Warfare in Antiquity Conference 2019

Booking details

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