Conference Programme
Wednesday 19th February, 2014
9:00am-9:30am: Registration (Tea and Coffee Provided)
9:30am-11:00am: Latin Language and Literature
Jennifer Hilder (Glasgow) “When is a textbook not a textbook?: Re-thinking Roman education with the Rhetorica ad Herennium”
Caroline Cowles (Royal Holloway) “Accentus est quasi anima vocis: Different approaches to the teaching of Latin accent in the Late Latin Grammarians”
Sarah Graham (Glasgow) “What the Hell? Vergilian Influences on Prudentius' Underworld”
11:00am-11:30am: Morning Tea (Tea and Coffee Provided)
11:30am-1:00pm: Greek Religion and Culture
Ellie Mackin (King’s College, London) “Global Mapping, Local Rites: Panhellenism and Greek Communities”
Lawrence Miścicki (Krakow) “Between hero and hoplite. Warrior in the iconography of the Archaic Greece”
Simone Agrimonti (Genoa) “The Egalitarianism of the Hoplite Phalanx”
1:00pm-2:00pm: Lunch (Light Refreshments Provided)
2:00pm-3:30pm: Late Antique History and Religion
Ian McElroy (Glasgow) “Temple to church: Understanding the Conversion of the Temple of Dionysus at Gerasa”
Belinda Washington (Edinburgh) “Theodosius I's Dynastic Takeover”
Hugh Thompson (Edinburgh) "Wonderful but useless – a new religion confronts the visual culture of Greece and Rome”
3:30pm-4:00pm: Afternoon Tea
4:00pm-5:30pm: Classical Reception
Georgina Barker (Edinburgh) “Homer as the ‘first source’ for the poetry of Ilya Kutik”
Jessica Anderson (Leeds) “The Uses and Abuses of Julius Caesar: Caesar and his Interpretation in Modern Media”
Pedro Baroni Schmidt (São Paulo) “Neronian Literature and Carolingian Literature: Aspects of Lucan's Bellum Civile in the Waltharius”
5:30pm-6:00pm: Pre-Keynote Reception
6:00pm-7:00pm: Keynote Address: Dr. Donncha O’Rourke (University of Edinburgh), “History repeating itself: Propertius, the Aeneid, and the Spolia Opima”.
8:00pm: Conference Dinner, Spoon (6a Nicolson street, Edinburgh EH8 9DH)
Thursday 20th February, 2014
9:00am-10:30am: Roman Religion and Culture
Fabrizio Biglino (Royal Holloway) “War Losses and Population: The Case of the Second Punic War”
David Farag (Brock) “Conjugal Affection: Marital Relations and the “Ideal” in the Late Republic”
Young-Chae Kim (Oxford) “The Nocelli farm at Luceria: a clue to the Gracchan countryside”
10:30am-11:00am: Morning Tea (Tea and Coffee Provided)
11:00am-12:30pm: Greek Poetry
Nicholas Hanson (Oxford), “Fragments of Manteia: Seers in the Epic Cycle”
Gary Vos (Edinburgh) “Teaching Pleasure and Wisdom: Callimachus’ Lini (Fr. 23, 253-26 Hdr.) and Plato’s Educational Views”
Kate Cook (Reading) “Praise and Heroic Identity in Euripides' Heracles: A new reading of Heracles' choice between heroism and family”
12:30pm-1:30pm: Lunch (Light Refreshments Provided)
1:30pm-3:00pm: Historiography
Camilla Condilo (Cambridge) “History and genealogy in the Histories – or why Herodotus did not give his own genealogy (Hdt. 2.143)”
Lorenzo Focanti (Ghent) “Between Porus and Chandragupta Maurya: the historical background of Megasthenes’ Indica”
Victoria Rota (Wales, Trinity St. David) “The Purposes of Using the Poetry in the ‘Universal History’ of Diodorus Siculus”
3:00pm-3:30pm: Afternoon Tea (Tea and Coffee Provided)
3:30pm-5:00pm: Philosophy
Nicolò Benzi (Durham) “The semantics of noein and its derivatives in the poems of Xenophanes and Parmenides”
Aiste Celkyte (St. Andrews) “Thought Experiments in Stoicism”
Mariapaola Bergomi (Milan) “Like a Flute-Prelude: Neologisms in Plato’s Cratylus”
5:00pm-5:30pm: Closing Remarks
End of Conference.
9:00am-9:30am: Registration (Tea and Coffee Provided)
9:30am-11:00am: Latin Language and Literature
Jennifer Hilder (Glasgow) “When is a textbook not a textbook?: Re-thinking Roman education with the Rhetorica ad Herennium”
Caroline Cowles (Royal Holloway) “Accentus est quasi anima vocis: Different approaches to the teaching of Latin accent in the Late Latin Grammarians”
Sarah Graham (Glasgow) “What the Hell? Vergilian Influences on Prudentius' Underworld”
11:00am-11:30am: Morning Tea (Tea and Coffee Provided)
11:30am-1:00pm: Greek Religion and Culture
Ellie Mackin (King’s College, London) “Global Mapping, Local Rites: Panhellenism and Greek Communities”
Lawrence Miścicki (Krakow) “Between hero and hoplite. Warrior in the iconography of the Archaic Greece”
Simone Agrimonti (Genoa) “The Egalitarianism of the Hoplite Phalanx”
1:00pm-2:00pm: Lunch (Light Refreshments Provided)
2:00pm-3:30pm: Late Antique History and Religion
Ian McElroy (Glasgow) “Temple to church: Understanding the Conversion of the Temple of Dionysus at Gerasa”
Belinda Washington (Edinburgh) “Theodosius I's Dynastic Takeover”
Hugh Thompson (Edinburgh) "Wonderful but useless – a new religion confronts the visual culture of Greece and Rome”
3:30pm-4:00pm: Afternoon Tea
4:00pm-5:30pm: Classical Reception
Georgina Barker (Edinburgh) “Homer as the ‘first source’ for the poetry of Ilya Kutik”
Jessica Anderson (Leeds) “The Uses and Abuses of Julius Caesar: Caesar and his Interpretation in Modern Media”
Pedro Baroni Schmidt (São Paulo) “Neronian Literature and Carolingian Literature: Aspects of Lucan's Bellum Civile in the Waltharius”
5:30pm-6:00pm: Pre-Keynote Reception
6:00pm-7:00pm: Keynote Address: Dr. Donncha O’Rourke (University of Edinburgh), “History repeating itself: Propertius, the Aeneid, and the Spolia Opima”.
8:00pm: Conference Dinner, Spoon (6a Nicolson street, Edinburgh EH8 9DH)
Thursday 20th February, 2014
9:00am-10:30am: Roman Religion and Culture
Fabrizio Biglino (Royal Holloway) “War Losses and Population: The Case of the Second Punic War”
David Farag (Brock) “Conjugal Affection: Marital Relations and the “Ideal” in the Late Republic”
Young-Chae Kim (Oxford) “The Nocelli farm at Luceria: a clue to the Gracchan countryside”
10:30am-11:00am: Morning Tea (Tea and Coffee Provided)
11:00am-12:30pm: Greek Poetry
Nicholas Hanson (Oxford), “Fragments of Manteia: Seers in the Epic Cycle”
Gary Vos (Edinburgh) “Teaching Pleasure and Wisdom: Callimachus’ Lini (Fr. 23, 253-26 Hdr.) and Plato’s Educational Views”
Kate Cook (Reading) “Praise and Heroic Identity in Euripides' Heracles: A new reading of Heracles' choice between heroism and family”
12:30pm-1:30pm: Lunch (Light Refreshments Provided)
1:30pm-3:00pm: Historiography
Camilla Condilo (Cambridge) “History and genealogy in the Histories – or why Herodotus did not give his own genealogy (Hdt. 2.143)”
Lorenzo Focanti (Ghent) “Between Porus and Chandragupta Maurya: the historical background of Megasthenes’ Indica”
Victoria Rota (Wales, Trinity St. David) “The Purposes of Using the Poetry in the ‘Universal History’ of Diodorus Siculus”
3:00pm-3:30pm: Afternoon Tea (Tea and Coffee Provided)
3:30pm-5:00pm: Philosophy
Nicolò Benzi (Durham) “The semantics of noein and its derivatives in the poems of Xenophanes and Parmenides”
Aiste Celkyte (St. Andrews) “Thought Experiments in Stoicism”
Mariapaola Bergomi (Milan) “Like a Flute-Prelude: Neologisms in Plato’s Cratylus”
5:00pm-5:30pm: Closing Remarks
End of Conference.