From the Markets to the Associations
A Comprehensive View of the Greek Mercenary Worldin the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
Second International Conference

22-23 March 2018
Kwansei Gakuin University / Kyoto University
Supported by JSPS KAKENHI
Grant Number JP16F16009
Grant Number JP15H01888
Organisers
Takashi Fujii(Kwansei Gakuin University)
Daniel Gomez-Castro(JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow/Kwansei Gakuin University)

AIMS
Our first conference in 2016 focused on associations, that is the relationships between the publicand private spheres of mercenary within the Mediterranean states such as Carthage, Rome, theGreek poleis (oligopolistic/ monopolistic), Egypt, Achaemenid Persia and, finally, Hellenistic statessuch as the Kingdom of Pontus. In this second conference, held at Kyoto University, our interest
will shift towards the markets: political and economic conditions for the existence of mercenaries.
We will again cover a chronologically and geographically wide range, that is, Aetolia, Egypt, andHellenistic states including cities, federal states, and kingdoms.
This conference will enhance the global vision, both in its geographical and the chronologicalframework, sketched on the answers to the key questions formulated in the previous conference:
how mercenaries and professional recruiting markets worked and what economic prospects they
had when they agreed to be part of, or even direct, a military force recruited by a foreigner. Thus, theultimate goal of this encounter is to analyse the main aspects that defined the mercenary system asa market of recruitment and its evolution from the birth of mercenary to the Hellenistic period, overthe different Mediterranean powers in the ancient world.

PROGRAMME
22 March
14:00

Registration

14:30

WelcomeTakashi Fujii (Kwansei Gakuin University)
14:40

Introduction

Daniel Gómez-Castro ( JSPS/Kwansei Gakuin University)
15:00

Philip’s xenoi in Demosthenes’ public speeches

Noboru Sato (Kobe University)
15:50

Pause

16:10

Athenian Navy and Merchant Ships in the Fourth Century BC
Hinako Sugimoto (Kyoto University)

17:00

Professional-Foreign-Soldiers Before Coinage:
Greek Mercenary Service in the Mediterranean World of the 10th – 6th Centuries BCE

Matthew Trundle (Auckland University)

23 March
10:00

Registration/Coffee

10:20

What is the Mercenary for the Koinon? From Military and Social Perspectives
Kota Kishimoto ( JSPS/Osaka University)

11:10

Scopas of Trichonium:
A High-ranking Politician in Aetolia and a Mercenary General in Egypt

Masayuki Ito ( JSPS/Kamakura Women’s University)
12:00

Lunch

13:30

The paroikoi at Rhamnous Revisited

Akiko Moroo (Chiba University of Commerce)
14:20

The Kardakon Kome in Lycia: Status, Foundation and Evolution of a Military Settlement
Marc Domingo Gygax (Princeton University)

15:10

Pause

15:40

Contextualizing the ‘Mercenaries’ in the Later Hellenistic Middle Egypt
Yoshiyuki Suto (Nagoya University)

16:30

The Economic Aspects of Hiring Naval Crews in the Hellenistic Period
Vincent Gabrielsen (University of Copenhagen)

17:20

Concluding Remarks

VENUE

Lecture Room 4, Graduate School of Letters
Kyoto University
京都大学大学院文学研究科第 4 講義室

Yoshida-honmachi, Sakyo, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan

Takashi Fujii
CONTACT

Kwansei Gakuin University
E-mail: takashi.fujii@kwansei.ac.jp

共催

関西学院大学文学部西洋史学専修
京都大学大学院文学研究科西洋史学専修