Friday 26 September 2014 9:00am to Saturday 27 September 2014 3:00pm
Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA
About
Friday, September 26
9:00 Opening Remarks: Paul Millett & Paul Christesen
9: 15: Josh Ober, "The Sparta Game: Violence, proportionality, austerity"
10.00: Kurt Raaflaub –“Early Greek Political Thought and the Ancient Near East: Problems and Considerations”
10:45: Break
11:00: Wilfried Nippel, “Marx and Antiquity”
11:45: Konstantinos Vlassopoulos, “Marxism and ancient history”
12:30: Lunch
1:30: Carol Atack, “‘Cyrus appeared both great and beautiful’: Xenophon and the performativity of kingship”
2:15: Robin Osborne, “Greek pederasty: an illustrated history”
3:00: Break
3:15: Edith Hall, “The boys from Cydathenaeum: how to do things with Cleon”
4:00: Lene Rubinstein, “Exiles in Athens in the fourth century B.C.”
4:45: Break
5:00: Keynote: Timothy Whitmarsh, “History, Chance and Resistance in the Roman World”
6:15: Drinks Reception
Saturday, September 27
9:00: Emily Greenwood, “Pericles's Utopia - a reading of Thucydides and Plato”
9:45: Alastair Blanshard, “The Observable Life of the Athenian Juror”
10:30: Break
10:45: Walter Scheidel, “The (ancient) West and the rest: labor regimes in global perspective”
11:30: Jeremy Tanner, “The use and abuse of Tyrannicides, in word and image, in classical Athens and early imperial China”
12:15: Lunch
1:30: Melissa Lane, “Plato’s Spartan Reflections”
2:15 – 3:00 pm Closing Remarks: Paul Cartledge
Attendance
In order for us to track numbers for the drinks reception on Friday and lunch on Saturday, we would kindly ask that you indicate your attendance to Ms. Laura McCune at lmccune@ias.edu. Many thanks.
Further information
Questions about the conference can be directed to Danielle Allen (dsallen@ias.edu), Paul Christesen (Paul.Christesen@dartmouth.edu) or Paul Millett (pcm1000@dow.cam.ac.uk).
Contact
Ms Laura McCune