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X-WR-CALNAME:Carolina Lopez-Ruiz\, "Herodotos on Herakles and Aphrodite\, o
 r the Phoenician-Egyptian entanglement"
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DESCRIPTION:Description: Who is “Egyptian Herakles” and why did Greeks 
 use this title when referring to the Phoenician god Melqart? Why did the a
 ncient Greek historian Herodotos look for Herakles’ origins in Tyre and 
 associate the cult of Aphrodite with the Levantine goddess Ashtart and her
  temple in Ashkelon? In this talk I juxtapose these narratives of divine o
 rigins against the backdrop or artistic developments in early Greece\, whe
 n art in the Aegean and elsewhere in the Mediterranean emulated Levantine 
 and in particular Phoenician models. I will propose that Phoenician modes 
 of representation (including Egyptian and Canaanite inflections) affected 
 perceptions of cultural affiliations and origins.\n\nI will also offer an 
 informal workshop\, for a discussion on the Phoenician project in the west
 ern Mediterranean and the case of Iberia.\n\nBiography: Carolina López-Ru
 iz is Professor of the History of Religions\, Comparative Mythology\, and 
 the Ancient Mediterranean World at the Divinity School and the Department 
 of Classics. Previously she was a Professor of Classics at Ohio State Univ
 ersity. She studied Classical Philology at the Universidad Autónoma de Ma
 drid\, Spain\, and did graduate studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusa
 lem and the University of Chicago\, where she earned her Ph.D. 2005 from t
 he Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World. \n\nShe is the author of 
 When the Gods Were Born: Greek Cosmogonies and the Near East\, Harvard Uni
 versity Press\, 2010)\, and has edited the anthology Gods\, Heroes\, and M
 onsters: A Sourcebook of Greek\, Roman\, and Near Eastern Myths in Transla
 tion (Oxford 2018\, 2nd ed.). She has also co-edited or authored several v
 olumes on colonial relations in the western Mediterranean and Phoenician s
 tudies. In her most recent book\, Phoenicians and the Making of the Medite
 rranean (Harvard University Press\, 2021)\, she offers a fresh appraisal o
 f cultural contact and the Phoenician’s agency during the so-called orie
 ntalizing period. This book received the Frank Moore Cross Award form ASOR
 \, 2022. Prof. López-Ruiz co-directs the University of Chicago excavation
  at the Phoenician site of Cerro del Villar\, Málaga\, in collaboration w
 ith the University of Málaga.\n\nThis talk will not be available on zoom 
 and will not be recorded.
GEO:37.427985;-122.170551
LOCATION:Building 110\, 112
SUMMARY:Carolina Lopez-Ruiz\, "Herodotos on Herakles and Aphrodite\, or the
  Phoenician-Egyptian entanglement"
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 os_on_herakles_and_aphrodite_or_the_phoenician-egyptian_entanglement
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