International Symposium ‘Foreign Rule in Hellenistic Greece and Egypt. Local Contexts and Perspectives’ in Münster

From 22 to 24 October 2025, the international symposium ‘Foreign Rule in Hellenistic Greece and Egypt. Local Contexts and Perspectives’ will take place in Münster, organised by the Department of Ancient History and Subproject 1 of the Xenocracy Research Group. The event is organised by Prof. Dr. Hans Beck, FRSC (Münster) and Prof. Dr. Patrick Sänger (Münster).  The symposium begins on 22 October at 18:15 with the lecture ‘Ein „Indian Summer“ der griechischen Poleis im 2. Jh. v. Chr.? Zu den Auswirkungen und Konsequenzen römischer Fremdherrschaft in Griechenland’ by Klaus Freitag (Aachen) in the Studiobühne of the University of Münster. This will be followed by a reception in the foyer of the Studiobühne.

The other lectures on 23 and 24 October will take place in JO1 at the University of Münster.

You can download the flyer here (PDF file).

Programme:

Wednesday, October 22
Studiobühne der Universität Münster

18.15
Klaus Freitag (Aachen)
Ein „Indian Summer“ der griechischen Poleis im 2. Jh. v. Chr.? Zu den Auswirkungen und Konsequenzen römischer Fremdherrschaft in Griechenland

The presentation will be followed by a beginning-of-year party in the foyer of the Studiobühne, sponsered by the Department of Ancient History.

Thursday, October 23
JO 101, Johannisstraße 4

9.00
Welcome

9.30
Frank Daubner (Trier)
Local Administration under the Antigonids: Negotiating Foreign Rule in Hellenistic Greece

10.10
Emma Aston (Reading)
Was Antigonid control of Thessaly really a xenocracy?

Coffee break

11.30
Hans Beck (Münster)
Ptolemaic rule in Greece

12.10 Eliza Gettel (Villanova)
Translating Rome’s Politeia as a Hellene: Greek Federalism as Political Imaginary

Lunch break

15.00
Muriel Moser-Gerber (Münster)
How foreign was Roman rule in Greece?

15.40
Charikleia Armoni (Köln)
The Evolution of the Judicial System in Ptolemaic Egypt

16.50
Dan Dana (Paris)
The military domination of space by Ptolemies in Egypt 19:30 Coffee break Dinner

Friday, October 24
JO 101, Johannisstraße 4

9.30
Niklot Lingnau (Münster)
Change and Continuity in Xenocratic Egypt The Strategos as a Case Study Between Ptolemaic and Roman Ages

10.10
Bernhard Palme (Wien)
Occupying Power or Respected Guardians of Order? Roman Soldiers in the Egyptian Chora

11.20
Patrick Sänger (Münster)
Xenocracy in Late Antique Egypt? Some Considerations