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omnium annalium monumenta
HISTORICAL EVIDENCE and HISTORICAL WRITING
in Republican Rome
Conference at the INSTITUTUM ROMANUM FINLANDIAE and THE BRITISH SCHOOL AT ROME,
31 October – 1 November 2013
PROGRAMME
Thursday, 31 October
IRF (Passeggiata del Gianicolo 10)
9.30
9.35
9.45
10.30
TUOMAS HEIKKILÄ (IRF)
Welcome
CHRISTOPHER J. SMITH and KAJ SANDBERG
Opening of the Conference
JOHN RICH (University of Nottingham)
Annales and Annales Maximi: The Origins of the Roman Annalistic Tradition
HANS BECK (McGill University, Montreal)
The Discovery of Numa’s Writings: Roman Sacral Law and the Early Historians
11.15
Coffee
11.30
12.15
CHRISTOPHER SIMON (Yale University)
An Historian’s Friends: Republican Historiography in the Light of Varro and Festus
DUNCAN MACRAE (University of Cincinnati)
Diligentissumus investigator antiquitatis? Rethinking ‘Antiquarianism’ and Historical
Evidence in Republican Rome
13.00
Lunch
14.30
FRANCISCO PINA POLO (Universidad de Zaragoza)
How Much History Did the Romans Know? Historical References in Cicero’s Speeches
to the People
ANDREW RIGGSBY (University of Texas at Austin / Princeton University)
Cicero’s Use of Documentary Evidence
HENRIETTE VAN DER BLOM (University of Glasgow / Wolfson College, Oxford)
Ciceronian Constructions of the Oratorical Past
15.15
16.00
20.00
Dinner at Hostaria Antica Roma (Colombario dei liberti di Augusto, Via Appia Antica
87)
Friday, 1 November
BSR (Via Antonio Gramsci 61)
9.15
10.00
MASSIMILIANO DI FAZIO (Università degli Studi, Pavia)
Figures of Memory: Mezentius, Aulus Vibenna, Valerius Publicola between History and
Legend
KAJ SANDBERG (Åbo Akademi University, Turku)
Traces of the Past in Augustan Rome? Considerations about Social Memory, Popular
Imagination and the Topography of Ancient Tales in Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
10.45
Coffee
11.15
GABRIELE CIFANI (Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata)
Santuari arcaici e memoria collettiva nella Roma tardo-repubblicana
DENNIS PAUSCH (Universität Regensburg)
Livy’s 'Battle in the Forum' between Roman Monuments and Greek Literature
12.00
12.45
Lunch
14.00
KARL-JOACHIM HÖLKESKAMP (Universität zu Köln)
Memoria by Multiplication. The Cornelii Scipiones in Monumental Memory
PENELOPE DAVIES (University of Texas at Austin)
Controlling Civic Memory in Late Republican Rome
SETH BERNARD (Swarthmore College)
Aedificare, res damnosissima: Building and the Construction of Historical Narrative in
Livy, Books V–VI
14.45
15.30
20.00
Dinner at Ambasciata d’Abruzzo (Via Pietro Tacchini 26)