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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-weight: 700;">Professor Stefan Pfeiffer</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-weight: 500;"> (Martin-Luther-Universität
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-weight: 500;">Asterix and Cleopatra: Translating Antiquity into the Modern World from Comic to Film.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-weight: 500;">What if a comic could rewrite history? Asterix and Cleopatra (1963) does<br>
just that—blending myth, satire, and sharp political commentary in a<br>
story set in Ptolemaic Egypt. Far from mere entertainment, this classic<br>
parodies Hollywood spectacle while offering a biting reflection on<br>
colonialism, power, and French identity.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-weight: 500;">The comic presents Egypt as a land of decadence, slavery, and<br>
architectural incompetence and Cleopatra’s "genius" depends entirely on<br>
the Gauls. Yet this caricature wasn’t invented by Goscinny and Uderzo;<br>
it echoes Roman propaganda (Horace’s "whore of the Nile") and<br>
19th-century Orientalism. Meanwhile, the indomitable Gauls stand in for<br>
modern France: clever, egalitarian, and fiercely resistant to foreign<br>
rule.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-weight: 500;">With humor and hidden depth, Asterix and Cleopatra reveals how history<br>
is constructed—and deconstructed. The paper will try to uncover the<br>
comic’s political subtexts, from colonial nostalgia to 20th cent.<br>
misogyny, and why a story about ancient Egypt still shapes how we see<br>
the past.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(39, 53, 64);"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(39, 53, 64);"><b>Biography: </b></span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; background-color: white;">Stefan Pfeiffer is Full Professor in Ancient History at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg </span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; background-color: white;">(since 2013), before this he was Professor for “Ancient World and Europe” at Technische Universität </span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; background-color: white;">Chemnitz (2010-2013) and Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at Chemnitz University (2012-2013). </span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; background-color: white;">His areas of specialisation are the history of Graeco-Roman Egypt, ruler cult in antiquity and </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; background-color: white;">Judaism in Alexandria. </span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; background-color: white;">He has among other aspects worked on multilingual texts from Egypt (the Decree of Canopus </span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; background-color: white;">and the victory stela of C. Cornelius Gallus) and has published a book on emperor cult in Egypt </span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; background-color: white;">(2010). He has written a study-book on Greek and Latin epigraphical records from Egypt (2015, </span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; background-color: white;">second augmented edition 2020) and has published a general overview on the Ptolemaic Empire (2017). </span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; background-color: white;">Forthcoming is a commentary on 3 Maccabees.</span></p>
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