13:00 Gathering 

13:30 Greetings Prof. David Harel, President, The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities 

13:30 1st Session 

Chair: Prof. Margalit Finkelberg, Vice President, The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities 

Prof. Walter Ameling, University of Cologne Coexistence and Interactions of Ethnic Groups in Alexandria 

Prof. Maren R. Niehoff, Academy Member, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem “The Pillars of Caesarea were crying when Rabbi Abbahu died”: A Mediterranean City as a Melting Pot of Cultures 

Dr. Rivka Gersht, Tel Aviv University Between Caesarea Maritima and the Roman Emperors as Manifested by Archaeological Findings 

15:30 Break

16:00 2nd Session  

Chair: Prof. Youval Rotman, Tel Aviv University 

Prof. Daniela Dueck, Bar-Ilan University Common Sense Geography as Epic Strategy in Virgil׳s Aeneid

Dr. Yuval Shahar, Tel Aviv University Testing the Limits: A Historian of the Roman Empire Sheds New Light on  Jewish Eretz Israel 

Prof. Jonathan Price, Tel Aviv University Ethnicity and Internal Wars in Antiquity 

Prof. Benjamin Henri Isaac Words from the Honoree

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