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Ancient World Research Cluster Special Lecture

Add to Calendar Ancient World Research Cluster Special LectureThe Florey Room
Lectures and Seminars
Location
The Florey Room
Speakers
Professor Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina
Cluster
Ancient World Cluster
Event type
Lectures and Seminars
Accessibility
There is provision for wheelchair users.
Contact name
Dr Diana Rodríguez Pérez and Dr Sarah Graham
Contact email
ancient.world@wolfson.ox.ac.uk

Retasking Silkworms and Honeybees: Zoroastrian Dualism as Embedded, Embodied and Natural This talk will present a broad overview of ancient and late antique notions of Zoroastrianism Dualism, in which the material world—both natural and human—is seen as a state of ‘mixture’ or a battleground within which the metaphysical forces of ‘Good’ and ‘Evil’ engage in a proxy war. The presentation will attempt to showcase the efficacy of a dualistic religious worldview that maintained a durable advantage for over two millennia from the late Bronze Age to the advent of Islam in the Iranian world in the 7th century CE.