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15 May 2025 Start
16 May 2025 End
Spain University of Seville / University Pablo de Olavide and online

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Emperor Worship in the Greek East

May 15-16, 2025

The colloquium Emperor Worship in the Greek East: Cults in the Hellenophone provinces of the Roman Empire will be held in Seville (Spain) on 15th-16th May CET, at the University of Seville and University Pablo de Olavide. Please find the program here below.

Those of you interested in following the colloquium online will be most welcome; please send an email to [email protected] and we will send you the link.

PROGRAM

Thursday 15th May

9.15-10.00: Welcome and introduction
Fernando Lozano (Universidad de Sevilla)
Francesco Camia (Università degli Studi “La Sapienza” di Roma)
Elena Muñiz Grijalvo (Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla)
Juan Manuel Cortés Copete (Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla)

Session 1

10.00-10.35  Carmen Alarcón (Universidad de Sevilla): Imperial cult in the Roman World: Concept, approaches, difficulties

10.35-11.10 Fernando Lozano (Universidad de Sevilla): The imperial cult in the province of Achaia

11.10-11.45 Rocío Gordillo Hervás (Universidad Pablo de Olavide) – Fernando Lozano (Universidad de Sevilla): A council common to all Greeks: Panhellenic federal cults with seats in Achaia

11.45-12.20: Jessica Piccinini (Universidad de Macerata): Imperial cult in Epirus and in the North-West Greece

Session 2

14.30-15.05  Elias Sverkos (Universidad de Tesalónica): The Imperial cult in Macedonia

15.05-15.40  Maria-Gabriella G. Parissaki (National Hellenic Research Foundation. Institute of Historical Research): The imperial cult in Thrace. Political realities and cultural responses

15.40-16.15 Giorgos Mitropoulos (Universidad de Creta): Cults for the Roman emperors in Cappadocia

Session 3

16.45-17.20: Domenico D’Aco (Italian Ministry of Culture): The imperial cult in Galatia

17.20-17.55: Denise Reitzenstein (Universidad de Munich): Emperor worship in Lycia (and Pamphylia)

Friday 16th May

Session 4

9.30-10.05   Emanuela Borgia (Universidad de Roma “La Sapienza”): The imperial cult in Roman Cilicia

10.05-10.40  Takashi Fujii (Universidad de Kioto): Imperial cult in Roman Cyprus. Its cultic agency in a historical perspective

10.40-11.15: Martha W. Bowsky (Universidad del Pacífico, Stockton, California): Emperor worship on Crete

Session 5

11.45-12.20  Angella Cinalli (Universidad de Roma “La Sapienza”): The imperial cult in Cyrenaica

12.20-12.55  Beatrice de Faveri (Universidad de California Berkeley): By divine right: The ruler’s cult in Egypt

12.55-13.30: Barbara Burrell (Universidad de Cincinnati): Imperial honors versus imperial cult in Judaea and Greater Syria

Session 6

15.30-16.05: Gabrielle Frija (University Gustave Eiffel): 40 years after Simon Price, a look at the imperial cult in Asia

16.05-16.40: Marco Vitale (Universidad de Zurich): Priesthood and other high officers within the provincial Koiná

16.40-17.15: Elena Muñiz (Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla): Imperial processions in the Greek East

Poster Session
17:45-18:15: Emperor Worship in the Greek East: New approaches and perspectives. Works in progress
Esperanza Ródenas (Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla): Statues in the perception of the emperor and imperial power In Roman Egypt

Pablo Rodríguez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid): Individualización e innovación religiosa como estrategias
bottom-up en el culto imperial de Cirene

Manuel Ruiz Román (Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla): Tiberius Claudius Novius and the cult of Apollo in imperial Roman Athens and Delos

Closing session
18.15-18.45: Concluding remarks: The imperial cult in the Greek East
Francesco Camia (Universidad de Roma “La Sapienza”)
Fernando Lozano (Universidad de Sevilla)