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SUMMARY:Regional identity and state formation in the ancient world: the ca
 se of Epirus - Ben Raynor\, Darwin College
DTSTART:20170228T131000Z
DTEND:20170228T140000Z
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CONTACT:Julius Weitzdörfer
DESCRIPTION:Recent work on the formation of regional identity in the ancie
 nt world has focused on the importance of 'bottom-up' factors\, such as lo
 ng-term collaboration and interchange between neighbouring population grou
 ps\, or cooperation to resist external interference. While such work has p
 roduced important insights\, it may underestimate the importance of 'top-d
 own' factors\, particularly in the monarchic states of the ancient world w
 here autocrats had broad capabilities to intervene in the political and so
 cial geography of a region. This talk will investigate these issues in anc
 ient Epirus\, a region in the northwest of the Balkan peninsula around the
  modern Greece-Albania border. It will argue that royal policy played a cr
 ucial role in the formation of a regional identity in Epirus in the 4th an
 d 3rd centuries BC.\n\nDr Ben D. Raynor is the Moses and Mary Finley Fello
 w at Darwin College\, Cambridge.
LOCATION:The Richard King Room\, Darwin College
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