Monday, September 22, 2003
USI colloquium examining ancient arbitration
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Dr. Michael D. Dixon, USI assistant professor of history, will present "A Diplomatic Solution is Preferable: The Use of International Arbitration to Resolve a Boarder Conflict between Troizen and Ptolmaic Arsinoe," a lecture in University of Southern Indiana’s Liberal Arts Colloquium, at 3:30 p.m. Friday, September 26, in Kleymeyer Hall in the Liberal Arts Center. In the 170s B.C., the Achaian League member state Troizen and the Ptolemaic outpost of Arsinoe had a border dispute. A record of the dispute and its settlement are preserved on two duplicate stelai, one discovered at the Epidaurian Sanctuary of Asklepios and the other in Troiazen. “A stele (Stelai is plural.) is a stone on which a text is inscribed,” Dixon explained. “In other words, I study epigraphy, or texts written on stone, specifically ancient Greek ones. I have been researching for several years cases of arbitration between Greek city-states that had disputes over their boundaries. The evidence for these disputes is the record of them that the Greeks inscribed on stone stelai.” The presentation will explore the epigraphical texts that preserve the results of the arbitration, the circumstances that led to the dispute's settlement by arbitration, and the method by which it was settled. Dixon joined the University in 2000, the same year he earned a Ph.D. at Ohio State University. The colloquium is a free lecture series featuring faculty research in the School of Liberal Arts. |
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