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Prominent specialists discuss about the eternal issue of Roman origins and
beginnings in documentary evidence between history and legend.
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omnium annalium monumenta
HISTORICAL EVIDENCE and HISTORICAL WRITING
in Republican Rome
Conference at the INSTITUTUM ROMANUM FINLANDIAE and THE BRITISH SCHOOL AT
ROME,
31 October - 1 November 2013
PROGRAMME
Thursday, 31 October
IRF (Passeggiata del Gianicolo 10)
9.30 TUOMAS HEIKKILÄ (IRF)
Welcome
9.35 CHRISTOPHER J. SMITH and KAJ SANDBERG
Opening of the Conference
9.45 JOHN RICH (University of Nottingham)
Annales and Annales Maximi: The Origins of the Roman Annalistic Tradition
10.30 HANS BECK (McGill University, Montreal)
The Discovery of Numa's Writings: Roman Sacral Law and the Early Historians
11.15 Coffee
11.30 CHRISTOPHER SIMON (Yale University)
An Historian's Friends: Republican Historiography in the Light of Varro and
Festus
12.15 DUNCAN MACRAE (University of Cincinnati)
Diligentissumus investigator antiquitatis? Rethinking 'Antiquarianism' and
Historical Evidence in Republican Rome
13.00 Lunch
14.30 FRANCISCO PINA POLO (Universidad de Zaragoza)
How Much History Did the Romans Know? Historical References in Cicero's
Speeches to the People
15.15 ANDREW RIGGSBY (University of Texas at Austin / Princeton University)
Cicero's Use of Documentary Evidence
16.00 HENRIETTE VAN DER BLOM (University of Glasgow / Wolfson College,
Oxford)
Ciceronian Constructions of the Oratorical Past
20.00 Dinner at Hostaria Antica Roma (Colombario dei liberti di Augusto, Via
Appia Antica 87)
Friday, 1 November
BSR (Via Antonio Gramsci 61)
9.15 MASSIMILIANO DI FAZIO (Universitā degli Studi, Pavia)
Figures of Memory: Mezentius, Aulus Vibenna, Valerius Publicola between
History and Legend
10.00 KAJ SANDBERG (Åbo Akademi University, Turku)
Traces of the Past in Augustan Rome? Considerations about Social Memory,
Popular Imagination and the Topography of Ancient Tales in Livy's Ab Urbe
Condita
10.45 Coffee
11.15 GABRIELE CIFANI (Universitā degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata)
Santuari arcaici e memoria collettiva nella Roma tardo-repubblicana
12.00 DENNIS PAUSCH (Universität Regensburg)
Livy's 'Battle in the Forum' between Roman Monuments and Greek Literature
12.45 Lunch
14.00 KARL-JOACHIM HÖLKESKAMP (Universität zu Köln)
Memoria by Multiplication. The Cornelii Scipiones in Monumental Memory
14.45 PENELOPE DAVIES (University of Texas at Austin)
Controlling Civic Memory in Late Republican Rome
15.30 SETH BERNARD (Swarthmore College)
Aedificare, res damnosissima: Building and the Construction of Historical
Narrative in Livy, Books V-VI
20.00 Dinner at Ambasciata d'Abruzzo (Via Pietro Tacchini 26
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