Alternative Greek Histories: Regional Perspectives - 11-12/09/2015, Leicester (England)
This round table will adopt a playful, ‘what if...’ approach to the writing of ancient Greek history, exploring alternative narratives drawing from different regional perspectives. What would the shape of Greek history look like if we assumed it to be focused on Sicily or Crete rather than mainland Greece? Would a Hellenika written by Lucian have been dramatically different to one written by Favorinus? And what form might Greek history take if it was written, not by Greeks, but by their neighbours?
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 11-12/09/2015
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: University of Leicester (Leicester, England)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Naoise Mac Sweeney
INFO: web - nm241@le.ac.uk
INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE:
Places are extremely limited, please contact Naoise Mac Sweeney (nm241@le.ac.uk) for details.
PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
Friday 11th September
9:30 – Registration and coffee
10:00 – Robin Osborne, Cambridge (Athens and Attica): Material culture and regional politics: the case of archaic Attica
10:45 – Sam Gartland, Oxford (Boeotia): Up for grabs: A Boiotian periodisation through fear and domination, 1500BC-287BC
11:30 – Coffee
11:45 – Graham Shipley, Leicester (the Peloponnese): “We, too, have televisions”: a Peloponnesian view of Greece under Macedonian domination
12:30 – Emma Aston, Reading (Thessaly): Pausanias’ lost eleventh book
13:15 – Lunch
14:30 – Brice Ericksen, Santa Barbara (Crete): Elite competition and state formation on Crete
15:15 – Christy Constantakopoulou, Birkbeck (the Aegean islands): One or many seas? Regionalism and the Aegean islands between the 8th and the 1st century
16:00 – Coffee
16:15 – Joe Skinner, Newcastle (Greek Asia Minor): The Eastern Greeks: Ionians, Dorians and others in Asia Minor
17:00 – Naoíse Mac Sweeney, Leicester (non-Greek Asia Minor): Carians on Greeks
17:45 – Drinks reception
19:30 – Dinner
Saturday 12th September
9:30 – Registration and coffee
10:00 – Michael Scott, Warwick (Cyrene): A view from North Africa: stuck between blue and sandy seas
10:45 – Thom Russell, Oxford (Black Sea): Dionysius of Byzantium on the Bosphorus Strait
11:30 – Coffee
12:00 – Lin Foxhall, Liverpool (Magna Graecia): Title tbc
12:45 – Lunch
13:45 – Alex Mullen, Oxford (western Mediterranean): A Gallo-Greek history
14:30 – Johannes Haubold, Durham (Near East): Berossus’ history of Greece: a thought experiment
15:15 – Final discussion
16:00 – End