Phrygia Between the East and the West Day Two

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The Department of Humanities of the University of Pavia in collaboration with the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World of New York University have organized a conference in Pavia on April 7-9, 2022. This collaborative conference brings together experts and young scholars to discuss the themes presented above which emerged from the homonymous joint UNIPV – ISAW graduate seminar of Spring 2021: "Phrygia between the East and the West".

The question of the definition of contrastive identities between the East and the West has always been central to understanding the Mediterranean, the European, and, today also, the Atlantic world. In the reassessment of the values and fundaments of a new, diverse, and inclusive society, the legacy of the Greco-Roman world on western political identity as ‘the exemplum’ is under scrutiny. The discussion, often led by non-experts, however, involves a too simplistic understanding of the…