This document announces an international symposium titled "The Struggle for Identity: Greeks and Their Past in the First Century BCE" to be held from October 12-14, 2006 in Bonn, Germany. The symposium will explore how Greeks in the first century BCE viewed their own identity and relationship to their past, and how it was impacted by Rome's growing power. Over the three days, scholars will present papers on topics like Greek perceptions of Roman literature, the transition from Greek to Latin as the dominant language, and how Greek identity was depicted by historians. The event is organized by professors from the University of Bonn and supported by several academic organizations, with keynote lectures, participant presentations, and optional meals
This document announces an international symposium titled "The Struggle for Identity: Greeks and Their Past in the First Century BCE" to be held from October 12-14, 2006 in Bonn, Germany. The symposium will explore how Greeks in the first century BCE viewed their own identity and relationship to their past, and how it was impacted by Rome's growing power. Over the three days, scholars will present papers on topics like Greek perceptions of Roman literature, the transition from Greek to Latin as the dominant language, and how Greek identity was depicted by historians. The event is organized by professors from the University of Bonn and supported by several academic organizations, with keynote lectures, participant presentations, and optional meals
This document announces an international symposium titled "The Struggle for Identity: Greeks and Their Past in the First Century BCE" to be held from October 12-14, 2006 in Bonn, Germany. The symposium will explore how Greeks in the first century BCE viewed their own identity and relationship to their past, and how it was impacted by Rome's growing power. Over the three days, scholars will present papers on topics like Greek perceptions of Roman literature, the transition from Greek to Latin as the dominant language, and how Greek identity was depicted by historians. The event is organized by professors from the University of Bonn and supported by several academic organizations, with keynote lectures, participant presentations, and optional meals
Organized by Prof. Dr. Thomas A. Schmitz und Nicolas Wiater, M.A.
Venue: Seminarraum des Uniclubs Bonn Konviktstrae 9 53113 Bonn
Further Information and Contact: http://www.uni-bonn.de/www/Philologie/Aktuelles/Identity.html nicolas.wiater@uni-bonn.de
Kindly supported by the DFG and the Uniclub Bonn, in cooperation with the CCT.
Programme Seminarraum at the Uniclub Bonn, Konviktstr. 9
Thursday, 12.10.2006
18:00: Opening Statement and Welcome (Thomas A. Schmitz)
18:15: Opening Lecture: Prof. Dr. Albrecht Dihle, Cologne: The Beginnings of Imperial Classicism
Conference Dinner
Friday, 13.10.2006
09:00: Meeting at the Seminarraum
09:15-10:00: Thomas Hidber, Gttingen: Greek Perceptions of Roman Literature in the 1 st Century BCE 10:00-10:45: Beate Czapla, Bonn: On the Turn from Greek to Latin as lingua franca: The Development of the Greek Normative Grammar and the Criteria of !""#$%&'() in the First Century BCE
10:45-11:15: Coffee Break
11:15-12:00: Ewen Bowie, Oxford: Men from Mytilene: Theophanes and Crinagoras 12:00-12:45: Tim Whitmarsh, Exeter: Reading Patronal Epigram
12:45-14:00: Lunch (optional)
14:00-14:45: Glenn W. Most, Pisa: Empire and System
14:45-15:30: Dennis Pausch, Gieen: "Augustus Chalymdatus. Greek Identity and the 'Bios Kaisaros' of Nicolaus of Damascus"
15:30-16:00: Coffee Break
16:00-16:45: Thomas A. Schmitz, Bonn: The Image of Athens in Diodorus Siculus 16:45-17:30: Matthew Fox, Birmingham: "The Style of the Past: Rhetoric, Identity and History between Greece and Rome" 17:30-18:15: Barbara Borg, Exeter: Questioning Greek Identity, Ancient and Modern
18.30: Dinner (optional)
Saturday, 14.10.2006
09:15-10:00: Nicolas Wiater, Bonn: Writing Roman History Shaping Greek Identity: The Ideology of Historiography in Dionysius of Halicarnassus 10:00-10:45: Manuel Baumbach, Zrich: Chariton und seine Leser das Verhandeln eines Bildungskanons
11:00-11:15: Coffee Break
11:15-12:30: Concluding Discussion
12:30: Lunch (optional)
15:30: Guided Tour to the Archeological Remains of Roman Bonn (Kathrin Jaschke, Department of Ancient History, Bonn)
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