Valerius Maximus: 25 Years after Bloomer - 23-24-25/10/2017, Cape Town (South Africa)
We are pleased to announce Valerius Maximus: 25 Years after Bloomer, a conference on Valerius Maximus, to be held at the University of Cape Town (South Africa), from Monday the 23rd of October to Wednesday the 25th of October 2017. The conference will be convened by Dr Jeffrey Murray and Professor David Wardle in the School of Languages and Literatures.
A quarter of a century after W. Martin Bloomer’s land-mark monograph (Valerius Maximus and the Rhetoric of the New Nobility), if Valerius is cited at all, he is usually in the footnotes of works on Roman history. Rarely do scholars study the Facta et dicta memorabilia for its own sake, or the way in which Valerius has shaped and edited material from previous sources into his chosen genre of exemplary literature. Furthermore, the influence of the intellectual climate of Tiberian Rome on Valerius’ work has merited slight comment by scholars.
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 23-24-25/10/2017
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: School of Languages and Literatures, University of Cape Town, Cape Town (South Africa)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Dr Jeffrey Murray ; Professor David Wardle
INFO: jeffreymurray@antiqua.co.za ; David.Wardle@uct.ac.za
INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE:
Ponentes/speakers/altoparlanti: ZAR 300
Asistentes / attendants/ partecipanti: ZAR 400
PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
Monday, 23 October 2017
9:30 – 9:45 Welcome & Opening Remarks
9:45 – 10:30 Alain Gowing (University of Washington) Aetas Felix: Reading Tacitus’ Tiberian books through Valerius Maximus
10:30 – 11:15 John Atkinson (University of Cape Town) Valerius Maximus on Coriolanus
11:15 – 11:45 Tea & Coffee
11:45 – 12:30 Emma Brobeck (University of Washington) Efficacior Pictura: Morality and the Arts in Valerius Maximus
12:30 – 13:15 Jeffrey Murray (University of Cape Town) Exemplary Biography: Reading Valerius Maximus Writing the Life of Cicero
13:15 – 14:15 Lunch
14:15 – 15:00 David Wardle (University of Cape Town) “Not putting Roman History in order” – Regal, Republican, and Imperial Boundaries?
15:00 – 15:45 Simon Lentzsch (University of Cologne) Talking about Spoils in the Facta et dicta memorabilia
Tuesday, 24 October 2017
9:30 – 10:30 Rebecca Langlands (University of Exeter)
Valerius the Philosopher? The Facta et dicta memorabilia’s engagement with Cicero’s philosophical works
10:30 – 11:15 Roman Roth (University of Cape Town) Boundary Issues: Valerius Maximus on Rome’s Italian Allies
11:15 – 11:45 Tea & Coffee
11:45 – 12:30 George Baroud (New York University) The Politics of Amicitia in Valerius Maximus
12:30 – 13:15 Heiko Westphal (The University of Western Australia)
The populus Romanus in Valerius Maximus’ Facta et dicta memorabilia
13:15 – 14:15 Lunch
14:15 – 15:00 Diederik Burgersdijk (Radboud University, Nijmegen) Valerius Maximus’ Reception in Late Antiquity
15:00 – 16:00 Sarah Lawrence (University of New England) And Now for Something Completely Different? 2.6 and the Role of the External Material
19:00 Conference Dinner
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