Seminars, Events, and Recordings

Seminar Programme for 2024/25:

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1. Tuesday 15th October 2024, 5 pm (UK) – Felipe Soza, ‘From Empire to Kingdom: Reconceiving the Antigonid State after Cynoscephalae’.  Recording of Felipe Soza
2. Tuesday 10th December 2024, 5 pm (UK) – Sophia Kremydi, ‘Why produce autonomous coinages under the Antigonid Kingdom?’ Recording of Sophia Kremydi
3. Wednesday 22nd January 2025, 5 pm (UK) – Graham Wrightson on his book, The Third Macedonian War and the Battle of Pydna: Perseus’ Neglect of Combined-arms Tactics and the Real Reasons for the Roman Victory (2023)  Recording of Graham Wrightson
4. Tuesday 25th February 2025, 5 pm (UK) – HYBDRID seminar (Southampton and online), Maria Stamatopoulou ‘Demetrias and its painted tombstones: self-representation in an Antigonid port city’ [Not recorded at request of the speaker]
5. Tuesday 11th March 2025, 5 pm (UK) – Kalliopi Chatzinikolaou, ‘Ancestral Macedonian Cults through the Minting of the Antigonids and their Predecessors: Possibilities of a Combination with the Cult of the Hero Horseman’ Recording of Kalliopi Chatzinikolaou
6. Tuesday 8th April 2025, full-day (UK) – HYBRID workshop (University of Exeter and online), “Ancient Medicine in Macedonia and Northern Greece: New Approaches to the Classical and Hellenistic Periods”. A joint event between the Antigonid Network and Rebecca Flemming (Exeter).
   • Recording 1
   • Recording 2
   • Report/blog
7. Tuesday 20th May 2025, 5 pm (UK) – Session for PhD candidates researching Antigonid-related projects.
   1. Hannah Edwards (Michigan) “Herakles in Hellenistic and Roman Macedonia”
   2. Phillip Höhre (Marburg) “Crisis, survival, adaptation – Antigonos III Doson, Macedon, and the Aegean world”.
   3. Recording
8. Tuesday 17th June, 2-5 pm (UK) – Roundtable: “Past, Present, and Future Research on the Antigonids”. 

There is great momentum in research on the Antigonids, the dynasty of descendants of Antigonos who established themselves in the heartland of ancient Macedonia. Important publications in recent years include works on individual Antigonid rulers (D’Agostini 2019, Wheatley and Dunn 2020, Waterfield 2021, Nicholson 2023, Worthington 2023), commentaries of key texts (Landucci 2021, Rose forthcoming), studies of coinage (Kremydi 2018, Panagopoulou 2020, Hochard 2024), and inscriptions (e.g., Hatzopoulos 1996, 2021, Mari 2018, 2019, Paschidis et al. 2023). Increasingly, essential wider thematic studies are also being undertaken, on topics such as the Antigonid army and garrisons (Chrysafis forthcoming) and the Antigonid empire (Wallace, Soza, both forthcoming). The Antigonid Network has been running its yearly programme of online seminars since 2020-2021 and is now in its fifth year of activity. Research on the Antigonids is no longer just emerging, but firmly establishing itself.  

Now is a good moment, therefore, to reflect and consider where research on the Antigonids has taken us so far and where it could go next, beyond 2025. This online roundtable aims to provide a platform for this discussion, to bring together members of the Antigonid Network and interested researchers across disciplines, and to establish what the key issues and challenges in ongoing and future research on the Antigonids and Antigonid Macedonia are. 

Roundtable Programme: 

2.00-2.20 pm – Introduction (Emma Nicholson, Annelies Cazemier) 

2.20-3.20 pm – Session 1. The Antigonids: Defining a Dynasty (Chair: Emma Nicholson) 

Short papers by: Pierre Bourrieau, Felipe Soza 

(10-minute break) 

3.30-4.30 pm – Session 2. Placing the Antigonids in Context (Chair: Annelies Cazemier) 

Short papers by: Yiannis Xydopoulos, Zosia Archibald  

(5-minute break) 

4.30-5.00pm – Conclusions and Next Steps 

Past Seminars & Recordings

2023/24:

• Charalampos Chrysafis, ‘Antigonid Garrisons in Greek Poleis after 301 BCE’: Recording of Charalampos Chrysafis
• Zosia Archibald, ‘The Antigonids and their northern borders: insights from the archaeological evidence in Macedonia and Thrace.’ Recording of Zosia Archibald (note, discussion deliberately not recorded)
• Thomas Rose, ‘Thebes and the Early Antigonids’: Recording of Thomas Rose
• Pierre Bourrieau, ‘Philip V and his coinage. New historical elements from a numismatic point of view’: Recording of Pierre Bourrieau
• Elizabeth Foley, ‘The Antigonids, Delos and the Cyclades’: Recording of Elizabeth Foley
• Charlotte Dunn, “A retrospective psychoanalysis of Demetrius the Besieger” – Hybrid seminar: Recording of Charlotte Dunn

2022/23:

• Annelies Cazemier, ‘Antigonid kings and Greek sanctuaries’: Recording of Annelies Cazemier
• Monica D’Agostini, ‘Philip V, Messene and Aratus’ Panhellenic Dream’: Recording of Monica D’Agostini 
• Kostas Buraselis, ‘Remarks on a royal funeral at Salamis (Cyprus)’: Recording of Kostas Buraselis
• Sofia Kravaritou, ‘Thessaly and the Antigonids: insights into Hellenistic religion in context’: Recording of Sofia Kravaritou
• Emma Nicholson, on her book, (2023) Philip V of Macedon in Polybius’ Histories: Politics, History and Fiction, OUP: Recording of Emma Nicholson
• Shane Wallace, ‘Civic Responses to Macedonian Dual Monarchy from the Argeads to the Antigonids’: Recording of Shane Wallace

2021/22:

• Robin Waterfield on his book, (2021) The Making of a King. Antigonus Gonatas of Macedon and the Greeks, University of Chicago Press: Recording of Robin Waterfield
• Francesco Ferrara on his book, (2020) Basileus e Basileia. Forme e luoghi della regalità macedone, Edizioni Quasar: Recording of Francesco Ferrara
• Manuela Mari on “Interactions between Antigonid kings and local authorities” (epigraphy): Recording of Manuela Mari
• Franca Landucci on her book, (2021) Diodoro Siculo. Biblioteca storica. Libri XIX-XX: Recording of Franca Landucci
• Yiannis Xydopoulos, on “Philip III: a puppet king”: Recording of Yiannis Xydopoulos
• Paschalis Paschidis on “City, ethnos and king in Antigonid Macedonia: the evidence from the new asylia decrees”: Recording of Paschalis Paschidis
  • Handout

2020/2021:

• Charlotte Dunn & Pat Wheatley on their book, Demetrius the Besieger (2020): Recording of Seminar, Wheatley & Dunn
• Monica D’Agostini on her book, The Rise of Philip V (2019): Recording of Seminar, D’Agostini
• Peter Van Alfen on The Antigonid Coins Online project: Recording of Seminar, Van Alfen
• Katerina Panagopoulou on her book, Τhe Early Antigonids: Coinage, Money and the Economy (2021): Recording of Seminar, Panagopoulou
• Olga Palagia, on Aspects of Antigonid Portraiture: Recording of Seminar, Palagia
• Chrysanthi Kallini, on pottery in Antigonid Macedonia: Recording of Seminar, Kallini

Other Past Events:

• Day-School: Kings, Queens and Cities. An informal day-school with Sheila Ager. 30th April 2019. The University of Exeter.
• Conference: Macedonia After Alexander: the Antigonids and their Kingdom, 8th June 2018. The University of Exeter.
• Day-School: Dynastica Hellenistica. An informal day-school with Pat Wheatley. 17th November 2017. The University of Exeter.