Warfare in Antiquity Conference: Perceptions, Realities, and Reception in the 21st Century - 23/11/2
Recognizing the tremendous work being done on warfare in antiquity and considering the lack of platforms afforded to academics and enthusiasts to discuss their respective research and interests this academic year, we are proud to announce the Warfare in Antiquity Conference.
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 23/11/2019
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: King's College London (London, England)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Theodore Szadzinski.
INFO: web - WACon2019@gmail.com
INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: Aquí/here/qui
PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
Registration Opens 9.00am
Reception and Opening Remarks 9.30am
Session 1: 10.00 – 11.15am
Practicalities and Realities of War (Council Room)
Owen Rees (Manchester Metropolitan University) Picking over the Bones: the practicalities of processing the bodies of the Athenian war dead
Andrew M. Hill (Trinity College Dublin) Logistics, Environment and Attrition: a re-examination of Carthage’s Mercenary War (241-237 B.C.) in context
Tyler Nye (Trinity College Dublin) Rome’s First Port of War? The rise of Portus Iulius and its ‘revival’ in modern warfare
Commander Case Studies (Small Committee Room)
Jaakkojuhani Peltonen (Kings College London / Tampere University) Studying Military Masculinity: Alexander the Great as exemplum of martial courage and harmful recklessness
Juan P. Prieto (Bordeaux University, Institut Ausonius) Titus Flamininus and Eastern Roman Republican Warfare: re-assessing misconceptions and stereotypes through Military History
Davide Morelli (La Sapienza – University of Rome) Strategemata and Mid-Republican Battles: the case of L. Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus
Tea Break 11.15 – 11.25am
Session 2: 11.30am – 1.00pm
The Policies and Methods of War (Council Room)
Michael Stawpert (King’s College London) Policy by Other Means: The political consequences of warfare in the Late Roman Empire
Christos Aristopoulos (University of Cyprus) Vegetius and the Late Roman Empire
Thomas O. Rover (University of Texas at Austin) Treaties as Short-Term Pauses in the Corinthian War
Josh Webb (University of Leicester) The Arkadian Stratagems: dismantling the ‘amateur-professional’ dichotomy in the study of ancient Greek warfare
Soldiers and the Social Dynamic (Small Committee Room)
Marian Helm (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster) Creating “Natural Fighters”: age and social expectations in the Roman Republican army
Ben Angell (University of Oxford) Fragmented Communities: social implications of the Roman army’s detachment system
Davide Morassi (Brasenose College, University of Oxford) When Motivation Was Not Enough: positive and negative reinforcement in Classical Greek armies
Theodore Szadzinski (King’s College London) Tactics and Society: the Roman multiple line replacement system and the ethoi that shaped it
Lunch Break 1.00 – 2.00pm
Keynote Address 2.05 – 3.00pm (Council Room)
Prof. Hans van Wees (University College London) What was the point of the Archidamian War? Spartan and Athenian aims and strategies reconsidered
Session 3: 3.05 – 4.35pm
Reflections of War in Literature (Council Room)
Constantine Christoforou (University of Roehampton) Combat Trauma in Sophocles’ Ajax: a script-based approach
Claire Frampton (Oxford University Gardens, Libraries and Museums) Reflections of Ancient Warfare in Modern Theatre
Yuriy Loboda (King’s College London / National University of Defence, Kiev, Ukraine) The Concept of ‘Fog of War’ in Homer’s Poems
Hannah Sorscher (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Astyanax’s Fate and Second-Stage Warfare in the Iliad
Re-Analysing Warfare (Small Committee Room)
William Shepherd (Osprey Publishing) The Persian War in Herodotus and other Ancient Voices
Alex Howard (Exeter University) The Stagnation and Decline of ‘Macedonian’ Battlefield Tactics in the Hellenistic Era
Alastair Lumsden (University of St. Andrews) Cisalpine Gallic Warfare: perceptions and realities
Simona Puca (Federico II University) The Vandalic War: a paradigmatic example of debate on the war in antiquity
Tea Break 4.40 – 4.50pm
Session 4: 4.55 – 6.20pm
Understanding Greek and Roman Military Traditions (Council Room)
Giorgia Proietti (University of Trento) The Athenian Demosion Sema: ancient realities and modern perceptions
Matteo Zaccarini (University of Edinburgh) The ‘Greatest and Fairest’ Deed: the duel in Plutarch’s literary construction of the hero
Fernando Echeverria (University of Madrid) Understanding the ‘Hoplite Revolution’: reconstructing Archaic Greece with the hoplite phalanx in mind
Hannah-Marie Chidwick (University of Bristol) ‘Politics Incarnate’ in Roman warfare
Conclusion and Closing Remarks 6.25 – 6.30pm (Council Room)