Upcoming
HelleNET Seminar Series
We would like to draw your attention to your HelleNET Seminar Series 2025-2026 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.
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)
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)
Dialectics of Power: Negotiating Political Change in Hellenistic Greece
Dr. Manolis Pagkalos | Associate Professor | Zhejiang A&F University
The Rhetoric of Hellenistic Inscriptions
Dr. Antiopi Argyriou | Independent Researcher
Seminar Chair: Prof. Lene Rubinstein (Royal Holloway University of London)
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)
Clarifying Aristophanes from Aristophanes. An in-depth analysis of some scholia vetera in Aristophanem
Sergio Traversa | PhD Candidate | Università degli Studi Roma Tre
Seminar Chair: Dr. Pietro Berardi (Università degli Studi di Bari ‘Aldo Moro’)
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)