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