This event is hosted by the Center for Historical Research in the Department of History and co-sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Department of Anthropology.
The 160’s BCE was the critical decade in Ptolemaic history. Environmental factors have never been considered, until now, in the understanding of social dynamics, or in the economic, military and fiscal history of the dynasty.
Joseph Manning, the Simpson Professor of History and Classics at Yale University, Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School, and Professor in the Yale School of the Environment, will share a new chronology considering volcanic eruptions from polar ice core analysis to re-evaluate historical dynamics within Egypt and to tie events in Egypt to those across the Indian Ocean in the same years.
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