Video archive
Graeco-Aegyptiaca, Season 5 (2025/2026)
Graeco-Aegyptiaca #5/2
‘The fabric of Hellenic civic life in Alexandria according to Strabo, Dio of Prusa, and Plutarch’
Talk by Lucia Athanassaki (University of Crete), 27. 11. 2025.
Graeco-Aegyptiaca #5/3
‘Sesostris, Sarapis and Sokar-Osiris: On Clemens Alexandrinus, Protrepticus 4,48, 4–6′
Talk by Alexandra von Lieven (Universität Münster)’
27. 01. 2026.
Graeco-Aegyptiaca #5/4
‘Crafting Individuality. Manufacturers’ Expertise and Customers’ Choice in Roman Egyptian Mask Workshops’
Talk by Asja Müller (CAU Kiel)
24. 02. 2026.
Graeco-Aegyptiaca #5/5
‘Terenouthis: Living and Dying in a Greco-Egyptian Village during the Roman Period’
Talk by Sylvain Dhennin (HISOMA, Lyon), 24. 03. 2026.
Graeco-Aegyptiaca #5/6
‘Jesus, Heal Your Handmaid, Who Wears Your Holy Name: Some Thoughts On Christian Amulets’
Talk by Ágnes Mihálykó (St Athanasius Greek Catholic Theological Institute), 2026. 04. 21.
Transcultural Histories Lectures 2025/2026
Writing Transcultural Histories in the Ancient Mediterranean
Nino Luraghi (University of Oxford), ‘Empires and the Myth of the Martial Race’
22 October 2025
Writing Transcultural Histories in the Ancient Mediterranean
Dr. Marco Santini (University of Edinburgh), ‘What Kind of Transcultural History for the Early Greek Polis? Seren – Tarwannis – Tyrannos Revisited‘
21 January 2026
Writing Transcultural Histories in the Ancient Mediterranean
Irad Malkin (Tel Aviv), ‘Migration and Foundation Myths of Ancient Hebrews and Greeks’
18 February 2026
Writing Transcultural Histories in the Ancient Mediterranean
Hannah Bash (University of Oxford), ‘Interactive Discourse: Orality and Materiality in an Ancient Blessing’
15 April 2026
Graeco-Aegyptiaca, Season 4 (2024/2025)
Graeco-Aegyptiaca #4/1
‘The Transfer of Circular Designs and Egyptian Images from Magical Gems to Late-Antique Thunderstones’
Talk by Christopher A. Faraone (University of Chicago), 22. 10. 2024.
Graeco-Aegyptiaca #4/2
‘The Egyptian Snake-Gods: Meaning and Use of a Series of Stone Stelai’
Talk by Richard Veymiers (Musée royal de Mariemont)
26. 11. 2024.
Graeco-Aegyptiaca #4/3
‘Religious Boundaries in Late Antique Lived Religion: A View from So-called Magical Sources’
Talk by Joseph E. Sanzo (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice)
21. 01. 2025.
Graeco-Aegyptiaca #4/6
‘Insights into scribal practices at Egyptian temple libraries from the hieratic-demotic copies of the Book of the Fayum’
Talk by Jaqueline Stock (Universität Leipzig), 29. 04. 2025.
Graeco-Aegyptiaca #4/7
‘Pindar, Herodotus and the Ram-God of Mendes’
Talk by Jessica Lightfoot (University of Birmingham), 20. 05. 2025.
Graeco-Aegyptiaca #4/8
‘The Egyptian Language in the Greek Magical Papyri: Loan-words, phrases, and Old Coptic passages’
Talk by Korshi Dosoo (Universität Würzburg), 24. 06. 2025.
Cosmic Magic Conference, June 2024
Cosmic Magic #1
Marina Escolano-Poveda (Liverpool) – Kim Ryholt (Copenhagen): ‘Demotic Insights on Hephaistion of Thebes’
03. 06. 2024.
Cosmic Magic #2
Alessandra Rochetti (Oxford): ʽThe Cartography of Magic in the Magical Papyri’
03. 06. 2024.
Cosmic Magic #4
M. Zellmann-Rohrer (Sydney): ʽEgyptian Astrological Manuals in Demotic and Greek’
04. 06. 2024.
Graeco-Aegyptiaca, Season 3 (2023/2024)
Graeco-Aegyptiaca #3/1
‘Penultimate thoughts: choliambic verse in Graeco-Roman Egypt and beyond’
Talk by Richard Hunter (University of Cambridge), 28. 11. 2023.
Graeco-Aegyptiaca #3/2
‘Greek soldiers in Saite Egypt: myths and realities’
Talk by Hans van Wees (University College London), 23. 01. 2024.
Graeco-Aegyptiaca #3/4
‘Deliberating in the open: the public areas of the Ptolemaic Egyptian temple as sites of politics and law’
Talk by Ian Moyer (University of Michigan), 26. 03. 2024.
Graeco-Aegyptiaca, Season 2 (2022/2023)
Graeco-Aegyptiaca #2/1
‘Seeing double: Visualizing creation on Graeco-Egyptian stone dishes’
Talk by Kata Endreffy (Palladion – Eötvös Loránd University), 25. 10. 2022.
Graeco-Aegyptiaca #2/2
‘Herodotus as an historian of religions and polytheism: the Egyptian matrix’
Talk by Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge (Collège de France, FNRS), 29. 11. 2022.
Graeco-Aegyptiaca #2/4
‘Composing Magical Formularies in Late Antique Egypt’
Talk by Raquel Martín-Hernández (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), 28. 02. 2023.
Graeco-Aegyptiaca #2/5
‘Egyptian Herakles and Syrian Aphrodite? Disentangling perceptions of Phoenician art and Religion in the Greek tradition’
Talk by Carolina López-Ruiz (University of Chicago), 25. 04. 2023.
Graeco-Aegyptiaca #2/6
‘Imagining a Greek Home for an Egyptian Goddess: Time, Landscape, and Architecture in Greek Sanctuaries to Isis’
Talk by Lindsey Mazurek (Indiana University, Bloomington), 30. 05. 2023.
Graeco-Aegyptiaca #2/7
‘Naukratis: new fieldwork and new results’
Talk by Alexandra Villing (British Museum), 27. 06. 2023.
Graeco-Aegyptiaca, Season 1 (2022)
‘Visual bilingualism in Graeco-Egyptian amulet gems’
Talk by Véronique Dasen (Université de Fribourg) in the Graeco-Aegyptiaca lecture series, 25. 01. 2022.
‘Demotic Egyptian traditions of the war of the gods and giants’
Talk by Joachim F. Quack (Universität Heidelberg) in the Graeco-Aegyptiaca lecture series, 22. 02. 2022.
‘Diocletian’s porphyry workshop. New images for the Tetrarchic rulers made in Egypt and the role of local craftsmanship in their conception’
Talk by Marianne Bergmann (Universität Göttingen) in the Graeco-Aegyptiaca lecture series, 22. 03. 2022.
Graeco-Aegyptiaca #1/4
‘Akhmîm-Panopolis – City of the weavers from Late Antiquity to the Arab Middle Ages’
Talk by Cäcilia Fluck (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin), 26. 04. 2022.
Graeco-Aegyptiaca #1/5
‘Theogonies and Theomachies in Egypt, Greece and Elsewhere. Comparisons, Connections and Speculations’
Talk by Ian Rutherford (University of Reading), 24. 05. 2022.
Graeco-Aegyptiaca #1/6
‘The interactions of Egyptian- and Greek-language astronomy: new sources and open questions’
Talk by Marina Escolano-Poveda (University of Manchester), 28. 06. 2022.
Listening to Tutankhamun
Online screening of multidisciplinary artist Sara Sallam’s short film I Prayed For The Resin Not To Melt, followed by a discussion with the artist,
26. 05. 2023.
Excerpt of the film: sarasallam.com
Featured image: The theatre at Epidaurus. Photo: Sharon Mollerus, source: Flickr / CC BY 2.0.