CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
IN THE
ANCIENT WORLD
Ertegun House, Oxford
19 May 2017, 9am
Registration: £10 (£5 concessions)
Dual bust of Herodotus and Thucydides,
Museo Nazionale Archeologico, Naples, Italy.
(Photo by Leemage/UIG via Getty Images)
Contemporary History in the Ancient world
With a keynote address by John Marincola:
“The Anxieties of the Contemporary Historian”
Murray Dahm
“You can’t make this stuff up! Lucian on the
contemporary historians of Lucius Verus’
Parthian War.”
Marius Gerhardt
Velleius Paterculus as a historian of his own
time
Eelco Glas
“But What Was Before My Lifetime I Shall
Cover Briefly”: Herod the Great and Narrative
Development in Jewish War
Eve MacDonald
Dio, Herodian and the Rise of the Sasanians
Francesco Mari
Contemporary History between Modern
Historicism and Ancient Historiography: The
Case of Xenophon
Gunther Martin
Dexippus of Athens on his peers (and perhaps
himself)
Suzanne Abrams Rebillard
Gregory of Nazianzus’s Fictional Truth
Aaron Turner
Disconnecting Truth and Experience:
Thucydides’ Transcendentalist Approach To
Writing Contemporary History
Andrew Worley
I Came, I Saw, I Wrote It Down: reconsidering
the impact of Cassius Dio’s claims as eyewitness to history
Organiser: Ursula Westwood
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