THE GLORY OF THE ACHAEMENIDS: CHANGING PERSPECTIVES ON ANCIENT PERSIA
Study Day - Programme

Saturday 8 February 2003

0930 - 1000
 
 
Registration
 
1000 - 1005 Sam Moorehead (Education Department, BM): Welcome and opening remarks
1005 - 1015 Neil MacGregor (Director, BM): Iran in the British Museum
1015 - 1055 John Curtis (Dept. of the Ancient Near East, BM): The Archaeological Evidence 
1055 - 1135
 
Christopher Walker (Dept. of the Ancient Near East, BM): The Evidence of the Cuneiform texts
 
1135 - 1155
 
Coffee
 
1155 - 1235 Alexandra Villing (Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities, BM): Greeks and Persians 
1235 - 1315 Robin Lane-Fox (New College, Oxford):
Alexander and the Persian Empire
 
1315-1320
 
Questions
 
1320 - 1430
 
Lunch
 
1430 - 1510 Sheila R. Canby (Dept. of Oriental Antiquities, BM): The Qajar Perspective
1510 - 1550
 
St John Simpson (Dept. of the Ancient Near East): Through Travellers’ Eyes
 
1550 - 1610
 
Coffee
 
1610 - 1655
 
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (The Open University): Picturing the Persians - The Achaemenids in Visual Culture, 1550 – 2000 
 
1655 - 1700 Questions

  
 

  

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