Margaret Heavey Memorial Lecture

Margaret Heavey Memorial Lecture

by Dr Eoghan Moloney, Maynooth University:
‘Old New Kings: Alexander the Great and the Presentation of Power’

Abstract: This talk will look at the literary presentation of the Macedonian kings in early history, aiming to reconsider how the rule of the Argead kings was presented and understood by contemporaries. At the heart of this investigation is the inevitable contrast of Philip II and Alexander III, emphasizing the limits of many stock comparisons and highlighting, instead, the subtlety of the approach of the ancient Macedonians.

Speaker: Dr Eoghan Moloney is Lecturer in Ancient History in the Department of Ancient Classics, returning to Maynooth having formerly been senior lecturer in Classical Studies at the University of Winchester (2015–2022) as well as lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Adelaide (2006–2012). Eoghan took both BA & MA in Maynooth and then then moved to Darwin College, Cambridge, where he completed his PhD on the cultural history of the ancient Macedonians in the Faculty of Classics. That remains a key topic of interest, with a new History of Macedonia in preparation for publication by Bloomsbury. But Eoghan has also published on the reception of Classics in Ireland and on the topic of peace in antiquity (Peace and Reconciliation in the Classical World (Routledge 2017, with Michael Williams).

Reception to follow. All welcome!