A Community in Transition: Roman History, 200-134 BC - 17-18/01/2019, Roma (Italy)
The period between the Hannibalic War and the Gracchi is highly significant in the history of the Roman Republic, but tends to receive little attention, largely because of the very fragmentary state of the sources. During the first three quarters of the second century BC, Rome underwent important changes in almost every domain: new problems, new rules, and new actors came to the fore. This conference will seek to provide a collective account of this period by taking a thematic approach and considering a number of key issues. An international group of speakers will explore the domains in which significant change appears to have taken place, will discuss areas of continuity, and will debate how a new coherent picture may be constructed.
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 17-18/01/2019
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: The British School at Rome (Roma, Italy)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Mattia Balbo (University of Turin); Federico Santangelo (Newcastle University) ; Silvia Giorcelli (University of Turin)
INFO: balbomattia@gmail.com - federico.santangelo@newcastle.ac.uk - silvia.giorcelli@unito.it
INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: gratis / free / gratuito
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The period between the Hannibalic War and the Gracchi is highly significant in the history of the Roman Republic, but tends to receive little attention, largely because of the very fragmentary state of the sources. During the first three quarters of the second century BC, Rome underwent important changes in almost every domain: new problems, new rules, and new actors came to the fore. This conference will seek to provide a collective account of this period by taking a thematic approach and considering a number of key issues. An international group of speakers will explore the domains in which significant change appears to have taken place, will discuss areas of continuity, and will debate how a new coherent picture may be constructed. THURSDAY, 17 JANUARY 10.00 – 11.00 Harriet Flower (Princeton, USA) Periodisation and new problems [Opening Keynote Lecture] Coffee break 11.20 – 12.00 Annarosa Gallo (Bari, IT) Interactions between Tribunes and Senate 12.00 – 12.40 Michele Bellomo (Milan, IT) The administration of the Imperium Romanum in the II century BC Lunch 14.00 – 14.40 Cyrielle Landrea (Bretagne Sud, FR) Gentes maiores and aristocratic competition (200-134 BC) 14.40 – 15.20 Thibaud Lanfranchi (Toulouse II, FR) Social and political evolutions at the beginning of the 2nd c. BC: the case of some Roman laws Coffee break 15.40 – 16.20 Catherine Steel (Glasgow, UK) The arrival of eloquence? The changing parameters of public speech in the second century 16.20 – 17.00 Francesca De Caprariis (Rome, IT) Public buildings and urban space: a view from the Tiberfront FRIDAY, 18 JANUARY 10.00 – 10.40 Mattia Balbo (Turin, IT) Agrarian issues: competition for land in Italy before the Gracchi 10.40 – 11.20 James Tan (Sydney, AUS) Tribuni aerarii from Zama to the Gracchi Coffee break 11.40 – 12.20 Michael J. Taylor (SUNY Albany, USA) The Roman citizen cavalry 12.20 – 13.00 Marleen Termeer (Leiden, NL) Changes in coinage production and use Lunch 14.00 – 14.40 Federico Santangelo (Newcastle, UK) Beyond conservatism: charting Roman religion between Hannibal and Scipio Nasica 14.40 – 15.20 Ulrich Gotter (Konstanz, DE) An aristocracy of peasants? Sumptuary laws and the invention of Romanness in the second century BCE Coffee break 15.45 – 16.45 Round table