Join us for a talk exploring whether an ethnographic tradition existed in the Achaemenid Persian world and how this may relate to, challenge, or illuminate the better-known Greek (especially Herodotean) ethnographic perspectives. The lecture will examine cross-cultural narrative exchanges and historical approaches in the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds.
Title: Was There Ever an Achaemenid Persian Tradition of Ethnography?
Tracing Back the Dialogue Between Ancient Greek (Herodotean) and Ancient Persian Ethnographic–Historical Perspectives
Speaker: Antigoni Zournatzi
Host: University of California, Irvine — Jordan Center for Persian Studies
Date: Thursday, December 4
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Humanities Gateway (HG) Room 1010, UCI
This event is free and open to the public.