ROME AND THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD

Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 July 2000

To coincide with Fergus Millar's 65th birthday, the British Academy held a two-day conference on Saturday and Sunday, 8 and 9 July 2000


 PROGRAMME

 

ROME

 

SATURDAY 8 JULY
ZOOLOGY LECTURE THEATRE, SOUTH PARKS ROAD, OXFORD

9.00 am

Registration

 

Session I: Chair: Professor Hannah Cotton

10.00 am 

Pursuing Roman Democracy: Professor John North (University College London)

11.00 am 

Coffee

11.30 am

Imperial Administration and Prosopography
Professor Werner Eck (University of Köln)

12.30 pm 

Lunch [not provided - participants should make their own arrangements] 

 

Session II: Chair: Dr Alan Bowman

2.30 pm

'In arto et inglorius labor': Tacitus'  'anti-history'
Dr Katherine Clarke (St. Hilda's College, Oxford)

3.30 pm

Tea

4.00 pm 

The Domus Flavia and Domitian's Conception of the Principate
Professor Paul Zanker (DAI, Rome): 

6.00 pm

Drinks at Rhodes House

 

 

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD

 

SUNDAY 9 JULY
THE BRITISH ACADEMY 10 CARLTON HOUSE TERRACE, LONDON, SW1A 5AH

10.30 am 

Coffee and registration

 

Session III: Chair: Dr Simon Price

11.00 am 

Sennacherib's siege of Jerusalem in Assyrian and Jewish perspective
Professor Amélie Kuhrt (University College London)

12.15 pm 

The Pontic Nation
Professor Stephen Mitchell (University of Wales, Swansea)

1.15 pm

Buffet lunch (admission by pre-booked ticket only)

 

Session IV: Chair: Professor Martin Goodman

2.30 pm 

Rome and the Jews: Autonomy and Freedom
Professor Daniel Schwartz (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)

3.30 pm

Tea

4.00 pm 

Lactantius and Augustine
Professor Peter Garnsey (Jesus College, Cambridge)

5 - 6.30 pm

Drinks