And Call It Peace: New Perspectives on Ancient Wars
Graduate Student Conference
Ph.D. Program in Classics
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue, New York City
Saturday, April 25, 2009

9:00 am-10:00 am Registration and Breakfast
10:00 am-11:00 am Keynote Address
Counterinsurgency, Genocide, and Terrorism: How Modern is Ancient Warfare?
Barry Strauss, PhD
11:00 am-11:20am Break
11:20 am-12:30 pm Session 1: Classical Greece
Bringing the War Back Home: The Suffering of the Innocents in Aeschylus’Persians
Erin O'Bryan, University of Pittsburgh
The Memory of Greek Battle: Materiality Between Individual Experience and Collective Representation
Sebastian De Vivo, Stanford University
The Erotics of Hoplite Muscle-Armor in Classical Greece
Steven Kidd, New York University
12:30 pm-2:00 pm Lunch
2:00 pm-3:05 pm Session 2: Hellenistic Greece and Roman Republic
Ancient Lucania Before and After the Hannibalic War: Archaeological Phenomenology and Historical Interpretation
Ilaria Battiloro, University of Alberta
The Evolution of Ptolemaic Counter-insurgent Strategy
Paul Johstono, Duke University
The Call to Arva and the Call to Arma: The Conflict Between War and Farming in Tibullus 1.1 and 1.10
Charlie Blume, Florida State University
3:05 pm-3:25 pm Break
3:25 pm-4:50 pm Session 3: Roman Empire
Stolen Eagles: The Lost Aquilae of the Roman Army, 53 BC—AD 70
Robyn Le Blanc, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Militiae Amoris: Ovid’s Development of the Topos of Lover as Soldier in the Amores
Patrick Lake, Fordham University
The War to End All Treaties: Civil War and Treaty-Making in Lucan’s Bellum Civile
Danielle La Londe, New York University
Widows to Witches: Women and the aftermath of battle in the Greco-Roman literary imagination
Marian Makins, University of Pennsylvania
4:50 pm-5:00 pm Concluding Remarks
5:00 pm-6:00 pm Reception

Questions about the conference may be addressed to Jared Simard or Michael Broder.

Cosponsored by The PhD Program in Classics, the Classical and Ancient Near East Studies Group, the Doctoral Students’ Council, the Office of the Provost, the Office of the President, and the Classical Association of the Atlantic States.