Urban Disasters and The Roman Imagination

 

Saturday, November 7, 2015, UMass Amherst Campus Center

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This colloquium is free and open to the public. There is no registration fee.

Please register by October 15, 2015 using the online form at the bottom of this page or by mailing this paper form.

 

OUT OF THE ASHES: ROME'S BEGINNINGS AT TROY

Brigitte Libby, Harvard University

 

HORACE AND THE RHETORIC OF DECLINE

Andreas Zanker, Amherst College

 

THE UNMAKING OF ROME: CLADES PUBLICA AND CENSORSHIP IN SENECAN THOUGHT

Virginia Closs, University of Massachusetts Amherst

 

THE SACKS OF ROME

Joseph Farrell, University of Pennsylvania

 

RUIN, RECONSTRUCTION AND HISTORY

Andrew Johnston, Yale University

 

THE SPOILS OF WAR: VICTORY AS URBAN DISASTER

Jessica Clark, Florida State University

 

CAESAR AND THE URBS CAPTA AT MASSILIA

Elizabeth Keitel, University of Massachusetts Amherst

 

JOSEPHUS' MEMORY OF JERUSALEM: A STUDY IN URBAN DISASTER

Honora Chapman, California State University, Fresno