Programma - Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

FACOLTÀ DI LETTERE E FILOSOFIA
DIPARTIMENTO DI STORIA, ARCHEOLOGIA E STORIA DELL’ARTE
Alexander’s Legacy
Texts, Documents, Fortune
Thursday, September 03, 2015, 14:30
Friday, September 04, 2015, 14:30
Chair: Edward ANSON, University of Arkansas
Welcome and Introduction
14:30
Chair: Frances POWNALL, University of Alberta
15:00
The Legend of Seleucus: The Signet Ring
Frances POWNALL, University of Alberta
Daniel OGDEN, University of Exeter
15:30
15:00
Why Did the Sources Believe or Disbelieve the
Story of Alexander and the Amazonian Queen?
Coffee break (16:00)
Alexander and Hellenistic Poetry
16:00
Silvia BARBANTANI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
17:00
16:30
Friday, September 04, 2015, 09:00
09:30
Fortress Egypt: The Abortive Invasions of 320 and
306
10:15
The First Unnumbered Ptolemy
or the Unhappy Coregency
17:00
Classical Sources and Proskynesis. History of a
Misunderstanding
Federicomaria MUCCIOLI, Università di Bologna
Saturday, September 05, 2015, 09:00
Chair: Joseph ROISMAN, Colby College
Lucia CRISCUOLO, Università di Bologna
9:00
Coffee break (10:00)
The First Antigonids and Alexander’s Memory
9:30
Alexander’s Military Reforms in Susa (324 B.C.)
Marek Jan OLBRICHT, University of Rzeszów
Victor ALONSO TRONCOSO, Universidade da Coruña
10:45
Friendship and Alliances in the Time of the
Diadochi
Sabine MÜLLER, Universität Innsbruck
Chair: Daniel OGDEN, University of Exeter
Edward ANSON, University of Arkansas
Coffee break (15:30)
I rapporti fra Callistene ed Alessandro nell’opinione
di Filodemo (nuovi elementi da PHerc 1050 e 1675)
Luisa PRANDI, Università di Verona
Alexander and the “Winner Historiography”
Giuseppe SQUILLACE, Università della Calabria
09:00
Ptolemy, Krateros and Alexander at the Hydaspes,
an Historiographical Approach
Timothy HOWE, St. Olaf College
Joseph ROISMAN, Colby College
16:30
Alexander’s Political Legacy in the West: Duris on
Agathocles
A “Lawless Piety” in an Age of Transition. Demetrius
the Besieger and the Political Uses of Greek
10:15
Religion
Manuela MARI, Università di Cassino
Knowledge and Religion in “Alexander’s Letter
about India”
Elias KOULAKIOTIS, University of Ioannina
Coffee break (10:00)
Northern Anatolia after Alexander:
Continuity and Change
Stefania GALLOTTA, Università “l’Orientale”di Napoli
Conclusions and End of Conference
Visit to Leonardo’s Last Supper (13:00)
Posters
Monica D’AGOSTINI, Livia DE MARTINIS, Laura LODDO, Annabella ORANGES
International Symposium
September 03-05, 2015
Room NI.110
Via Nirone, 15 - Milano
Contacts:
Cinzia Bearzot ([email protected])
Franca Landucci ([email protected])
Alberto Barzanò ([email protected])
Monica D’Agostini ([email protected])
Michela Iannone ([email protected])