Identity, Representation And The Principate AD14-68

 

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Wednesday 18th June

10 -1 Registration - School of Classics, Swallowgate, Butts Wynd

2 Conference opens - School of Art History, No. 9 The Scores, Seminar Room 6

2 Introduction

Alisdair Gibson, University of St Andrews

2.10 Welcome Greg Woolf, Head of School, University of St Andrews

A. Succession 1

Chair, Greg Woolf (St Andrews)

2.20 Robin Seager, University of Liverpool, Perceptions of the domus Augusta, AD 4-24 .

3 Matthew Roller, John Hopkins University, The Problem with Being Tiberius .

tea~coffee

B. Self-Representation 1

Chair, Jon Coulston (St Andrews)

4.10 Rolf Schneider, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Changing faces: visual ideologies in imperial and non-imperial portraits from Augustus to Nero

4.50 Richard Grossmann, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Images of Augustus under the Julio-Claudians (and Beyond)

6 Reception:The Classics Library, School of Classics

7.30 Informal meal in Zizzi’s restaurant, South Street

Thursday 19th June

C. Political identities 1

Chair, Harry Hine (St Andrews)

9.30 Sarah T. Cohen, Dalhousie University, An Impossible Exile: Tiberius on Capri

10.10 John Drinkwater , University of Nottingham, Nero Caesar and the Half-Baked Principate.

tea~coffee

B. Self- Representation 2

Chair, Greg Woolf (St Andrews)

11.30 Andrew Burnet, Deputy Director, British Museum, Provincial coins and a developing imperial identity.

12.10 Steven L. Tuck, Miami University: Caligula, Nero and the Re-definition of Virtus in Imperial Rome.

Lunch Rm S11 School of Classics

A. Succession 2

Chair, Robin Seager (Liverpool)

2.00 Eleanor Cowan, University of Leicester, Succession. The presentation of Tiberius’ relationship with Augustan precedent in contemporary (Tiberian) sources.

2.40 Alisdair Gibson, University of St Andrews, All things to all men: Claudius, politics and perception in AD41.

tea~coffee

C. Political Identities 2

Chair, Roger Rees (St Andrews)

3.10 Emma Buckley, University of St Andrews, Nero insitiuus: imperial identity and self-representation in the pseudo-Senecan “Octavia”.

4.20 Ben W. Hicks, Rutgers,“Unfortunate Rather than Wicked”: Failure to Communicate in the De Legatione ad Gaium

7.30 Conference Meal: The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street

Friday 20th June

C. Political identities 3

Chair, Alisdair Gibson (St Andrews)

9.30 Jula Wildberger, The American University of Paris, The emperor as a moral person in the context of friendship: the example of Nero

10.10 Roger Rees, University of St Andrews: Nero and Tacitus’ portrayal of Piso.

tea~coffee

D. Imperial elements

Chair, Christopher Smith (St Andrews)

11.30 Jeremy Paterson, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne: ‘A bun for the elephant’ (Suetonius DA 53.2): imperial audiences and the construction of power in the Early Roman Empire.

12.10 Timothy A. Joseph, College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts: The cautionary exempla of the Julio-Claudians in Tacitus’ Histories.

1.00 Lunch Rm S11 School of Classics

Fin

  

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