Narratives of Power in the Ancient World

Thomas Alexander Husøy is a PhD Candidate at Swansea University, UK, where he researches the development of ethnic identities and federalism in Ancient Greece, focusing especially on the regions of Phocis, Boeotia, Arcadia, and Aetolia from the Archaic period to the Hellenistic. His research interests include ethnosymbolism, myths and politics, genealogies, regionalism, and interstate relations. He obtained his MSc in the Hellenistic World from the University of Edinburgh in 2015.

Henry Bohun is a PhD Candidate at the University of Wales Trinity St David. He obtained his BA in Egyptology and MA in Ancient Egyptian Culture from Swansea University, UK, in 2014 and 2015, respectively. His research focuses on ancient Egyptian royal ideology, kingship, art, and architecture, with particular interest in the late 18th and early 19th Dynasties. His PhD is centred on the reign of Ptolemy II, with an approach primarily rooted in an Egyptological perspective.

Urška Furlan is a PhD Candidate in Egyptology at Swansea University, UK, where she is researching amulets in the first millennium BCE in the Nile Delta. She obtained her BA and MA in Art History at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. She regularly excavates in Egypt and Slovenia and collaborates with the Slovene Ethnographic Museum on projects related to the Slovene explorers of Egypt and Sudan.