Archaeology Lecture Series Presents Robert Rollinger
Professor Robert Rollinger (Universität Innsbruck) will speak on "The Achaemenid Exchange: New Dimensions of Afro-Eurasian Entanglement.”
Recent scholarship still describes the Achaemenid-Persian empire as a passive monolith without real interest in trans-regional exchange and trade. According to this view, the empire did not play any role in early processes of “Proto-Globalization,” which are supposed to have started only with Alexander III and the Hellenistic Age. The lecture will challenge this view by re-evaluating the dynamics of the Achaemenid-Persian empire. It will demonstrate that the empire was a driving force of Afro-Eurasian entanglement that started long before Macedonians and Greeks were showing up in the Middle East.
Refreshments will be available at 3:45 p.m. outside Old Library 224
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