Guardommi, e con le man s' aperse il petto, / Dicendo: "Or vedi com' io mi dilacco." (Dante Inferno XXVIII, 29–30)

Program

Friday evening, 9 November

Dinner for speakers at a local restaurant

Saturday, 10 November, Amherst College, Converse Hall, Cole Assembly Room

Registration and Coffee 8:30, Converse Hall, Lobby

Session 1: Explanation (9:00-12:30)
(chair: Andreola Rossi)

Opening remarks (10 minutes)

Papers (25 minutes each)

Harriet Flower, Princeton University

Civil Wars and the Fragility of Political Culture in Rome

Kurt Raaflaub, Brown University

Creating a Coalition of "True Romans": Caesar's Political Strategy in the Bellum Civile

William E. Metcalf, Yale University

The Language of Power

Campbell Grey, University of Pennsylvania

Civil War? What Civil War? Usurpers in the Scriptores Historiae Augustae

Break 10:50-11:10 (20 minutes) Converse Hall, Lobby

Christopher Pelling, Oxford University

Learning from that Violent Schoolmaster: Thucydidean Intertextuality and Some Greek Views of Roman Civil War

Response: Geoff Sumi, Mt. Holyoke College (20 minutes)

Discussion (30 minutes)

Lunch 12:30-1:45 Amherst College, Alumni House
(pre-registration required)

Keynote Address, 2:00-3:15  Converse Hall, Cole Assembly Room

T.P. Wiseman, University of Exeter

The Two-Headed State: How Romans Explained Civil War

Break 3:15-3:30

Session 2: Representation (3:30-6:00)
(chair: Cynthia Damon)

Papers (25 minutes each)

Barbara Kellum, Smith College

Representations and Re-presentations of the Battle of Actium

Alain Gowing, University of Washington

"Caesar Grabs My Pen": Writing Civil War under Tiberius

Elaine Fantham, Princeton University

Discordia fratrum: Aspects of Lucan's Conception of Civil War

Rhiannon Ash, Merton College, Oxford

Tarda moles civilis belli: The Weight of the Past in Tacitus' Histories

Response: Elizabeth Keitel, University of Massachusetts Amherst (15 minutes)

Discussion (30 minutes)

Conference Dinner: 6:30-9:00, Amherst College, Alumni House
(pre-registration required)

Sunday, 11 November, University of Massachusetts, Memorial Hall

Coffee 8:30

Session 3: Dissimulation (9:00-12:30)
(chair, Nancy Shumate)

Papers (25 minutes each)

Andrew Feldherr, Princeton University

"Dionysiac Poetics" and the Memory of Civil War in Horace's Cleopatra Ode

Michèle Lowrie, New York University

Spurius Maelius: Dictatorship and the Homo Sacer

Andreola Rossi, Amherst College

Ab urbe condita: The History of Rome in the Shield of Aeneas

David Quint, Yale University

"Aeacidae Pyrrhi": Patterns of Myth and History in Aeneid 1–6

Coffee break 10:50-11:10 (20 minutes)

Brian Breed, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Propertius on Not Writing about Civil Wars

Response: Richard Tarrant, Harvard University (20 minutes)

Discussion (30 minutes)

Lunch: 12:30-1:45, UMass, Campus Center 1009
(pre-registration required)

Session 4:  Translation (2:00-4:30)
(chair, Brian Breed)

Papers (25 minutes each)

William W. Batstone, Ohio State University

Word at War, The Prequel:  Writing the Catilinarian Conspiracy

Denis Feeney, Princeton University

Doing the Numbers: The Mathematics of Civil War in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra

Richard Thomas, Harvard University

"My Brother Got Killed in the War": Civil War Reception

Cynthia Damon, Amherst College

Intestinum scelus: Civil war exempla and the suppression of dissent

Response: Christina Kraus, Yale University (15 minutes)

Discussion and Wrap-up (35 minutes)

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