Looking Back, Looking Forward: Ancient Perspectives on the
Past and the Future
King’s College London Postgraduate Classics Conference
2015
2 June
TIME
9.00-9.30
9.30-11.00
11.00-11.30
11.30-12.30
12.30-13.30
13.30-15.00
15.00-15.30
15.30-16.30
16.30-17.00
17.00-18.00
SESSION A
SESSION B
Registration & Welcome
Constructing Local Identities through
The Afterlife of the Dead
Time
Leonidas Papadopoulos (KCL): ‘The
Paul Grigsby (Warwick): ‘Boiotian
Necromancy of King Darius in
Identity and the Imagined Past’
Aeschylus’ Persians’
Elke Close (Edinburgh): ‘Polybius and
Emilia Savva (NKUA): ‘Time Fluctuation in
his Ideas of Decline in Connection to the
the Roman Belief about Manes’
Achaean League’
Kaja Stemberger (KCL): ‘Protecting the
Eloisa Paganoni (Padua): ‘History of
Future from the Past’
a Polis, History of a Kingdom: The
Account of Bithynia in Memnon’s Peri
Herakleias’
Tea & Coffee Break
(Re)Interpreting Monuments
Framing Roman Histories
Robert Sing (Cambridge): ‘The Periclean Annika Domainko (Heidelberg): ‘Bridging
Building Programme in Fourth-Century
the Gap between the Past and the Future?:
Political Thought’
Closure and Open-Endedness in Livy and
Sarah Platt (Oxford): ‘Foundation and
Velleius Paterculus’
Re-Foundation: Theseus and Hadrian in
Nina Montgomery (Oxford): ‘Framing
the Ilissos Area of Athens’
Cicero’s Exile through the Letters of Ad
Atticum 3’
Lunch
Fragments of History and Literature
Ilaria Andolfi (La Sapienza, Rome): ‘Looking Back at the Origins of Greek History: The
Chauvenistic Acusilaus of Argos’
Alessandro Fabi (Pisa): ‘Accius’ Armorum Iudicium: Imitation and Originality’
Maria D. Petropoulou (Birmingham): ‘Viewing the Notions of (Self)awareness,
(Self)realisation and (Self)destruction from Different Time Perspectives: The Case of the
Aeschylean Fragmentary Play Myrmidons’
Tea & Coffee Break
The Afterlife of Horatian Time
Ewelina Kolendowicz (Łódź): ‘Non omnis moriar: The Horatian Theory of Relativity of
Time for Poets and Its Impact on Polish Literature’
Jill Woodberry (KCL): ‘The carpe diem Motif of the Horatian Ode as an Expression of
the Golden Mean, and its Interpretation by English Cavalier Poets 1630-1660’
Break
Keynote Address
Dr. Emily Pillinger (KCL): ‘Back to the Future: History and Literary History in Lucan’s
Pythian Oracle’
Reception
3 June
TIME
9.30-10.00
10.00-11.30
11.30-12.00
12.00-13.00
13.00-14.00
14.00-15.30
15.30-16.00
16.00-17.00
17.00-17.30
17.30-18.30
SESSION A
SESSION B
Registration
Time and Memory in Greek Tragedy
The Value of the Past
Saskia Willigers (Amsterdam): ‘The Past Sangduk Lee (KCL): ‘Marathon: The
and the Future in Greek Tragic Choral
Memory of Victory’
Odes’
Mary Fragkaki (NKUA): ‘Delphic Oracles:
Sophie Raudnitz (Open University): ‘
Heroic Past, Hegemonic Future’
“Where Past and Future are Gathered”:
Matteo Barbato (Edinburgh): ‘Using the Past
Time Suspended and the Workings of
to Shape the Future: Following the Example
Memory in Euripides’ Trojan Women’
of the Ancestors in Athenian Public Debate’
Claudia Baldassi (Edinburgh): ‘Progress
and Tradition in Euripides’ Helen’
Tea & Coffee Break
The Present Shaping the Past
Steven Cosnett (KCL): ‘Elements of Late
Republican Rhetoric in Livy’s Speeches’
Jonathan Davies (Oxford): ‘Covenant
and Pax Deorum: Doublespeak and the
Future of Rome in Josephus’ Jewish War’
(De)Idealising Primitive Customs
Sebastiano Bertolini (Edinburgh): ‘Refusing
Progress: Aristophanes’ Countryside as
Celebration of the Past’
Giulia Corsino (Scuola Normale Superiore):
‘From mythos to logos: Progress of Erotic
Customs in Longus’ Poimenika’
Lunch
Theories of Time
Vasileia Kouliouri (Bristol): ‘Future Present and the Tragedy of telos in
Aeschylus’ Agamemnon’
Andrew G. van Ross (Duisburg-Essen): ‘Opening Horizons: Roman Aristocrats Gambling
for the Future’
Monika Stobiecka (Warsaw): ‘Time-Accumulating Objects: Heideggerian Perspective on
Archaeological Artifacts’
Tea & Coffee Break
Myth and History
Hamutal Minkowich (UCL): ‘Myth, Temporality and History’
Rebecca Van Hove (KCL): ‘The Categorisation of the Past: ‘Mythical and ‘Historical’
Oracles in Fourth-Century Oratory’
Break
Keynote Address
Prof. Chris Pelling (Oxford): ‘Predictability in Hindsight:Hippocratics, Herodotus,
Thucydides’
Reception
Conference Organising Committee:
Steven Cosnett
Giacomo Fedeli
Valeria Valotto
Rebecca Van Hove