Upcoming
HelleNET Seminar Series
We would like to draw your attention to your HelleNET Seminar Series 2026-2027 schedule.
All seminars take place on Mondays @ 18:00 -19:00 CET.
All seminars will be held online via Zoom.
The Zoom link for the reoccurring HelleNET Seminar Series is:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82307524754?pwd=wQ8HzHAh6FG8yWjacunEqOscR2vAvL.1
This series spotlights the research of PhDs and ECRs who focus on Hellenistic studies. HelleNET seeks to foster the emergence of an international and interdisciplinary community engaged with Hellenistic studies and to provide a forum for discussion. We hereby invite you to our featured seminar series.
Scouring the Pnyx (and the σκηνάς): An Ancient Scholion to Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae
Sergio Traversa | PhD Candidate | Università degli Studi Roma Tre
Seminar Chair: Dr. Pietro Berardi (Università degli Studi di Bari ‘Aldo Moro’)
Describing the Indescribable: Callimachus, Iambus 6 and Phidias' Statue of Zeus
Antonio Papapicco | PhD Candidate | Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Seminar Chair: Dr. Benjamin Acosta-Hughes (The Ohio State University)
The Kynomorphism of Anubis in Iconography and Cult: Between Animal and Human, Between Egypt and Greece
Wojciech Mazur, PhD Candidate, University of Liverpool
θάλαττα and Beyond: Xenophon and the Peoples of the Black Sea Descent
Giorgi Barnabishvili, PhD Candidate, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University
Reading Theocritus Through Intratextuality and Gender: Critical Approaches to a Translation and Commentary on Ten Idylls
Dr. Leonor Hernandez, Postdoc, National Autonomous University of Mexico
Seminar Chair: Professor Ivana Petrovic (University of Virginia)
Carthage and the Hellenistic Western Mediterranean: Carthaginian Silver Coinage in the Context of Siculo-Punic Interactions
Dirk Vervenne, PhD Candidate, University of Groningen
The Evolution of Cremation: from the Hellenistic to Roman times
Panagiota Bantavanou, PhD Candidate, Democritus University of Thrace
Leonidas of Tarentum as a Hellenistic Poet
Dr. Davide Massimo, FWO Junior Postdoctoral Fellow, Ghent University
Seminar Chair: Regina Höschele (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Callimachus and Cleanthes on Zeus: Poetry, Theology, and Competition
Zachary Haines, PhD Candidate, University of Virginia
Between the Peripatos and the Suda: Tracing Hellenistic Biographical Traditions
Dr. Claudia Nuovo, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of the Republic of San Marino
Seminar Chair: Prof. Rosa Otranto (University of Bari Aldo Moro)
οἷα ἐκ τριόδου: The Confluence of Magic and Medicine in Graeco-Egyptian Alchemical Practice
Mary Curwen, PhD Candidate, Yale University
The Critical Agenda in the Scholia to Apollonius Rhodius: Rhetoric, Terminology and 'Silences'
Dr. Lisa Doyle, Visiting Fellow at the Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin
The Rhetoric of Hellenistic Inscriptions
Dr. Antiopi Argyriou | Independent Researcher
Seminar Chair: Prof. Lene Rubinstein (Royal Holloway University of London)
Dialectics of Power: Negotiating Political Change in Hellenistic Greece
Dr. Manolis Pagkalos | Associate Professor | Zhejiang A&F University
Simaetha’s affective topography and female readers in Theocritus’ Idyll 2
Vasileios Dimoglidis | PhD Candidate | University of Cincinnati
Seminar Chair: Prof. Ivana Petrovic (University of Virginia)
A praise that does not praise the king: Procopius’ proem to the Buildings
Riccardo Stigliano | PhD Candidate | Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck
Seminar Chair: Gianfranco Agosti (Università di Pisa)
ArgoMaps: Digital Mapping and Cartography in Apollonius’ Argonautica
Dr. Camilla Basile | University of Virginia
Chair: Dr. Annette Harder | University of Groningen
Hellenistic Biography and the Shaping of Tradition
Bruno D. Alfonzo | PhD Candidate | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (Netherlands) and Universidad Nacional de San Martín (Argentina)
Augustin Roche-Leveque
The Establishment of the Egyptian Currency System under Ptolemy I Soter (323-282 BC)
Dr. Laura Bottenberg
Of Birds and Praise: Rhetoric and Literary Criticism in Callimachus’ 4th Iambus
Valeria Annunziata
The Textual Tradition of Aratus’ Phaenomena: Recent Discoveries and New Insights
Thomas Nelson
Mothers or Wives? Divinised Queens in the Ptolemaic, Seleucid and Attalid Kingdoms
Antonio Papapicco
Hellenistic Polymetry: Between Innovation and Experimentalism
Antonio Papapicco is a PhD Candidate in Classics at Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa, Italy).
Chair: Prof. Benjamin Acosta-Hughes (Ohio State University)
Carlo Lualdi
East-West Battle Models: A Branching Entanglement of Artistic Media Across Asia Minor, Greece, Macedonia, Magna Graecia and Etruria (IV-III BCE)
Chair: Dr Conor Trainor (University College Dublin)