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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#273540">Dear Friends of Classics and Ancient History,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#273540">We are delighted to invite you to the 2nd presentation of Semester 1, 2026 in our Classics and Ancient History research seminar series.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#273540">16<sup>th</sup> March (Monday, 12.15pm UTC+11)
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</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#273540">V. Gordon Childe Boardroom, Madsen Building Level 2.</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#273540">Chair: Prof. Julia Kindt</span></strong><b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:middle"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#273540">Zoom link:
</span><span style="color:black"> </span><span class="sr-only"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#232333;letter-spacing:.3pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"><a href="https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/89574510422">https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/89574510422</a></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#273540"> </span><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#273540">Professor Stefan Pfeiffer (</span></strong><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black;letter-spacing:-.05pt;background:white">Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg</span><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#273540">)</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#273540"><br>
</span><span style="color:#212121">Ethnography and Othering in Herodotus’ Book on Egypt</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#273540"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#273540">Abstract: <o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<span style="color:#212121">What do Herodotus, Dan Brown, and James Frey have in common?</span><span style="color:#273540">”
</span><span style="color:#212121">This lecture<br>
takes up this provocative question: Does Herodotus actually manipulate<br>
his material—and if so, what does this reveal about his aims as an<br>
ethnographer and historian? By examining his Egyptian ethnography, we<br>
will explore how Herodotus navigates the boundaries between eyewitness<br>
testimony, literary construction, and the shaping of cultural<br>
“Otherness.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121">Drawing on recent scholarship and close readings of selected passages,<br>
the talk considers whether Herodotus’ claims to authenticity represent<br>
rhetorical strategies, creative adaptation, or sincere attempts at<br>
truth-telling. In light of modern debates around narrative reliability<br>
and authorial intent, the lecture invites the audience to reconsider the<br>
relationship between fact and fiction in Herodotus—and to reflect on<br>
what ethnographic “truth” can mean, then and now.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#273540"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#273540">Biography: <o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:-.05pt;background:white;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Stefan Pfeiffer is Full Professor in Ancient History at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
</span><span style="color:#333333;background:white;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:-.05pt;background:white;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">(since 2013), before this he was Professor for “Ancient World and Europe” at Technische Universität
</span><span style="color:#333333;background:white;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:-.05pt;background:white;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Chemnitz (2010-2013) and Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at Chemnitz University (2012-2013).
</span><span style="color:#333333;background:white;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:-.05pt;background:white;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">His areas of specialisation are the history of Graeco-Roman Egypt, ruler cult in antiquity and
</span><span style="color:#333333;background:white;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Judaism in Alexandria.
</span><span style="color:#333333;background:white;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:-.05pt;background:white;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">He has among other aspects worked on multilingual texts from Egypt (the Decree of Canopus
</span><span style="color:#333333;background:white;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:-.05pt;background:white;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">and the victory stela of C. Cornelius Gallus) and has published a book on emperor cult in Egypt
</span><span style="color:#333333;background:white;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:-.05pt;background:white;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">(2010). He has written a study-book on Greek and Latin epigraphical records from Egypt (2015,
</span><span style="color:#333333;background:white;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:-.05pt;background:white;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">second augmented edition 2020) and has published a general overview on the Ptolemaic Empire
</span><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:-.05pt;background:white">(2017). <o:p>
</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:-.05pt;background:white"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:-.05pt;background:white">Forthcoming is a commentary on 3 Maccabees.</span><span style="color:#333333;background:white;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#919191;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">DR TAMARA NEAL FHEA | Lecturer in Ancient Greek (Education Focused) | Academic Advisor
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Classics & Ancient History | School of Philosophical & Historical Inquiry | Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences<br>
THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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