Alexander’s Heirs or the Birth of the Hellenistic State
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The 2026 Carte Blanche series gives the Paris IAS fellows, the opportunity to share their perspectives on a topic of their choice related to the major challenges facing contemporary societies. This Carte Blanche is presented by Christelle Fischer-Bovet, Professor at the University of Southern California and Research Fellow at the Paris Institute for Advanced Study (Paris IAS) for the 2025–2026 academic year.
Alexander’s Heirs or the Birth of the Hellenistic State
The Groupe d’études des mondes hellénistiques presents its book entitled The Leopard’s Strategy. The Ptolemaic and Seleucid States in the second century B.C. (Brill, Antike Imperien), a study written by eleven historians that challenges the notion of a period of crisis by comparing the challenges faced by the Seleucids and the Ptolemies and the adaptations they implemented. Through interviews with members of the group and a visit to the Sorbonne Institute of Papyrology to explore a unique type of source material, the book highlights a pivotal moment in the history of the state, as power shifted from being entirely dependent on the person of the king to becoming institutionalized.
Timeline
00:00 Introduction
00:21 Christelle Fischer-Bovet (University of Southern California, IEA de Paris 2025-2026) – Les héritiers d'Alexandre : migration et multiculturalisme
04:46 Laetitia Graslin-Thomé et Catherine Apicella – La stratégie du guépard : les États lagide et séleucide au IIe siècle av. J.-C.
22:33 Philippe Clancier (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Julien Monerie (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) et Omar Coloru (Università degli Studi di Bari) – Le monde séleucide
36:08 Stéphanie Wackenier (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, visite de l'Institut de papyrologie de la Sorbonne), Anne-Emmanuelle Veïsse (Université Gustave Eiffel) et Christelle Fischer-Bovet – Le monde lagide
55:44 Laetitia Graslin-Thomé (Université de Lorraine) et Gilles Gorre (Université de Caen Normandie) – Approche comparative
59:45 Conclusion – Une histoire d'adaptation des institutions étatiques
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