PREFACE
The last few decades have witnessed a renewed scholarly interest in constructing and transmitting cultural
memories through various forms of media. This phenomenon has significantly contributed to accelerating researchon the creation of collective identities among different social groups in the ancient Mediterranean World. According
to Jan Assmann, a German Egyptologist who developed the theory of collective memory pioneered by Maurice
Halwachs and coined the concept of Cultural Memory, such memories are not spontaneously generated but aredeliberately constructed and upheld.
Cultural Memory is intricately linked to the identity of a specific group that shares a common past. This sharedhistory forms the foundation upon which the group relies to cultivate a sense of its uniqueness and continuity. This
collective past is influenced by current interests and is continually reconstructed by the community that recalls it,aiming to revitalize its relevance. However, one of the most significant aspects of Cultural Memory, especiallyrelevant to ancient historians, is its shaping and organization by means of media and institutions.
Fixing, retaining, and transmitting knowledge of a shared past is only achievable when it is objectified andencoded through various forms of media such as oral traditions, historical writings, public orations, inscriptions,statues, buildings, monuments, landscapes, and more. This organization is facilitated through diverse channels. It isessential to underscore that the mechanics of Cultural Memory are brought to life and intensified throughappropriate human or material agencies.
In this regard, the objectives of the fifth Euro-Japanese Colloquium directly follow those of the fourth
Colloquium held in 2018 in Nagoya, which was titled "Transmission and Organization of Knowledge in the Ancient
Mediterranean World." The proceedings of the fourth Colloquium were published by Phoibos Verlag, Wien in 2021.
As Japanese ancient historians, we eagerly anticipate the opportunity to reunite with old friends and new colleagues
while engaging in discussions about the various dimensions of Cultural Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean
World.
Finally, we would like to express our gratitude to the National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF) for
graciously providing the venue and co-hosting the Fifth Euro-Japanese Colloquium. In particular, we are deeply
thankful to Dr Antigoni Zournatzi, Director of Research, Section of Greek and Roman Antiquity, and Dr Nikolaos
Papazarkadas, Director of the Institute of Historical Research at the National Hellenic Research Foundation, fortheir unwavering support and assistance in every aspect.
The Associations for Researchers of the Ancient Greek Civilization, Japan
Akiko MOROO (Chiba University of Commerce)
Noboru SATO (Kobe University)
Yoshiyuki SUTO (Nagoya University)

近年、西洋古代史研究においては、さまざまなメディアを介した文化的記憶の構築とその伝達のあり方に対する関心が、新たな高まりを見せている。このような動きは、古代地中海世界を構成していた諸集団における集合的アイデンティティの形成の問題をめぐる研究の進展に大きく貢献してきた。モーリス・アルヴァックスの提唱した集合的記憶の理論を発展させ、文化的記憶という概念を打ち立てたドイツのエジプト学者ヤン・アスマンによれば、文化的記憶とは自然に生まれるものではなく、何らかの意図のもとで創造され、社会的に維持されることをその顕著な特徴としている。
文化的記憶は、過去をともにする社会集団のアイデンティティと密接に関わっているが、それは「共有された歴史」こそが、その集団の構成員にとって独自性と持続性の基盤となっているためである。この「共有された歴史」は、そのときどきの現在に影響されながら、それを想起するコミュニティによって不断に再構築され、新たな意味を与えられる。しかし、とりわけ古代史研究者にとって重要な点は、文化的記憶がメディアと制度によって形を与えられ、組織化されることである。
「共有された歴史」についての知識を固定し、維持し、伝達することは、口承、歴史叙述、公的弁論、碑文、彫像、建築物、モニュ
メント、景観などの多様なメディアによって客体化されコード化されることで初めて可能となる。その組織化は、さまざまなチャンネルを通じて促進されるが、文化的記憶のメカニズムに生命を吹き込むとともにそれを強化するのが、しかるべきヒトあるいはモノのエージェンシーであることには、改めて注目する必要がある。
このような認識において、第5回日欧古代地中海世界コロキアムのアジェンダは、知識の組織化と伝達方法をテーマとした前回の同コロキアム（その成果は2021年にウィーンのPhoibos Verlagから公刊されている）の延長線上に位置するものである。この機会に、文化的記憶についての議論を通じて、古代地中海世界の文化と歴史への関心をともにする日本とヨーロッパの研究者の交流がますます盛んになることを期待してやまない。
最後に、第5回日欧コロキアムの会場を快く貸してくださり、共催に名を連ねてくださった国立ギリシア研究財団に感謝を申し上げたい。とりわけ、Antigoni Zournatzi博士とNikolaos Papazarkadas博士には些事にいたるまで世話になった。あらためて感謝の意を表したい。

古代ギリシャ文化研究所
師尾晶子（千葉商科大学）
佐藤昇（神戸大学）
周藤芳幸（名古屋大学）

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PROGRAM
Wed. 20 March
19:00

Reception at National Hellenic Research Foundation

Thu. 21 March
Session 1: Chair: Sanae ITO
9:00-9:10

Yoshiyuki SUTO

Opening Remarks

9:15-9:50

Josine BLOK

Cultural Memory in the Dermatikon Accounts

9:55-10:30

Noboru SATO

Demosthenes’ Deliberative Speeches and Struggle
for Memory

10:35-11:10

Rosalia HATZILAMBROU Cultural Memory and the walls of Athens. The
Evidence of the Attic Orators

11:15-11:50

Akiko MOROO

Troezenian Memories on the Greco-Persian Wars:
Revisiting the Themistocles Decree through the
Troezenian Perspective

11:55-12:30

Kazuhiro TAKEUCHI

Cultural Memory in the Athenian Decree (129/8
BCE) about the Thargelia

12:30-13:30

LUNCH MEETING

Session 2: Chair: Yoshiyuki SUTO

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13:30-14:05

Ben GRAY

Commemorating Displacement in the Hellenistic
World: Remembering Exile, Rethinking
Democracy

14:10-14:45

Silvia BARBANTANIThe Shadows of Homer and Alexander: Identity ofHellenistic Soldiers through their Epitaphs

14:50-15:10

COFFEE BREAK

15:10-15:45

Vyron ANTONIADISSanctuaries as “Time Capsules”: Sacred Cultural
Memory in Hellenistic Delos

15:50-16:25

Jakub FILONIKThe Discourse behind ‘sharing in the polis’:
Political Language and Cultural Memory

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Session 3: Chair: Antigoni ZOURNATZI
9:15-9:50

Lilian KARALI
Daisuke YAMAGUCHI

Uses and Meaning of the Cowrie Species Shell in theAncient Mediterranean World

9:55-10:30

Sebastian FINK

Remembering the Fallen City from Akkad to Athens

10:35-11:10

Sanae ITO

Cyprus and the Assyrian Empire from the Reigns ofSargon II to Assurbanipal

11:15-11:50

Takuji ABEKing of Countries Collects All the Fine and Beautiful
Things11:55-12:30

Giorgia PROIETTIThe Past in the Present, and the Present in the Past:
the Commemoration of the Persian Wars before
Herodotus

12:30-13:30

LUNCH MEETING

Session 4: Chair: Akiko MOROO
13:30-14:05

MarionMEYER"Glorious Ancestors: Aiakos and his Offspring in
Athens and Aigina"

14:10-14:45

Yoshiyuki SUTO

Priestly Decrees as Agency of Cultural Memory in
Ptolemaic Egypt

14:50-15:25

Charikleia
PAPAGEORGIADOU

Remembrance and Identity in Roman Provincial
Coinage. From Local “Histories” to a Greco-Roman“Koiné”

15:25-15:40

COFFEE BREAK

15:40-16:40

Discussion

16:40-17:00

Mariko SAKURAI

Closing Remarks

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ABSTRACTS
21 MARCH
Josine BLOK
Cultural memory in the Dermatikon accounts
The inventories and accounts of the Tamiai ofAthena known as IG II2 1496 belong to a larger
group of accounts typical of the early Lykourgan
period. Although in the first place documents
accounting for the financial policies of the polis,
between the lines these accounts also document a
range of relationships between gods and men. Using
the concept of ‘stratigraphy’ developed by Angelos
Chaniotis for the analysis of religious regulations, I
propose to read these accounts, with theiradministrative and financial data, as transmitting thecultural memory of Athens to revive it for thepresent. The volume with these accounts of the new
IG II3 is still in progress, so I need to use the old
edition; however, I hope to study the stone(fragments) in the days just before the Colloquium
and to give a concise impression with pictures in mypresentation.

Noboru SATO
Demosthenes’ Deliberative Speeches and Struggle
for Memory
The aim of this paper is to examine the self-image
that Demosthenes wished to convey to his fellow
citizens and posterity through his deliberative
speeches. Scholars have doubted that the orator‘published’ (or circulated) them himself, mainly
because their publication after delivery in theassembly would not be profitable for Demosthenes
himself. However, as some passages in his speech On
the Crown suggest, Demosthenes clearly feared thatyounger generations might be ignorant of his
political career and wanted them to remember his
political achievements as the orator himself wished.
Therefore, toward the end of his political career,
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Demosthenes had good reason to leave his
deliberative speeches to the younger generations asevidence of his political activities that documents inthe public archive or public inscriptions could notattest. Judging from his surviving deliberative
speeches, Demosthenes presumably wanted his
fellow citizens and posterity to remember him as apolitician who had warned them of Philip’s threat at
an early stage, even if others were not aware of it
and who had fiercely confronted traitors as soon as
he realised that they were taking bribes from theMacedonian king.

Rosalia Hatzilambrou
Cultural memory and the walls of Athens. The
evidence of the Attic orators.
The walls of Athens, a perennial urban feature of
the Athenian topography, surrounding the inhabitedareas of Athens and extending to the ports of
Piraeus and Phaleron, were not only vital for thesurvival of the city and the security of its
inhabitants. They also emerge as a fundamental
element of the collective identity and the cultural
memory of the Athenians in the classical period,
crystallizing both traumatic and glorious
experience, and objectifying dominant values of theAthenian civic ideology. In my paper, I aim to
explore how the walls as ‘stores’ of cultural
memory were used in the public speeches deliveredat the Assembly and the popular lawcourts ofAthens, and what this use reveals about the attitude
towards cultural memory adopted by the orator andhis public. Furthermore, I wish to investigate how
the Attic oratorical texts contributed to theconstruction and maintenance of the ‘recollecting’
function of the walls, and as a result to therepresentation and reproduction of the self-image ofthe polis. Passages from Andocides On the Peace,
Lysias Against Agoratus, and Lycurgus Against
Leocrates will chiefly provide my case-studies.

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Troezenian Memories on the Greco-Persian
Wars: Revisiting the Themistocles Decree
through the Troezenian Perspective
The Themistocles Decree has been a subject of
prolonged debate regarding its authenticity and theperiod of its inscription, garnering scholarly
attention since its initial publication by Michael
Jameson in 1960 and 1962. Initially dated to the latefourth century BCE, its dating has beenreconsidered notably in favour of Sterling Dow’s
proposal in 1962. This re-dating, primarily based on
letterforms and inscriptional styles, suggests a thirdcentury BCE origin. Despite its discovery in
Troezen rather than Athens, examinations of the
motive behind its erection have predominantly
focused on an Athenian perspective, with notable
exceptions such as the papers by Harold Mattingly(1981) and Noel Robertson (1982). Both scholars,
dating the inscription to the third century BCE,
explored its purpose in the context of the Ptolemaic
efforts to assert dominance over the Aegean Sea
during the Chremonidean War.
This paper seeks to reassess the circumstances
surrounding the erection of the Themistocles
Decree in Troezen during the third century BCE. By
juxtaposing insights from Pausanias 2.31.7, whichsheds light on Troezenian memories of the GrecoPersian Wars, with the site of its discovery, thisstudy aims to offer a Troezenian perspective on thedecree’s erection. Furthermore, the paper will
examine the resurgence of recollections andreconstruction of collective memory concerning theGreco-Persian Wars during the third century BCE.

Kazuhiro TAKEUCHI
Cultural Memory in the Athenian Decree (129/8
BCE) about the Thargelia
The second-century Athenian decree for the renewalof the cult of Apollo Pythios and the festival
Thargelia was first published from autopsy in 1941
by Werner Peek (SEG XXI 469). A few years later,
Adolf Wilhelm emended the text at several points.
His edition provides the basis for the text inFranciszek Sokolowski’s supplementary volume ofLois sacrée des cites grecques (LSS 14). A mostimportant feature to note here is that the Athenians
inscribed the decree on a slightly concave stele, madefrom a triangular base supporting the tripod of the
fourth-century choregic dedication (IG II/III3 4, 496,
still partly legible above the decree). The original
base had most likely been placed in the Pythion by
the Ilissos River, along with other Thargelian
dedications discovered there. The decree stele,
therefore, not only took over the Athenian past andtraditional rituals but also newly established thepolitical and cultural authority of the polis under the
influence of Rome. In parallel with preparing a newedition of the decree, which can suggest different
readings and restorations of the text from those of
Peek and Wilhelm, this paper explores ‘the past in
the present’ surrounding the decree stele in terms ofcultural memory. It focuses on the historical context
of the late second century, the agency of themonument changing from base to stele, and thesacrificial rituals for Apollo with different epithets.

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Benjamin GRAY
Commemorating Mass Displacement in theHellenistic World: Remembering Exile,
Rethinking Democracy
Commemorating a traumatic period of mass exile
had long been an effective way for Archaic andClassical Greek poleis to celebrate their resilience,but also to explore the nature of their community.
Most famously, Athenian traditions about therepeated triumphs of the ‘demos-inexile’ (especially in 480 and 404-BC) became an
important paradigm of the unity, mobilisation andequality of which the Athenian demos was capable,
especially when provoked to transcend everyday
divisions and inequalities. This tradition endured
into the Hellenistic period, as this paper will
explore, through diverse case-studies (Samos,
Entella, Megalopolis, Abdera). These cities’commemoration was complex and multilayered.
They were remembering particular local crises andsuccesses, in ways which differ in interesting ways
by place and date. But they were also engaging withwider Greek cultural memory of collective
displacement, in which Athenian traditions wereprominent. These smaller Hellenistic democracies
partly aspired to emulate the model of the martial,
heroic ‘demos-in-exile’, famous from ClassicalAthens, but they also used their commemoration of
exile to explore in new ways the role ofinterdependence, vulnerability, diaspora andcompassion in sustaining democratic life.
Silvia BARBANTANIThe shadows of Homer, Simonides andAlexander: Identity of soldiers in Hellenistic
epigrams
Funerary epigrams of Hellenistic soldiers, either
mercenaries, citizens enrolled in local armies or partof the military class of the Hellenistic kingdoms,
convey the moral values of the period and offer arare glimpse into a very troubled period in the
Aegean and Near Eastern area, that from theconquest of Alexander to the rise of the Roman
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Empire. With some notable exceptions, war-themed
encomiastic poetry of the Hellenistic period is mainly
lost, so the ideological transfiguration of the conflicts
waged by kings and generals proposed by court poets
is poorly attested. The involvement of individual
members of the poleis in mainland Greece and Asia
Minor is also known mainly through epigraphic
documents. In the military epitaphs, but also in somededicatory epigrams related to individual soldiers, we
may find original voices remembering andinterpreting Hellenistic wars and their effect.
Imagery and lexicon of these poems, unsurprisingly,
draw mainly on Homer and on archaic elegiac poets.
However, some of the ideas expressed in the most
famous literary works related to the Persian Warsalso resurface, adapted to a new historical context.
The paper presents a sample of verse inscriptions
from Egypt, Near East and Greece.

Vyron ANTONIADISSanctuaries as “Time Capsules”: Sacred Cultural
Memory in Hellenistic Delos
The landscape of Hellenistic Delos was marked withnumerous sanctuaries dedicated to non-Greek gods.
Some of these sanctuaries bore witness to successive
generations of the respective families of priests who
meticulously oversaw these sacred spaces. A striking
example of this enduring legacy is embodied inSarapeion A: the unearthed heirlooms, inscriptions,and votive offerings constitute a captivating context,
which helps unveil important moments in the family
histories of this sanctuary’s priests.
This presentation seeks to contribute to ourunderstanding of the workings of cultural memory
and its agencies in the ancient Mediterranean world
through framing the various archaeological remainsof Sarapeion A as a “time capsule” and highlighting
the paramount role of architectural elements andritual practices in shaping and preserving the cultural
memory and collective identity of the priestly
families who resided in this sanctuary for over a
century.

The Fifth Euro-Japanese Colloquium on the Ancient Mediterranean World ABSTRACTSJakub FILONIKThe discourse behind ‘sharing in the polis’:
political language and cultural memory
Athenian orators primarily addressed civic
audiences whose political status was presented as
an uncommon and coveted privilege. A significant
part of the surviving public speeches comes fromthe times of political crises and economic
difficulties faced by Athens (esp. 403–378 and 355–
322 BCE). My chapter aims to show how thismaterial and existential aspect of civic life wasskilfully used by professional speakers andspeechwriters in attempts to frame political andlegal statuses as scarce entities or limited resources,in danger of being claimed and taken away byothers, often with reference to shared communal
experiences. This analysis looks at possible materialroots of political concepts such as ‘having a share in
the polis’, well represented and adroitly used inoratory (Dem. 57.3, [59].28, 111, Lycurg. 1.142),
together with more abstract categories presented asmaterial entities that should not be easily given
away and which could be ‘seized’ from the demos
by the speaker’s and the people’s ‘common
enemies’ (with parallels from modern world,
including popular discourses on immigration). In
doing so, this paper will seek aid from the methodsof cognitive linguistics, not least contemporary
studies of metaphor in discourse, and studies ofcollective memory.

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22 MARCH
Lilian KARALI
Daisuke YAMAGUCHI
Cultural memory of the Cowrie species Uses andsymbolism/meaning in the Ancient Mediterranean

Ecology, archaeology, literature and history are
constantly providing renewed information related tothe past. Similarities can be noted in various
environmental and cultural contexts, during
prehistory as trading partners, Greeks, Phoenicians
and Cypriots established a communication net
around the Mediterranean countries. In Greece, theuse of the Cowrie shell has already been attested
from the Palaeolithic period onwards. This species
has been food supplement and also used as
ornament. Its symbolic use in the place of the eyesof buried human bodies from the Middle East isuntil now unique. However, all around theMediterranean from prehistoric times till now is
ornamental also symbolic linked to the female
fertility. In North America, Asia, Africa, Oceania
and Australia and even the Middle East, Cowries
were used as money. A database is underconstruction.
Archaeological evidence concerning the contacts
and communication in the past, can be now quite
easily mapped. And some of the routes that humangroups took to reach the coastal archaeological sites
have been established.
Nowadays an extensive list of articles and scientificworks on seashell remains is provided by renowned
scholars and researchers. A considerable number of
localities where such remains have been discovered
and their uses are discussed extensively by botharchaeologists and archaeomalacologists.

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Sebastian FINK
Remembering the Fallen City from Akkad to Athens

The fall of a city is a traumatic event for any
community and the survivors of the disaster have tofind a way to collectively cope with it. While therepression of the memories is a possible strategy,
which is hardly reflected in our sources, we havenumerous texts that actively try to shape the cultural
memory by describing and explaining thecatastrophe. Texts dealing with the fall of cities havea long tradition in Mesopotamian literature. Since thethird millennium the destruction of cities features
prominently in texts, although the texts take very
different viewpoints on the matter. The royal
inscriptions celebrate the fall of an enemy city as aheroic event and mention the suffering of thedefeated only in passing or as a threat to potential
enemies. In the lamentations, however, theperspective of the defeated is taken.
Around the turn of the 3rd to the 2nd millennium,
Sumerian died out as a vernacular but shortly after
this, numerous laments were composed in Emesal –the only known variant of Sumerian. Emesal laments
were highly successful as a literary genre: by line
count, they surely constitute the largest corpus andthey were transmitted from around 2000 BC at least
until the 1st century BC. Besides the Sumerian and
Akkadian traditions, we also find lamentations in the
Hebrew Bible and classical Greece, which led to a
discussion of a potential transfer of motifs from
Mesopotamia to the West.
In my talk, I am going to outline the history oflaments from Akkad to Athens. In a second step, I
will illustrate how these texts shaped the cultural
memory. While tropes and metaphors for thedestruction of cities are astonishingly stable, theexplanations for it change. These changes are an
important hint for the role of these texts in shaping
the public memory and worldview. Therefore, theanalysis of these changes will be the focus of mytalk.

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Cyprus and the Assyrian Empire from the Reigns ofSargon II to Assurbanipal

A stone stele found in 1845 (or 1844) near Larnaca(ancient Kition) on Cyprus has the image of Sargon
II, king of Assyria (721-705 BCE), and his
inscription. It records the diplomatic delegation
dispatched by seven rulers (lit. kings) of “the land of
Yadnana” (Cyprus) to Sargon II staying in Babylon
and the erection of the stele in Cyprus tocommemorate the event. The stele (VA 00968) is now
in the Vorderasiatisches (Pergamon) Museum in
Berlin, having been purchased in 1846. The
successors of Sargon II also mention Cyprus in theirroyal inscriptions and a query to the sun god.
Sennacherib (704-681) claims that the king of theSidon fled from the city of Tyre to Cyprus, took
refuge there, and disappeared. Esarhaddon (680-669)
made ten rulers of Cyprus participate in renovating
his armory in the capital of the Assyrian Empire andhe concluded a treaty with at least one Cypriot ruler.
Assurbanipal (668-c. 630) made ten rulers of Cyprus
accompany his troops to Egypt as well. In this paper,
I discuss the relationship between Assyria and the
Cypriot kingdoms from an Assyrian perspective andfrom a local perspective, and then consider thecultural memory induced by the overlordship of the
Assyrian Empire in Cyprus

Takuji ABEKing of Countries Collects All the Fine and Beautiful
ThingsThe Achaemenid Persian Empire recruited a numberof Greek soldiers (or Greek mercenaries) and
deployed them on the battlefield. The best-known
cases will be Cyrus the Younger’s rebellion and thedefensive war against Alexander the Great. A longestablished view has ascribed this phenomenon to
Greek military superiority over Persian and barbariansoldiers. However, as Jeffrey Rop reveals, the Persian
employers often lost their battles, and the Greek
soldiers could not make decisive contributions to thewars. While Rop emphasizes the politicalconnections between Greek military leaders andPersian employers, I examine this from theperspective of the Achaemenid king. The
Achaemenid Persian kings call themselves ‘King ofcountries,’ or ‘King in all the earth,’ in several royal
inscriptions, and they declare that they are
bestowed rulership by the god Ahuramazda. At thesame time, they show their talents in collecting ‘allthe fine and beautiful things’ (borrowed fromXenophon’s wording) in many fields. In this paper,
I argue that the Achaemenid royal troops were a
showcase of their ideal world, and the kings
required Greek soldiers (not least, the Greek
hoplites, who must have looked fine, andfurthermore ‘strange’ to the Persian king’s eyes) tocomplete their microcosmos.

Giorgia PROIETTIThe Past in the Present, and the Present in the
Past: the Commemoration of the Persian Wars
before Herodotus

It has been long assumed that Herodotus’ Persian
wars are exactly equivalent to the Persian wars as
they happened in their factual reality: as anhistoriographical work, the Histories used to bethought of a priori as providing a complete,objective, faithful account of the events. However,in the last couple of decades, some research lines
have proved this assumption questionable. On the
one hand, the growing field of memory studies has
been exploring the mechanisms of formation andtransmission of social memory in ancient andmodern societies; on the other hand, theinterdisciplinary encounter between theanthropology of oral tradition and the study ofGreek archaism resulted in a new comprehensionof the multifarious panorama of oral narratives
lying behind the Histories. Building on these two
research lines, this paper focuses on the ways andforms through which the Persian wars wereremembered, represented and narrated before
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form. First, it introduces the variety of nonhistoriographical media implicated: inscriptions,m o n u m e n t s , t o p o g r a p h y, p u b l i c p o e t i cperformances, theatre, cults, rites, festival, oracles,
and public discourse. Second, it shows that thesepre-historiographical forms of memory together
built an interconnected, 'multi-medial' and 'intermedial' network of historical representations andmeanings, visible parts of a submerged world ofstories about the Persian wars which circulated wellbefore Herodotus heard and researched about them.
Third, it contends that, far from providing objective,
frozen representations of the past, they shaped andreshaped the events decade after decade, according
to the needs of the present, and that as such, as
already multi-layered pictures of the Persian wars,
eventually reached Herodotus’ ears.

Marion MEYER
Glorious Ancestors: Aiakos and his Offspring in
Athens and Aigina

There are a lot of examples for the constructionof prestigious genealogies and their subsequent
exploitation for various purposes. I will discuss acase that throws some light on the use ofmonuments and images in the competition forprestige by claiming figures of the past for interestsof the present. In the late 6th and early 5th century
BCE, Aiakos and his descendants, the Aiakidai,
play a prominent role in the ongoing antagonism of
the neighbors Aigina and Athens. The paper
explores how each party uses Aiakos and his
offspring for its own interests.

Yoshiyuki SUTO
Priestly Decrees as Agency of Cultural Memory in
Ptolemaic Egypt

The study of Egyptian culture and society during
the Ptolemaic rule has traditionally been dominatedby, if not synonymous with, papyrology. However,
the recent publication of the Corpus of Ptolemaic
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Inscriptions injects fresh momentum into
reevaluating the role of epigraphic evidence forunderstanding life in the multicultural milieu of
Ptolemaic Egypt. Well-established as a distinctive
and innovative genre of inscription, the priestly
decree takes center stage. These decrees document
collective decisions made during yearly synods of
Egyptian elite priests, seeking to redefine theirrelationship with Ptolemaic kings. While closelymodeled after the standard Greek honorific decreesof the Classical period, these inscriptions are issued
in trilingual texts and erected in local temples
throughout the country. Traditionally, the priestly
decrees have primarily served as a lens to explore thechanging power dynamics between kingship andtemples—the two principal entities in the governanceof Hellenistic Egypt. However, beyond their role inpower dynamics, the text of these decrees likely
played a crucial role in establishing a shared past
between kings and priesthoods, forming thefoundation for negotiations between these two
influential parties. This paper aims to illuminate a
new perspective on the function of synodal decrees
as agents of authorized cultural memory in Ptolemaic
Egypt.

Charikleia PAPAGEORGIADOU
Remembrance and Identity in Roman Provincial
Coinage. From local “Histories” to a Greco-Roman‘Koiné’

One of the main questions concerning Roman
Provincial Coinage is the identity of the authority
which decided their iconography since coins werealways considered as the best way to disseminate
issuing authority’s messages.
The answer is not easy and not always neat,
although we can clearly distinguish between an
iconography originating in the Imperial Court,
following the Roman prototypes, which used scenes
related to the emperor’s policy and achievements incontrast to subjects known locally through a long
tradition. In fact, people within Rome’s provinces
sought to maintain their own local traditions and

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individuality while also representing themselves as
Roman, especially in public contexts and in the sightof the emperor. Therefore, a specific iconography
appears, which, although Greek” in character,follows a rather Roman artistic pattern, creating
eventually a kind of a “koiné”.
Since these bronze coins, struck under Roman
authority but by local elites, were destined for strictly
local use, the iconographic choices could be seen as
strategies of reminding and seen under different
perspectives, through the ages. The “Greek
Renaissance” of the Antonine period, where the mostcharacteristic issues are dated, definitely contributed
to a revival of the glorious past of indigenous peopleor the declaration of a local identity.

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LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
Takuji ABE is Associate Professor ofEuropean History at Kyoto Prefectural
University (Japan). His researchinterests cover the political and cultural
history of the Achaemenid Persian
Empire and its encounters with the
Greeks. His publications include A Short History of
the Achaemenid Empire (in Japanese, 2021) and theJapanese translation of Ctesias’ Persica and Indica(2019). He is also the author of “Herodotus’ First
Language: The State of Language in Halicarnassus,”
Talanta: Proceedings of Dutch Archaeological andHistorical Society 46/47 (2015), and “Proskynēsis:From a Persian Court Protocol to a Greek Religious
Practice,” Tekmeria 14 (2018).

Vyron ANTONIADIS is a ClassicalArchaeologist and Senior Researcher
at the Institute of Historical Researchof the National Hellenic Research
Foundation. His primary focus is on
studying the economy and society in
antiquity. He is currently undertaking
research in three areas: the publication of Hellenistic
and Roman pottery and architecture from the Insula
X, Theatre Quarter at Delos, the spatial analysis ofburial sites, roads, and settlement patterns in ancient
Greece using GIS tools and the study of Rural Epirus
during the Hellenistic and Roman periods. He has
published two monographs: Knossos and the Near
East: A contextual approach to imports andimitations in Early Iron Age tombs (Oxford, 2017)
and Tabula Imperii Romani: J34-Athens. Εpirus(Athens, 2016). With over two decades of fieldwork
experience, he has actively participated in
excavations in various locations, including Greece(Marathon, Athens, Delos, Corinth), Spain (Zamora),
Lebanon (Tyre), and Wales (Anglesey).

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Silvia BARBANTANI is Associate
Professor at the Università Cattolicadel Sacro Cuore, Milan, where shet e a c h e s C l a s s i c a l P h i l o l o g y,
Papyrology, and Greek Literature.
She studied in Milan, Urbino,
Venezia (VIU), and was a visiting student in
Oxford (Corpus Christi College) and in
Cambridge. In September 2018 she took part in theworkshop Approaches to Local Historiography(Chiba University of Commerce) and gave some
lectures in Japan. She is an associate member ofthe Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies(Canada), a member of the Spanish state-funded
project La Historia como materia poética –HISTOPOETIC (Universidad de Cádiz), and acontributor to Die Fragmente der Griechischen
Historiker Continued. She has publishedextensively on Hellenistic history and literature,
focusing mainly on encomiastic poetry, elegy andepigram, and the reception on lyric poetry. She isauthor of two monographs (Φάτις νικηφόρος,
Milano 2001; Three Burials, Alessandria 2010),
and has recently edited two Hellenistic issues of
the journal Aevum Antiquum with international
contributors (Callimachus and Apollonius,
2019; Embedded Epigrams, 2022).
Josine BLOK is Professor Emerita ofAncient History and ClassicalCivilization at Utrecht University, theNetherlands, and a member of theRoyal Dutch Academy of Arts andSciences. She chairs the European
Network for the Study of Ancient Greek History(https://www.phil.uni-mannheim.de/geschichte/
european-network/home/ ) and is a member of theAdvisory Board of Attic Inscriptions Online(https://www.atticinscriptions.com/ ). Her field ofinterest is the history of archaic and classical
Greece, especially citizenship; in 2017, shepublished Citizenship in classical Athens (CUP). A
new book written together with Irad Malkin,
Drawing lots: from egalitarianism to democracy inancient Greece, will appear in May 2024 (OUP).

The Fifth Euro-Japanese Colloquium on the Ancient Mediterranean World ABSTRACTSJakub FILONIK is an AssistantProfessor at the University of Silesia in
Katowice. He has published on Athenian
oratory, Greek law and citizenship,
political metaphors, and liberty ancientand modern. He has recently co-edited'Citizenship in antiquity' (Routledge,2023) and 'Friendship in ancient Greek thought andliterature' (Brill, 2023) and has published annotated
Polish translations of Athenian court speeches. He iscurrently preparing monographs on the rhetoric of
freedom in classical Athens and on Greek politicalmetaphors, and is a PI in a grant project 'Sharing in
the polis: Greek conceptualizations of the politicalcommunity' (2023-2026, National Science Centre,
Poland).

Benjamin GRAY is Senior Lecturer in
Ancient History at Birkbeck College,
University of London. His researchconcentrates on the connections
between ancient politics, ancient
political thinking, and modern politicaltheory, with special reference to theHellenistic city-states. He is currently working on
a book entitled Rethinking Polis and Cosmopolisin Crisis, c. 150 BC–AD 14: Greek PoliticalThought between the Hellenistic and RomanWorlds. His publications include Stasis andStability: Exile, the Polis, Political Thought, c.
404–146 BC (OUP 2015) and (ed., with M.
Canevaro) The Hellenistic Reception of ClassicalAthenian Democracy and Political Thought (OUP
2018).

Sebastian Fink is Senior Scientist at theInstitute for Ancient History and Ancient
Near Eastern Studies at the University of
Innsbruck. His research interests include
the Sumerian language and Emesal,
Empires in the Ancient World, the historyof Mesopotamian literature, the description andconceptualization of war, and the intellectual historyof the Ancient World. He studied Philosophy andAncient Near Eastern Studies in Innsbruck. After his
dissertation "Benjamin Lee Whorf, the Sumerians andthe Influence of Language on Thought" (published2015) he held research positions in two projects
concerned with the collection and lexical analysis of
Emesal lamentations. In 2017 he moved to the
University of Kassel, where he worked at the chair ofAncient History and later that year he moved to
Helsinki to join the Finish Academy Cluster of
Excellence "Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions".
In 2020 he returned to Innsbruck and now has apermanent position as Senior scientist. In 2022 hefinished his habilitation "Mesopotamian Kingshipbetween Reality and Fiction". He is an associate
member of the Finish Academy Excellence cluster"Ancient Near Easter Empires" and a researcher of theHelsinki-based project "The origins of Emesal", editorof several book series, and since 2022 the Chair of the
Melammu project.

R o s a l i a H AT Z I L A M B R O U i s
Associate Professor in the Departmentof Classics at the National andKapodistrian University of Athens. She
is the author of Isaeus’ On the Estate of
Pyrrhus (2018) and co-author of the
Corpus of the Attic Inheritance Speeches (2021 in
Greek). Her Ph.D. thesis on a selection of
unpublished Greek papyri was published inseparate volumes of The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Her
research interests include Attic oratory, Greek
rhetoric, and Greek papyrology, and she has
published a number of articles in each of theseareas.
Sanae ITO is Designated AssistantProfessor at the Institute forAdvanced Research and the Graduate
School of Humanities at Nagoya
University. After the completion of
her Ph.D. study at University of
Helsinki in 2015, she did postdoctoral
research at University of Helsinki, Sophia
University, Leiden University, and Rikkyo
University. Her research interest is in the statecorrespondence of the Assyrian kings written in
cuneiform script on clay tablets. She is currently
preparing a monograph on the royal letters ofAssurbanipal, king of Assyria in the 7th century
BCE.

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Lilian KARALI is Professor Emerita ofPrehistoric and Environmental
Archaeology at the National andKapodistrian University of Athens. Her
interests include the History ofArchaeology, Environmental Archaeology withemphasis on the study of the sea world and thearchaeological use of seashells, as well as theworld-wide history of Neolithic societies material
culture. She is the author of many articles andbooks, such as: Dictionary of Archaeological –Environmental Terms (1998), Shells in Aegean
Prehistory (1999), Environmental Archaeology(2005), Purpureae Vestes. II. (2008 with C. Alfaro),
Neolithic culture. In pursue of the human traces in
the neolithic Environment of the East and the West(2011), Notebooks on Geoarchaeology (2015, in
Greek, with G. Ferentinos) etc. She is the directorof the Leontari Cave Excavation Project and the
Schisti Odos project.

Akiko MOROO is Professor of Westernand Mediterranean History at Chiba
University of Commerce. Her researchinterests include the Greek epigraphy
habit, the Athenian Empire, and thecultural interaction in the eastern
Mediterranean world. She is the author of “TheOrigin and Development of Acropolis as a Place for
Erecting Public Decrees: Periclean Building Projectand Its Effect on the Athenian Epigraphic Habit, ” T.
Osada (ed.) The Parthenon Frieze: The RitualCommunication between the Goddess and the Polis.
Parthenon Project Japan 2011-2014 (Wien, 2016)
and“The Erythrai Decrees Reconsidered: IG I3 14, 15& 16,” in A. Matthaiou and R. Pitt (eds.) Ἀθηναίων
ἐπίσκοπος. Studies in honour of Harold B. Mattingly(Athens, 2014).
She participated in the Turkish - Japanese joint
excavation of the Tlos Basilica from 2010 to 2017,and her report on the inscriptions of the site “ Theinscriptions from the Basilica I” was published in
The City Basilica of Tlos (Istanbul 2020).

Marion MEYER is Professor ofClassical Archaeology (retired in 2020).
She taught in Munich, Hamburg andGainesville/Florida, Bonn (1997-2003)
and Vienna (2003-2020). Her main
research interests are ancient Athens;visual communication; the creation, tradition, use,function and significance of images; phenomena ofacculturation in the Eastern Mediterranean. Among
her recent publications are Athena, Göttin vonAthen. Kult und Mythos auf der Akropolis bis in
klassische Zeit (Vienna 2017) and a volume, coedited with Gianfranco Adornato, Innovations andInventions in Athens c. 530 to 470 BCE – Two
Crucial Generations (Vienna 2020). She currently
works on commemoration of the dead in ClassicalAthens and on the iconography of royalty in Early
Hellenistic Egypt.

Charikleia PAPAGEORGIADOU is
Research Director at the Institute ofHistorical Research of the National
Hellenic Research Foundation. Since
2011 she coordinates the Program“Economy and Society in the Hellenistic
and Roman periods”. Her research interests focus oncoinage as economic phenomenon in ancientsocieties, studied through local currencies andnumismatic circulation, and especially, on theevolution of the monetary economy during Romantimes in the Mediterranean basin and the Balkans(the penetration of the Roman Republican coins, thefoundation of colonies, imperial financial policyetc.). Her published work includes three monographs
and three collective volumes, the latest one being
Réflexions sur la circulation des monnaies Romaines
Républicaines en Grèce et dans les Balkans [with P.
Marchetti], https://www.anavathmis.eu/e-books/#1573422808054-fdc47df7-a79a.

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Giorgia PROIETTI (PhD 2014) is
Assistant Professor in Greek History
and coordinator of the LIMS –Interdepartmental Lab Memory andSociety at the University of Trento. She
is mainly interested in war and war
related phenomena, as well as in issues of collective
memory in the ancient world, also in a comparative
perspective with today. Among her publications, theedited book Commemorating war and war dead.
Ancient and modern (Stuttgart, 2019, with E.
Franchi and M. Giangiulio), and the monographPrima di Erodoto. Aspetti della memoria delle
Guerre Persiane (Hermes Einzelschriften 120,
Stuttgart 2021, with a preface by N. Luraghi).

K a z u h i r o TA K E U C H I ( P h D :University of Athens) is a Postdoctoral
Fellow of the Japan Society for the
Promotion of Science at Nagoya
University. His research interests
include Greek history, epigraphy ofAthens and Attica, and local historiography. He iscurrently working on a monograph on the cults ofDionysos in the Attic demes based on epigraphicaland topographical evidence, as well as a newedition of inscribed Attic decrees of Inscriptiones
Graecae (IG II/III3 1, fasc. 9), ranging fromdecrees of tribes, demes, phratries, gene, andtetrapolis. He is also a contributor to Attic
Inscriptions Online (AIO).

Noboru SATO is Professor at Kobe
University (PhD: University of Tokyo).
His main academic interests are in law,rhetoric and society in Classical Athensand Ancient Greek historiography. He is
the author of Bribery in ClassicalAthens (2008 in Japanese) and a contributor of Brill’s
New Jacoby. He is currently editing a book on
character portrayal in Athenian forensic speeches. He
co-organised the third and fourth Euro-Japanesecolloquium on the Ancient Mediterranean World.

Daisuke YAMAGUCHI (PhD:
University of Athens) is a Post-doc
researcher in Prehistoric andEnvironmental Archaeology at UOA.
His research interests cover the socialand palaeoenvironmental archaeology-history of
Greece, Middle East and Japan. His specialization
is mainly on bone and sea shell artifacts andtechnological development through time. He is theauthor of several articles, including studies of
Greek and Japanese Neolithic. He is currently
working on excavations as an external collaborator
at the Greek Ephorate of Palaeoanthropology andSpeleology. His publications deal with the study ofbioarchaeological remains from Greek Prehistoricsites.

Yoshiyuki SUTO is Professor of
Graduate School of Humanities ResearchCenter for Cultural Heritage and Texts at
Nagoya University. His interests include
the historical geography of Greece andthe archaeology of Ptolemaic Egypt. He is one of
the co-organizers of the Akoris Archaeological
Project (http://akoris.jp/archaive.html). He is theauthor of Akoris I: Amphora Stamps, 2005, (with H.
Kawanishi) and Hellenism on the Nile, 2014, [inJapanese]. He is the editor of Transmission andOrganization of Knowledge in the Ancient
Mediterranean World, Wien 2021.

Antigoni Zournatzi is Director of
Research in the Institute of Historical
Research at the National Hellenic
Research Foundation. Her special areasof study are the interconnections of theancient Greek world with the Near East,ancient Cyprus, and the Achaemenid Empire. She
has authored Persian Rule in Cyprus (2005), and coedited Επιγραφές της Θράκης του Αιγαίου: µεταξύ
των ποταµών Νέστου και Έβρου (2005) and Ancient
Greece and Ancient Iran: Cross-Cultural Encounters(2008 – “World Prize for the Book of the Year of theIslamic Republic of Iran”, 2010). She presently
coordinates the project Mapping Ancient Cultural
Encounters: Greeks in Iran ca. 550 BC – ca. AD 650.

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LOCATION MAP
Institute of Historical Research/National Hellenic Research Foundation
48 Vassileos Constantinou Ave., 11635 Athens

The building has two entrances: the first is located on Vassileos Constantinou Ave. (N. 48), and the second one on
Vassileos Georgiou Str.
You can get to NHRF by:Bus
203, 204, 211, 214 (Bus stop: 2nd Rizari)
225, 224 (Bus stop: Evangelismos)
450, 550 (Bus stop: Rizari)
622 (Bus stop: Evangelismos)
815 (Bus stop: Evangelismos)
Metro
Evangelismos station (Exit to Rizari)
Trolleybus
from Patision Str. Trolleybus 3 (Bus stop: Evangelismos, on Vas. Sophias Ave.)8, 13 (Bus stop: Evangelismos, on Vas. Sophias Ave.)

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This Colloquium is supported primarily by the JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 18H03587, and jointly
by the following : JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers, 19KK0296, 20K01060, 20K12348, 21K00940,
23K12289, 21J01729.