:30-17:00 Session 5: Imperial Worship in the East/Local Cases: Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt
Chair: professor Sofi a Aneziri, University of Athens
- 14:30-15:10 Emmanuel Voutiras, University of Thessaloniki Des honneurs divins pour Marc Antoine à Thessalonique?
- 15:10-15:50 Janneke de Jong, University of Amsterdam The impact of the Roman imperial cult in Egypt
- 15:50-16:30 Maria Kantirea, University of Cyprus Le caractère local du culte impérial: l’intégration des empereurs romains dans les traditions politico-religieuses des cités grecques
- 16:30-17:00 Discussion
• 17:00-17:30 Coffee Break
• 17:30-18:15 Concluding Remarks
Professor Andrzej Chankowski, University of Lille-3/Ecole