‘Rule and Revenue, Fiscality, Authority and Economic Power in the Hellenistic World’
Department of Archaeology, Classics, and Egyptology, University of Liverpool
28-29 May 2026
The Walbank Lecture Theatre, 12-14 Abercromby Square, Liverpool L69 7WZ
Organisers: Dr Beatrice Pestarino & Dr Charlotte Van Regenmortel
Contact: Beatrice.pestarino@liverpool.ac.uk or cvr@liverpool.ac.uk
For those interested in attending online, please contact one of the two organisers. The conference is sponsored by Leverhulme Trust, the University of Liverpool, the Institute of Classical Studies (ICS), and the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies (SPHS).
Conference Programme
Day 1 | Venue: The Walbank Lecture Theatre, 12-14 Abercromby Square
09:15-09:30
Coffee and Arrival
09.30-09.45
Introduction
Session 1
09.45-10.20 A review of isoteleia in Hellenistic cities: marker of legal status, source of income, and economic tool?
Prof. Christel Müller, Université Paris Nanterre
10.20-10.55 Burdensome timai: Cost Management of Honorific Politics in Hellenistic Cities
Dr Stefano Caneva (online), University of Padova
10.55-11.25
Coffee and Tea Break
Session 2
11.25-12.00 Revenues, Rulers and the Ruled in the Cycladic Islands
Dr Elizabeth Foley, Sorbonne University
12.00-12.35 What you pay is what you get!? Sales of priest(ess)hoods in Hellenistic poleis in Asia Minor
Dr Julietta Steinhauer, UCL
12.35-14.00
Lunch
Session 3
14.00-14.35 Debt and hypothecation variations in smaller Poleis in the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE
Dr Timothy McConnell, University of Leeds
14.35-15.10 The Fleet, a Failure, and Finances: The Macedonian Navy, Cleitus the White, and control of the royal treasury after Alexander’s death
Dr Oliver Clarke, University of Oxford
15.10-15.40
Coffee and Tea Break
Session 4
15.40-16.15 Shifting the Cost: Royal Garrisons as an Antigonid Fiscal Strategy
Dr Katerina Panagopoulou (online), University of Crete
16.15-16.50 Paying for Rule: Revenue, Expenditure, and Antigonid Authority in Greece
Dr Emma Nicholson, University of Exeter
16.50-17.00
Conclusions
19.30
Conference Dinner (Location tbc)
Day 2 | Venue: The Walbank Lecture Theatre, 12-14 Abercromby Square
09:15-09:30
Coffee and Arrival
Session 5
9:30-10.05 The Role of Money in the Monarchy of Philip V
Dr Monica D’Agostini, University of Bergamo
10.05-10.40 ‘Neutral’ Coins, Royal Power? Proxy Production and Royal Authority in Hellenistic Coinage
Finn Conway, University of Oxford
10.40-11.15 Lysimachus and his elusive kingship of Thrace; the significance of coined money and of inscribed words
Dr Zosia Archibald, University of Liverpool
11.15-11.30
Coffee and Tea Break
Session 6
11.30-12.30 Keynote Lecture
Salt, Taxes, and Monopolies in Ptolemaic Egypt and Han China
Prof. Andrew Monson, University of Wurzburg
12.30-12.45
Conclusions
12.45
Lunch
Note: this is not a Classical Association event – please contact the organisers directly with any enquiries.