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<<AMPAH 2006>>
18th March at the University of Exeter
Please find below the provisional programme for this years Annual Meeting of
Postgraduates in Ancient History.
Could all those wishing to attend this (free, enjoyable and postgraduate
based) conference please let the Exeter AMPAH team know by contacting Mike
Beer at [log in to unmask] Information concerning travel, accomodation,
catering and the conference itself can be found at
http://www.huss.ex.ac.uk/classics/conferences/ampah2006/home.html.
Alternatively please direct any queries to Mr. Beer.
Thank you.
The Exeter AMPAH Team.
<<AMPAH 2006 CONFERENCE TIMETABLE>>
9.00 Introduction.
9.30 First session.
Group A.
A BIG MEAL & THEN A NICE SLEEP: FOOD AND DRUGS IN ANTIQUITY.
* The relationship between food and morality in the Scriptores Historiae
Augustae.
Michael Beer, University of Exeter.
* Papaver somniferum (L): The opium poppy seed capsule as a cult item.
Joyce Reeves, University of Exeter.
Group B.
MILITARY DEBATES IN THE FIFTH CENTURY BC.
* Conon and Evagoras before Aegospotami.
Luca Asmonti, King’s College London.
* The debate between the Tegeans and the Athenians (Hdt. 9.26-27).
Vasiliki Zali, University College London.
Group C.
GETTING STARTED...ROME'S FOUNDATIONS.
* The ‘Sibylline Books’ in the Fifth Century BC.
Sarah Bell, King’s College London.
* Rome’s ‘Ignoble Hero’: Responding to Strasburger’s “difficulties” with
Romulus.
Louise Aitchison, University College, Dublin.
Group D.
ISLANDS AND KINSHIP: HISTORY, CULT AND COLONISATION.
* Kinship in Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War: the case of the
Kerkyraika narrative (i.24-55).
Maria Fragoulaki, University College London.
* Cultic, colonizing and kinship relations between ancient Crete and other
islands.
Carolyn Schofield, University College London.
10:30 Coffee.
11.00 Second session.
Group A.
TRANSGRESSION AND CONFUSION IN GREEK CULT.
* Masks and Mischwesen.
Emma Aston, University of Exeter.
* Defining the Boundaries of the Underworld: The Role of Persephone in
Katabatic Accounts.
Shizuyo Okada, Lincoln College, University of Oxford.
* Leader of nymphs, killer of women: Artemis in Sparta and Athens.
Helen Tarbet, University of Durham.
Group B.
DOING THE RIGHT THING: GREEK MORALITY AND ETHICS.
* Moralizing in Diodorus Siculus.
Lisa Irene Hau, Royal Holloway, University of London.
* Military Ethics in the Writing of History: Thucydides and Diodorus on Delion.
Sonya Nevin, University College Dublin.
Group C.
'NEW WORLDS & NEW HEROES? READING CORNISH AND SPARTACAN MODELS'.
* Spartacus: proletariat, Pole or Christ?
Leanne Hunnings, University of Durham.
* “The inhabitants of the promontory called Belerion were more civilised…”:
Diodorus Siculus and Cornish Historians.
Cara Sheldrake, University of Reading.
12.30 Lunch.
13.30 GABRIEL BODARD: IT RESOURCES FOR ANCIENT HISTORIANS.
14.30 Coffee.
15.00 Third session.
Group A.
'MAPPING & MINING-GEOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY IN THE ANCIENT WORLD'.
* The silver-producing regions in the Greek World.
Errietta Bissa, University College London.
* Conquest and Exploration: Alexander the Great’s Soldiers and the
Organisation of Central Asian Geography.
Gillian Ramsey, University of Exeter.
Group B.
KINGS AND MEN: PTOLEMAIC AND ROMAN RULE IN EGYPT.
* Between propaganda and literary games: Asclepius’ cult at the Ptolemaic court.
Dr Margherita Maria Di Nino, University of Cambridge.
* Reconstructing the life course of an Egyptian family under Roman rule: the
case of Kronion (P.Kron).
Ryosuke Takahashi, King’s College London.
Group C.
GETTING INTO THEIR STRIDE NOW...ROMAN REPUBLICAN MATTERS.
* Ancestry matters: Cicero’s political strategy as a new man.
Henriette van der Blom, Brasenose College, University of Oxford.
* Roman seaborne raids during the mid Republic: sideshow or headline feature?
Edward Bragg, Wadham College, University of Oxford.
16.00 Cream tea.
16.30 PLENARY ADDRESS BY PETER WISEMAN: 'HUNTING THE WILD
MYTHOLOGEM'.
17.30 Reception.
19.00 Conference ends. Expulsion of the delegates from the city.
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