9.00am Registration
9.30am Reception and Opening Remarks
List of speakers:
- Owen Rees (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Picking over the Bones: the practicalities of processing the bodies of the Athenian war dead
- Andrew Martin (Trinity College Dublin)
Logistics, Environment and Attrition: a re-examination of Carthage’s Mercenary War (241-237 B.C.) in context
- Giorgia Proietti (University of Trento)
The Athenian Demosion Sema: ancient realities and modern perceptions
- Jaakkojuhani Peltonen (Kings College London / Tampere University)
Studying Military Masculinity: Alexander the Great as exemplum of martial courage and harmful recklessness
- Juan P. Prieto (Bordeaux University, Institut Ausonius)
Titus Quinctius Flaminius and Eastern Roman Republican Warfare: re-assessing misconceptions and stereotypes through military history
- Davide Morelli (La Sapienza – University of Rome)
Strategemata and Mid-Republican Battles: the case of L. Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus
- Michael Stawpert (King’s College London)
Policy by Other Means: The political consequences of warfare in the late Roman empire
- Hannah-Marie Chidwick (University of Bristol)
‘Politics Incarnate’ in Roman warfare
- Christos Aristopoulos (University of Cyprus)
Vegetius and the Late Roman Empire
- Thomas O. Rover (University of Texas at Austin)
Treaties as Short-Term Pauses in the Corinthian War
- Constantine Christoforou (University of Roehampton)
Combat Trauma in Sophocles’ Ajax: a script-based approach
- Claire Frampton (Oxford University Gardens, Libraries and Museums)
Reflections of Ancient Warfare in Modern Theatre
- Yuriy Loboda (King’s College London / National University of Defence, Kiev, Ukraine)
The Concept of ‘Fog of War’ in Homer’s Poems
- Hannah Sorscher (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Astyanax’s Fate and Second-Stage Warfare in the Iliad
- Marian Helm (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
Creating “Natural Fighters”: age and social expectations in the Roman republican army
- Ben Angell (University of Oxford)
Fragmented Communities: social implications of the Roman army’s detachment system
- Davide Morassi (Brasenose College, University of Oxford)
When Motivation Was Not Enough: positive and negative reinforcement in Classical Greek armies
- Fernando Echeverria (University of Madrid)
Understanding the ‘Hoplite Revolution’: reconstructing Archaic Greece with the hoplite phalanx in mind
- Josh Webb (University of Leicester)
The Arkadian Stratagems: dismantling the ‘amateur-professional’ dichotomy in
the study of ancient Greek warfare
- Matteo Zaccarini (University of Edinburgh)
The ‘Greatest and Fairest’ Deed: the duel in Plutarch’s literary construction of the hero
- Alex Howard (Exeter University)
The Stagnation and Decline of ‘Macedonian’ Battlefield Tactics in the Hellenistic Era
- Alastair Lumsden (University of St. Andrews)
Cisalpine Gallic Warfare: perceptions and realities
- Tyler Nye (Trinity College Dublin)
Rome’s First Port of War? The rise of Portus Iulius and its ‘revival’ in modern warfare
- Emilia Cecchi di Forlimpopoli (Federico II University)
The Vandalic War: a paradigmatic example of debate on the war in antiquity
- Ioannis Mitsios (Hellenic Ministry of Culture)
The involvement of Athenian Heroines in War Conflicts and the Impact of Their Self-Sacrifice on the Perception of Their Gender
Keynote Address
- Prof. Hans van Wees (University College London)
Thucydides and the ‘Real History’ of the Peloponnesian War
Conclusion and Closing Remarks 5.00 – 5.30pm
