Programme of the 12th Melammu Workshop

Programme of the 12th Melammu Workshop: “Autocratic Rule in Antiquity” Kraków, October 4-6, 2021 October 5, 2021, 9.00 A.M. Collegium Novum, Golebia Street 24, room 30, first floor Sebastian Fink, Innsbruck Universität - Introduction Sebastian Fink, Innsbruck Universität - “The Oriental Despot: a Mesopotamian View” Kerstin Droß-Krüpe, Ruhr-Universität Bochum – “Female Autocracy: the Example of Semiramis” Josef Fischer, Independent Scholar – “Some Remarks on Mycenean Kingship” Matthias Haake, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster – “The Writing Tyrant in Ancient Greece” 12.00 A.M. Francesca Gazzano, Università degli Studi di Genoa – “Lydian Autocracy as seen by the Greeks” Jakub Kuciak, Jagiellonian University in Kraków – “An Another Pupil of Solon? Some Remarks on Herodotus' Account of Amasis II Edward Dąbrowa, Jagiellonian University in Kraków – “Attributes of Power of the Hasmoneans (152–76 p.n.e.) as an Expression of their Political Standing” 3.30 P.M. Rolf Strootman, Utrecht University – „Cleopatra’s Languages: Royal Multilingualism and Imperial Ideology in the Hellenistic Near East” Jesper Majbom Madsen, Syddansk Universitet Odense – “The Right Form of Monarchy and the many wrong one: Cassius Dio as a Political Theorist” Joanna Janik, Jagiellonian University in Kraków – “The Image of a Perfect Ruler in Libanius”