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Warfare in Antiquity Conference 2019

19 October 2019
by Grainger, Andy
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A one day Conference, Warfare in Antiquity: Perceptions, Realties and Reception in the 21st Century is to be held at King's College London, Strand Campus on Saturday 23 November 2019, 09:00 to 17:30.

Booking details (the event is free) are at the link below:

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


 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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