Dr. Aneurin Ellis-Evans, "New Light on the Mint of Alexandreia Troas in the Hellenistic Period"

Dr. Aneurin Ellis-Evans presents his latest research on the coinage of the Troad in the Hellenistic period, discussing how, in the 2nd and 1st c. BC, the city of Alexandreia Troas in north-west Turkey produced a long-running silver coinage in the name of a local deity, Apollo Smintheus, who is first attested in the opening lines of Homer’s Iliad. This talk presents work in progress on the wealth of new evidence we have for this series which sheds light on the history of Alexandreia Troas during the period of Rome’s conquest of the Greek East.

Dr. Ellis-Evans is Lecturer in Ancient History at Brasenose and St. Anne’s Colleges, Oxford.