The Tombros Conference on Hellenistic Monarchies will take place at the Penn State University on April 24-25, 2015. It is organized by the Department of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies. All lectures are free and open to the public.

Papers presented by title

Thomas Brüggemann (University of Freiburg): “The Establishment of Macedonian Rule in Outer Iran (Turkestan) and the Role and Status of the Local Elites (4/3 cent. BC.)”

Christelle Fischer-Bovet (University of Southern California & Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW Madison): “Ptolemaic Imperialism in Lycia, Pamphylia and Cilicia”

Giorgos Papantoniou (Trinity College, Dublin): “Interactions between old and new: the transition from Classical to Hellenistic period in Cyprus”

Salvatore Vacante (German Archaeological Institute, Munich): “Presbyteroi and Neoteroi: Alketas, the Pisidians and the Macedonian Rule in Southern Asia Minor”