Workshop Brief:
This international workshop targets postgraduate students from Greece and Egypt who are interested in the material culture of death in the eastern Mediterranean during the Hellenistic and Roman eras. Invited speakers working on burial contexts, funerary art and architecture shall present thematic and interdisciplinary methods of analysis in which funerary archaeology provides insights on individuals and social groups. Themes that will be discussed include issues of wealth display, social, ethnic, and religious identities, the social roles of particular groups of people (e.g. children, women, the elderly, elite or non-elite individuals), and the impact that major historical events may have had on the way individuals or specific groups of individuals treated their dead.
For more information:
The Alexandria Center for Hellenistic Studies
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