Friday 18 September 2015 Salle 2, Site Marcelin Berthelot Open to all, subject to availability 10:30 - 11:30 Download audio Speaker(s) Ahmed El Shamsy Events Previous Symposium 18 Sep 2015 10:00 - 10:30am John Scheid Opening Symposium 18 Sep 2015 10:30 - 11:30am Ahmed El Shamsy Galenic Elements in Muslim Theology Symposium 18 Sep 2015 11:30am - 12:30pm Jean-Luc Fournet The impact of the Persian and Arab conquests on the practice of Greek in Egypt (7th-8th c… Symposium 18 Sep 2015 2:30 - 3:30pm Karin Krause Art and Ekphrasis in Late Antiquity Symposium 18 Sep 2015 3:30 - 4:30pm Constantin Zuckerman Wandering Tales: Byzantine Military Epos between Persia and Latin West Symposium 18 Sep 2015 4:30 - 5:30pm John Scheid Transfers of gods and cults from East to West between 3rd c. BC and 3rd c. AD. Symposium 18 Sep 2015 5:30 - 6:30pm Richard Payne A Cosmopolitan Court: The Iranian Appropriation of Greco-Roman and South Asian Thought in Late Antiq… Next See also John Scheid, chair Religion, institutions and society in ancient Rome Cultural exchanges between East and West, from Hellenistic to Byzantine times