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Greek political and institutional history (esp. citizenship and democracy), Greek epigraphy and the epigraphic habit, Greek colonization in Magna Graecia and Sicily, Archaic and Republican Roman history, Ancient and modern historiography

Dr. Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides is Associate Professor in the School of Humanities at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Her research explores political authority, dynastic legitimacy, and ruler representation across the Hellenistic world and Late Antiquity, with particular emphasis on the Seleukid and Ptolemaic kingdoms.

Her scholarship is interdisciplinary, examining the intersections of ancient history, philosophy, literature, and religion. Current research focuses on the ancient Near East, royal ideology, Seleukid kingship, Plato and Platonic traditions, the symposium, gender and power, and the reception of classical thought in early Christianity and later intellectual traditions.

Dr. Anagnostou-Laoutides has led and contributed to numerous international research projects and has published extensively on Hellenistic political culture, leadership, imperial discourse, and the reception of Greek philosophy. She continues to play an active role in collaborative international research on the ancient Mediterranean.

Alexander the Great; Modern Historiography on Ancient History, Gender & Women; Macedon; Faces of Power; Warfare; Victims & Horrors of War ; Classical Reception (mainly Cinema & Videogames).

Dr. Luis Ballesteros Pastor is Full Professor at the Universidad de Sevilla. His research focuses on the history of Mithridatid Pontus, Hellenistic Asia Minor, and the Greek world of the eastern Mediterranean.

His publications examine the history of Mithridates VI Eupator, the kingdoms of Asia Minor, and Greek historiography, including the works of Memnon of Herakleia.

encomiastic poetry; elegy and epigram; Hellenistic literature; Greek papyri; Ptolemaic Egypt

Dr. Alicia Batten is Professor of Religious Studies and Theological Studies at Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo. Her research focuses on the origins and development of early Christianity within its ancient Mediterranean contexts, with particular emphasis on the Letter of James, social history, material culture, and the history of biblical interpretation.

Her scholarship examines early Christian communities through interdisciplinary approaches that integrate literary analysis, archaeology, and social theory. She has published extensively on early Christianity, dress and clothing in Mediterranean antiquity, and the reception of biblical texts, and is currently writing a major commentary on the Letter of James.

Research expertise: Religious Studies; Clothing; New Testament and Apocryphal literature; Early Christianity; The Letter of James; Social History of Christian Origins; History of Biblical Interpretation.

localism, globalization, mainland Greece 

Research areas: Greek literature; Hellenistic poetry; Greek epigram; Callimachus; literary reception

Historical Geography, esp. of ancient Thrace and Black Sea region

ancient Thrace, ancient music, ethnic identity

Greek conceptions of the afterlife

Research areas: Ancient economy; Hellenistic world; Asia Minor; Greek epigraphy; numismatics

Military institutions (cavalry); Hellenistic democracy; Hellenistic Athens; Venetian fortifications & Greek mercenary cavalry (stratioti)

Civic governance, monarchic theories and practices, international diplomacy, cultural contacts, landscape and enviromnent

Research areas: Argead dynasty; ancient Macedonia; women in antiquity

Seleucid; Empire; Greek epigraphy; Hellenistic numismatics; Social and Economic History of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant

Political culture of classical Athens and republican and imperial Rome, Roman imperial conception and foreign policy in the late Republic and the Imperial period, Client kings and forms of rule in the Roman periphery, The shaming and defamation of sexual deviance in Attic and Roman rhetoric, Gender history and forms of sexual and partner deviance in antiquity, Reception of antiquity

Black Sea Studies, Greek Epigraphy, Historiography, Institutions, Prosopography

Research areas: Hellenistic kingdoms (Seleukids, Attalids, Mithradatids); Maccabees; Roman diplomacy; ancient citizenship; migration; ancient historiography; Black Sea studies

historical geography; geoarchaeology; ethnography; cartography; cultural transfers; Black Sea; Caucasus; Mediterranean; Asia Minor; Central Asia

Greek history (esp. fourth century BC); imperial historiography; classical reception (heavy metal music); Alexander

Research areas: Hellenistic kingdoms; Iranian traditions; prophecy; historiography; historical philosophy

Greek historiography and biography (including fragmentarily preserved authros and works), Alexander the Great and his successors, Greek geographers, geography as a discipline and cartograph

Seleukid Empire; Alexander the Great, including reception; Hellenistic numismatics, Hellenistic power and ideology.

Intellectual culture; Troy; Historiography; Roman imperialism

Research areas: Criticism of Greek and Latin literature; Hellenistic Greek and Latin Augustan poetry; ekphrasis; neo-Latin literature (Renaissance and Reformation); Erasmus

Research areas: Greek poetry; hymnography; Homer; Hellenistic literature; early Christian literature; patristics; Byzantine literature

Research areas: Ancient Greek philosophy; ancient science; ancient cosmology; ancient astronomy

Ptolemaic empire; papyrology and epigraphy; state formation and empire studies; ancient military and economic institutions; ethnicity and demography

Real-time systems, Embedded systems, Software technology, Autonomous vehicles, Big data/analytics, Operational Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Cybersecurity; exploring opportunities to collaborate with Classical / Hellenistic Studies

Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica

Greek and Latin epigram; Hellenistic poetry; Second Sophistic; Greek intellectual women; reception studies

federal states, borders, Spartans, Argives, Phokians

Research areas: Roman archaeology; Roman Greece; ancient economy; landscape archaeology; Mediterranean trade networks

Seleukid Empire, bureaucracy, historiography, law, archives, video game reception

Research areas: Greek literature; Classical philology; Hellenistic poetry

epigraphy, cult, Macedonia, Thrace, Thessaly

Research areas: Ancient economy; epigraphy; numismatics; Classical reception

Ethnic relations and social and cultural life in the ancient Mediterranean; Judeans

Research areas: Seleucid Empire; Alexander the Great; Achaemenid Empire; kingship; imperialism

History of Alexander the Great and the Diadochi

Hellenistic Bactria, Hellenistic India, Numismatics, Seleucids, Alexander the Great

Research areas: Greek and Hellenistic coinage

epigram; poetry books; erotic poetry; Hellenistic literature; reception of Hellenistic poetry

Ptolemy I, Macedonian Queenship, Historiography

Preliminary thesis title is: "Consolidating Control through Cooperation: The Antigonid-Seleucid Alliance as a Mechanism of Power during the Early Hellenistic Age"

Research areas: Hellenistic warfare

epigram, Hellenistic poetry, lyric poetry, Greek comedy, diachronic study of motifs and imagery

Hellenistic art and archaeology, Hellenistic queenship

Research areas: Hellenistic history; Seleucid Empire; ancient economies; institutional history; women in the ancient world

Ancient Near East, Assyria, Achaemenid Persia, Greece, diplomacy, interstate relations, reception

Hellenistic Anatolia, Indigeneity, Epigraphy, Ethnicity, Hellenistic Democracy

Research areas: Ancient economy; Hellenistic Babylonia; Seleukid kingdom

Seleucid Empire; Hellenistic Central Asia; Graeco-Bactrian and Arsacid Numismatics

Attalids, Cappadocia, Central Greece, Pontus, Roman reception of Hellenistic culture

Roman Republic, Rome's international relations, Hellenistic kings, cultural identities, Roman historiography, historical narratives, narratology, the reception of antiquity in video games

Research areas: Hellenistic poetry; religion and reception; epic poetry; iambography; hymns

Working on 'The Genealogy and Dynastic Model of the Seleucids and Ethnicity and Identity in Mainland Greece during the Hellenistic Period'

Research areas: Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt

Ancient Near and Middle Eastern history & archaeology – environmental history and geoscience – political and ideological uses of religion, religious institutions, & ritual

Research areas: Hellenistic Iran; Seleukid Empire; Arsacid Iran

Doctoral dissertation (preliminary title): The Graeco-Macedonian Rule in Hellenistic Iran: Sources on Interaction, Continuity and Change in Seleucid and Early Arsacid Iran.

Hellenistic Poetry Beyond Alexandria, Hellenistic Epic Fragments, Attalid Literature, Hellenistic Aesthetics, Intertextuality   

Research areas: Hellenistic history; Polybius; Philip V of Macedon; Antigonid dynasty; ancient Macedonia

Dynastic disputes, Foundation legends, Traditional narratives

Hellenistic Cyprus; Alexandria; Hellenistic portraiture; Hellenistic terracottas; Hellenistic power and ideology; Hellenistic religion; Modern receptions and uses of the Hellenistic past

Research areas: Medieval intellectual history; Hermetic tradition; ancient and medieval magic; astrology and alchemy; manuscript studies; reception of classical philosophy; Latin (Classical and Medieval)

Historiography; Alexander; Philip II, Early Ptolemies; Royal Women

Hellenistic political and economic history, Seleukid empire, Greek epigraphy, Seleukid colonization, Achaemenid history, comparative history of empires

Seleukids, Hellenistic queens, social history

Greek epigraphy, ancient religion, The history of ancient medicine, Mystery cults, Classical and Hellenistic athletic festivals

Roman imperialism, Hellenistic West, Punic Wars, Roman diplomacy, Iberian Peninsula local powers (Iberians, Celtiberians, Lusitanians)

Research areas: Hellenistic Aitolia

Research areas: Seleukid kingdom; Biblical literature; ancient warfare

Co-organizer:

• Seleukid Lecture Series – An international online lecture series dedicated to new research on the Seleukid Empire, featuring presentations and discussions with scholars from around the world.
• Unheard Voices of the Past – A public scholarship initiative presenting creative historical narratives and educational resources inspired by the ancient world.

Research areas: Armies of the Hellenistic kingdoms; Antigonid kingdom; Seleukid kingdom; Greek warfare; Achaemenid Iran; Ancient Crete

Greek poetry, Lycophron, epigram, Greek dialects, epic

Hellenistic Sicily, Klērouchoi, Hellenistic Warfare, Ancient Gender and Sexuality, Roman Republic

geographical writings; Peloponnesian landscapes; Peloponnesian states; dependent communities in the Peloponnese; regionalism

Greek and Roman History (especially Hellenistic period); Greek Epigraphy, Onomastics, Regional Studies of the Ancient Greek world

Hellenistic and Roman military and economic history

Polybius, Hellenism, Classical Warfare, Ancient Historiography, Roman imperialism. Youtube channel on the history of the law: ET - YouTube

Theory and structures of empire; temporality and social time; identities and cultural memory; Graeco-Roman Egypt; The Greek East in the Roman Empire.

Research areas: Greek poetry; Homeric Hymns; Hesiod; Apollonius Rhodius; papyrology; ancient etymology

Research areas: Hellenistic Babylonia; social history; social network analysis; social onomastics

Doctoral dissertation (working title): Elite Networks in Hellenistic Babylonia: beyond Continuity and Change

archaeology of Greek and Roman houses, households and domestic life; Greek and Roman mosaics; Classical and Hellenistic art and architecture.

Military history, sarissa phalanx, combined arms theory, military manuals, Antiochus III, Eumenes II, Greco-Bactria, Alexander the Great, Philip II

Dr. Mustafa Adak is Professor of Ancient History at Akdeniz University in Antalya, Türkiye. His research focuses on the history of Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor, Greek epigraphy, and the social and political history of the ancient Greek world, including the study of metics. He serves as a member of the Executive Committee of the Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies.

Research areas: Numismatics; Black Sea; royal coinages; reception studies; pop culture