Domitian and the East, International Conference at the Anargyrios and Korgialenios School Spetses, Greece – June 30-July 2, 2019
Organizers: Antony Augoustakis (Illinois), Emma Buckley (St Andrews), Nathalie de Haan (Nijmegen), Aurora Raimondi Cominesi (Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden), and Claire Stocks (Newcastle)
Programme
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SUNDAY, JUNE 30, 2019
19:00-20:00 (1st session, plenary)
- Aurora Raimondi Cominesi (Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden)
Thinking about Domitian and the East: Preliminary Overview of an Upcoming Exhibition (Contributors: Eric M. Moormann (Radboud), Nathalie de Haan (Radboud), Claire Stocks (Newcastle))
MONDAY, JULY 1, 2019
09:00 – 10:30 (2nd session) Eastern Poetics
- Ana Loio (Lisbon)
The East in my Living-Room:Geography, Archaeology, and the Poetics of Stones in Statius’ Silvae
- Esther Meijer (Durham)
The Emperor and the East in Flavian Panegyric Poetry
10:30 – 11:00 (break)
11:00 – 12:30 (3rd session) Domitian in Ephesus
- Abigail Graham (Warwick)
Mad, Bad or Misunderstood? Domitian’s Public Image at Ephesos
- Ketty Iannantuono (Nijmegen)
Monumentalizing a neokorate City: A Thick Description of the Domitian Square at Ephesus
12:30 – 13:30 (Lunch)
13:30 – 15:00 (4th session) Domitian and Literary Culture
- Federica Bessone (Turin)
Hero of Two Worlds: Domitian in Statius’ Poetry
- Peter Heslin (Durham)
Domitian and Greek Literary Culture
15:00 – 18:00 (break)
18:00 – 19:00 (5th session, plenary) Domitian and Egypt
- Olaf Kaper (Leiden)
Domitian and the Temples of Egypt
19:30 Banquet/Symposium
TUESDAY, JULY 2, 2019
09:00 – 10:30 (6th session) Games and the Emperor
- Nathalie De Haan (Nijmegen)
Domitian and the Ludi Capitolini
- Ray Marks (Missouri)
Roman Self and Non-Roman Other: Scipio’s Games in Punica16
10:30 – 11:00 (break)
11:00 – 12:30 (7thsession) Africa
- Joy Littlewood (Oxford)
From Epic Catalogue to Imperial Inventory: Hannibal’s African Army in Silius Italicus’ Punica
- Angeliki Roumpou (Nottingham)
Representations of Africa: Zama, the New urbs orbisin Silius Italicus’ Punica
12:30 – 13:30 (Lunch)
13:30 – 15:00 (8thsession) Domitian and Greek Myth
- Nikoletta Manioti (St. Andrews)
Maps and the Emperor
- Stephen Froedge (Illinois)
Arachne and the Minotaur: The Forum Transitorium and Statius Thebaid
15:00 – 18:00 (break)
18:00 – 19:00 (9thsession, plenary) Domitian and the East
- Alison Keith (Toronto)
Domitian and the East in Martial’s Epigrams
19:00-19:45 Concluding Remarks and Future Plans
20:00 Banquet/Symposium