Programme | Beyond Alexandria


Wednesday September 13 (Day 1)

 

Arrival of guests

17:00 | Reception at De Uurwerker


Thursday September 14 (Day 2)

 

9:00 - 9:15 | Annette Harder and Jacqueline Klooster

Welcome and opening

 

Panel 1: Courts and Kings

 

9:15 - 10:00 | Marijn Visscher (Bergen)

The menace from the east: Antigonus Epimanes and the madness of Nebuchadnezzar

 

10:00 - 10:45 | James Oakley (Oxford)

The (Re)Interpretation of the King: Greek and Egyptian Receptions and Subversions of Kingship Ideology outside Alexandria

Respondent: Vittoria Vairo (Naples)

 

10:45 – 11:00

Coffee break

 

11:00 – 11:45 | Thomas Nelson (Oxford)

Heracles, Euphorion and Seleucid Ideology in the Aetion of Apamea-on-the-Orontes (Ps.-Oppian, Cynegetica 2.100-158)

Respondent: Estella Kessler (Oxford)

 

11:45 - 12:30 | Rotem Avneri Meir (Harvard / Helsinki)

Beyond the Jerusalem Temple: Poets and Poetry in the Hasmonean Court

 

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch Break at Bruinszaal, Academiegebouw



Panel 2:  Inscriptions and book culture

(chaired by Nita Krevans)

 

14:00 - 14:45 | Davide Massimo (Nottingham)

Seleucid Singing Stones: the Hellenistic verse inscriptions from Seleucia-on-the-Eulaios (Susa).

Respondent: Flavia Licciardello (Bologna)

 

14:45 – 15:30 | Daniel Anderson (Coventry)

Book Cultures beyond Alexandria

Respondent: Hans Wietzke (Amherst)

 

15:30 – 15:45

Coffee Break

 

15:45 – 16:30 | Brett Evans (Georgetown)

Hesiod and Euripides in Armenia: literary taste and cultural politics in the verse inscriptions of Armavir (SGO 12/05/01-03)

Respondent: Viola Palmieri (Tübingen)

 

16:30 – 17:15 | Hanna Golab (New York University)

Women’s Poetry in the Service of the Aitolian League

Respondent: Antiopi Argyriou (Athens)

 

19:00

Conference Dinner at Land van Kokanje


Friday September 15 (Day 3)

 

Panel 3: Epigram beyond Alexandria

(chaired by Floris Overduin)

 

9:00 - 9:45 | Chiara Pesaresi (Venice)

Reassessing Anyte’s votive epigrams: a case of authentic Alexandrianism

Respondent: Camilla Basile (Virginia)

 

9:45 - 10:30 | Matthew Chaldekas (Tübingen)

Effacing Alexandria? Theodoridas of Syracuse’s Rewritings of Callimachus

Respondent: Maria Kovalchuk (Penn)

 

10:30 -10:45

Coffee break

 

10:45 – 11:30 | Marcie Gwen Persyn (Pittsburgh)

Lucilius: Roman Satirist, Hellenistic Scholar

Respondent: Emma Celestini (Pisa)

 

11:30- 12:15 | Veronica Piccirillo and Elly Polignano (Cagliari/Newcastle)

Dioscorides and Marcus Argentarius: examples of dialogue between Alexandrian and non-Alexandrian poetry

Respondent: Marije Derksen (Nijmegen)

 

12:15 – 13:00

Lunch Break at Bruinszaal, Academiegebouw



Panel 4: Nothing to do with Alexandria?

 

13:00 - 13:45 | Max Leventhal (Cambridge) 

The ps.-Orphic Testament as Hellenistic Hymn

Respondent: Raffaele Bernini (Pisa)

 

13:45 - 14:30 | Michele Solitario (Tübingen)

Paradoxography from Alexandria to Pergamon

Respondent: Alessandro Giardini (Pisa)

 

14:30 - 15:15 | Jason Nethercut (South Florida)

Were the Earliest Roman Poets Hellenistic?

Respondent: Irma Scaletti (Trento/Augsburg)

 

Extra activity:

From East to West in Late Antiquity

Marking the retirement of Jan Willem Drijvers

Location: Doopsgezinde Kerk, Oude Boteringestraat 33, 9712 GD Groningen

 

10:30

Opening

 

10:40-11:20 | Roger Rees

The Love Songs of the Panegyrici Latini

 

11:20-12:00 | Catherine Ware

Friendship and Free Speech: The voice of Consuls in the Panegyrici Latini

 

12:00 -13:00

Lunch

 

13:00-13:40 | Gavin Kelly

Philological and Historical Notes on Ammianus Marcellinus

 

13:40-14:20 | Peter van Nuffelen

Creating the Acts of Nicaea: the Ecclesiastical History of the Anonymous of Cyzicus

 

14:20-15:00 | Danielle Slootjes

Imperial Residences and Travelling Emperors. Or: Who Is Left Behind?

 

15:00-15:30

Discussion and presentation of volume

 

15:30-16:00

Break

 

16:00-17:00

Farewell Lecture by Jan Willem Drijvers: Julian and the Third Temple

 

17:00- 19:00

Reception