9th Annual Graduate Colloquium in Classics

Writing the Past
Fact and Fiction in Ancient Historiography

Jacque Louis David: Rape of the Sabine Women, 1799 (Musee du Louvre, Paris).

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: JOHN MARINCOLA, Florida State University

“Indeed, history, so it has been contended, needs to be as convincing as fiction”
-Ronald Syme, “Fictional History Old and New: Hadrian”


Schedule of Events

 

8:45-9:30am - Breakfast

9:30-10:30am - Opening Address

 

 

  • "Why Latin Historiography: On Some Uses and Abuses of History in the Republic"
    William Batstone, The Ohio State university

 

10:30-11:30am Panel 1

 

"Epinikios Historiē“: The Importance of Pindar and Poetic Pleasure for Herodotus' Inquiry"
Matt Simonton, Standford University

"When you have to tell a lie, tell it': Herodotus and Darius' Bisitun Inscriptions"
Nicholas Geller,University of Michigan

 

11:30-1:00pm - Lunch

1:00-2:00pm - Coffee Break

2:15-3:15pm - Panel 2

 

  • "Myth and History's Audience in Thucydides' Peloponnesian War"
    Sarah Miller Esposito, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

    "Cicero's Epistolary Brundisium"
    Virginia Closs, University of Pensylvania

 

2:00-2:15pm - Coffee Break

2:15-3:15pm - Panel 3

 

  • "Ovid's Fact-Making Fictions"
    Nandini Pandey, College of Wooster/Univeristy of California Berkeley

    "Valerius Flaccus, Historian: The Ends of Ovid and Lucan in the Argonautico"
    Leo Landrey, Brown University

 

3:15-3:30pm - Coffee Break

3:30-4:30pm - Keynote Speaker

 

"Did the Greeks and Romans Believe in Their Histories?"
John Marincola, Florida State University

 


Please direct any questions to Mark Wright or Corey Hackworth