Seminars, Events, and Recordings

Past Seminars & Recordings

1. Tuesday 11th November 2025, John Holton (Newcastle) on his two recently published books with Bloomsbury: Alexander’s Successors and the Creation of Hellenistic Kingship and Royal Traditions and the Consolidation of Power by Alexander’s Successors. Recording of Holton
2. Tuesday 3rd February 2026, Shane Wallace (editor) and contributors on the forthcoming special issue in Hermathena, “The Antigonid Empire in Greece”. Recording of contributors
3. Tuesday 3rd March 2026, Nikos Akamatis (Academy of Athens) on “The City of Pella, Macedonia, under the Antigonids.” Recording of Akamatis
4. Tuesday 5th May 2026, Vassilis Evangelidis (Athena Research Centre) “An Archaeology of Transition: From Antigonid to Roman Macedonia” Recording of Evangelidis
5. Tuesday 16th June 2026, Athanasia Kyriakou (Thessaloniki), “The sanctuary of Eukleia and the shaping of the public sphere in Aigai, the old capital of the Macedonian Kingdom” Recording of Kyriakou

2024/25:

1. Tuesday 15th October – Felipe Soza, ‘From Empire to Kingdom: Reconceiving the Antigonid State after Cynoscephalae’.  Recording of Felipe Soza
2. Tuesday 10th December – Sophia Kremydi, ‘Why produce autonomous coinages under the Antigonid Kingdom?’ Recording of Sophia Kremydi
3. Wednesday 22nd January– 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 – HYBRID seminar (Southampton & online), Maria Stamatopoulou ‘Demetrias and its painted tombstones: self-representation in an Antigonid port city’ [Not recorded at request of speaker]
5. Tuesday 11th March – 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, 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 – 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”.      Recording
8. Tuesday 17th June – Roundtable: “Past, Present, and Future Research on the Antigonids”. 
   • Programme

2023/24:

1. Charalampos Chrysafis, ‘Antigonid Garrisons in Greek Poleis after 301 BCE’: Recording of Charalampos Chrysafis
2. 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)
3. Thomas Rose, ‘Thebes and the Early Antigonids’: Recording of Thomas Rose
4. Pierre Bourrieau, ‘Philip V and his coinage. New historical elements from a numismatic point of view’: Recording of Pierre Bourrieau
5. Elizabeth Foley, ‘The Antigonids, Delos and the Cyclades’: Recording of Elizabeth Foley
6. Charlotte Dunn, “A retrospective psychoanalysis of Demetrius the Besieger” – Hybrid seminar: Recording of Charlotte Dunn

2022/23:

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

2021/22:

1. 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
2. Francesco Ferrara on his book, (2020) Basileus e Basileia. Forme e luoghi della regalità macedone, Edizioni Quasar: Recording of Francesco Ferrara
3. Manuela Mari on “Interactions between Antigonid kings and local authorities” (epigraphy): Recording of Manuela Mari
4. Franca Landucci on her book, (2021) Diodoro Siculo. Biblioteca storica. Libri XIX-XX: Recording of Franca Landucci
5. Yiannis Xydopoulos, on “Philip III: a puppet king”: Recording of Yiannis Xydopoulos
6. Paschalis Paschidis on “City, ethnos and king in Antigonid Macedonia: the evidence from the new asylia decrees”: Recording of Paschalis Paschidis          Handout

2020/2021:

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