Fourth North American Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy
Epigraphy and Public Life in the Graeco-Roman World
University of Chicago, January 8-9, 2024
Tentative Schedule
Day 1: Monday 8 January 2024, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, University of Chicago
| 9.00 – 10.30 | Session 1A. Epigraphy and civic life in the Athenian polis 1. Catherine Keesling (Georgetown U.), Civic Victory Statues in Classical Athens 2. Danielle Kellogg (U. Cincinnati), Epigraphy and Athenian Citizenship Practice: Tracking Citizen Mobility and its Repercussions with Inscriptions 3. Edward Jones (Balliol College, Oxford), The Epigraphy of Local Administration: Corruption in the Attic Associations Session 1B. Fiscal administration and economic strategies in the Roman Empire 1. James Alexander Macksoud (Stanford U.), Fiscal Administration in the Cities of the Early Empire: Evidence from the leges municipales 2. Zhengyuan Zhang (U. California, Berkeley), How did the Romans Exploit a Silver Mine? A New Reading of the Tablets of Vipasca 3. Melinda Szabó (Eötvös Loránd U., Budapest), Along the Rivers. Different Merchant Strategies of Fluvial Trade in Pannonia |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Refreshment Break. POSTER SESSION |
| 11.00 – 1.00 | Session 2A. Politics and diplomacy in Classical and Hellenistic Greece 1. Marcaline J. Boyd (U. Delaware), An Old Tyrant and a New Athenian Name: New Insights into the Athenian Alliance with Dionysius I of Syracuse (IG II2 105 and 523) 2. Jeremy Trevett (York U.), IG I3 125 and Demosthenes, Against Leptines 3. Oliver Clarke (New College, Oxford), The polis, the Ambassador, and the Kings: Nasos/Pordoselene and Civic Self-Presentation in the Early Hellenistic Period 4. Claude Eilers (McMaster U.), A Spartan King’s Letter and its Metadata (Jos. AJ 12. 226-7; cf. 1 Macc. 12.20-3) Session 2B. Enslaved persons and manumission in the Roman world 1. Alex Mullen (U. Nottingham), Alexander Meyer (U. Western Ontario), Roger Tomlin (Wolfson College, Oxford), Setting Sale: A Deed of Sale for an Enslaved Person, the First Results of New Investigation of the Vindolanda Stylus Tablets 2. Emily Mitchell (Harvard U.), Free at last? Conceptualizing Liberty in Latin Verse Epitaphs for the Enslaved 3. Alex Cushing (Loyola U., Maryland), The Concept of beneficium manumissionis and its (Non) Appearance on Freedperson Epitaphs 4. Gaia Gianni (Ohio State U.), Deliciae of the Imperial Family: Childhood, Labor, and Manumission |
| 1.00 – 2.30 | Lunch, Quadrangle Club |
| 2.30 – 4.00 | Session 3A. The city of Rome: epigraphy, topography and politics under Augustus and beyond 1. Jeff Easton (Southwestern U.), An (Almost) Unspeakable Office: Augustus, the Column of Duilius, and the Roman Dictatorship in the Third Century BCE 2. Andreas Bendlin (U. Toronto at Mississauga), The “Augustan Revolution” Seen from Below: Contextualizing the Roman Symphoniaci 3. Morgan Palmer (U. Nebraska, Lincoln), Civic Service and Urban Resilience on Inscriptions Honoring Vestal Virgins Session 3B. “Faire la liste” in Hellenistic and Roman Anatolia 1. Patrick Baker (U. Laval), Hellenistic Contribution Lists from the chōra of Xanthos 2. Hüseyin Uzunoğlu (Akdeniz University, Antalya), A New List of Foreign Judges from Alabanda in Caria from the Late-1st / Early 2nd Century AD 3. Hakan Özlen (U. Wisconsin-Madison), Uncovering the Link Between Consecration and Manumission in Phrygia’s Temple of Apollo Lairbenos: Insights from new Katagraphai Inscriptions Session 3C. The discourse of inscribed epitaphs and epigrams in the Greek and Roman worlds 1. Margaret Foster (U. Michigan), The Sphinx and the Riddle of CEG 120 2. Colleen Kron (Ohio State U.), Et reparatus item vivis in Elysiis: How to Make your Child seem Successful in the Afterlife 3. Laura Soffiantini (KU, Leuven), “The Ties that Bind”. Interpersonal Networks and Affective Bonds in Roman Commemorative Contexts |
| 4.00 – 4.30 | Refreshment break. POSTER SESSION |
| 4.30 – 6.00 | Session 4A. New documents from Roman Hispania 1. Alejandro G. Sinner (U. Victoria) & V. Revilla Calvo (U. Barcelona), Manlii in the Territory of Iluro (Hispania Citerior): A New Inscription from the Roman Sanctuary of Can Modolell (Cabrera de Mar) 2. Jonathan Edmondson (York U.), Honouring and Commemorating Augustus and Members of his Family at Augusta Emerita, capital of Lusitania 3. Flavio Santini (U. California, Berkeley), Like Father, like Son. A New Document on the Accession of Tiberius from Baetica Session 4B. Honoring the elite in the Greek world under Roman rule 1. Valentina Vari (U. Roma 1–La Sapienza / Rijksuniversiteit of Groningen), Writing Latin in Greece: The Honorific Inscriptions 2. Eliza Gettel (Villanova U.), A Federal cursus in Roman Hellas 3. Georgios Tsolakis (U. Chicago), Honorific Inscriptions from the Sebasteion of Lyttos Session 4C. Politics in action in the Greek world from the archaic to the Roman imperial period 1. Jesse Obert (U. California, Berkeley), Legislating Identity: The Piecemeal Regulation of Warriorhood in Archaic and Classical Crete 2. Serena Barbuto (U. Milano), The Contribution of Epigraphy to the Understanding of Amnesty in Ancient Greece 3. Shanshan Bai (Sichuan University, Chengdu), The Demos in Roman Spartan Inscriptions: Democratic Factors in an Oligarchical Society |
| 6.00 – 6.30 | Break |
| 6.30 – 8.00 | Keynote lecture: Alain Bresson (U. Chicago/Bordeaux), When Their Kings Left: Greek Epigraphy in Western Asia after the Fall of Hellenistic Monarchies |
| 8.00 | Reception, Quadrangle Club |
Day 2: Tuesday 9 January 2024, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, University of Chicago
| 9.00 – 11.00 | Session 5A: PANEL. Rural communities in Roman Italy: buildings, meeting places and community life 1. Elisabetta Todisco (U. Bari), New Insights on the paganici 2. Matilde de Moura Pinheiro Frias Costa (U. Bari), The Meeting Places of the pagus 3. Francesco Mongelli (U. Bari), Buildings in the Roman Countryside: The Contribution of the Slaves Session 5B. The epigraphy of mobility and displacement in the Graeco-Roman world 1. James Hua (Merton College, Oxford), Displaced Populations and their Social Ties in the Public Epigraphy of Classical Greece: The Case of the Plataians 2. Olivia Elder (Merton College, Oxford), Inscribing Foreigners in the Roman Republic 3. Itamar Levin (Brown U.), Epigraphic Evidence of Journey Cenotaphs |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Refreshment Break. POSTER SESSION |
| 11.00 – 1.00 | Session 6A. New techniques for reading and interpreting epigraphic data 1. Eleni Sfyridou; Georgios Papaioannou; Manolis Gergatsoulis; Eleftherios Kalogeros; Konstantinos Politis (Ionian U., Corfu), Representing, Documenting and Modelling Epigraphic Data via CIDOC CRM and its Extensions 2. Victoria Muccilli (York U.), Quantitative Approaches to Epigraphy in R: A Computational Case Study of Onomastics in the Iberian Peninsula in the Roman Imperial Period 3. Zevavi Husser (Biola U.), Network Analysis and the Epigraphy of Jupiter 4. Alexander Meyer (U. Western Ontario) & Alex Mullen (U. Nottingham), A Matter of Micrometers: Imaging Roman Stylus Tablets Session 6B. Regulating finances, urban markets and the countryside in Hellenistic and Roman Greece and Asia Minor 1. Talia Prussin (University of British Columbia), The Seleukid klerouchia: An Epigraphical Reassessment 2. Qizhen Xie (Brown U.), Covered Up but not Down Below: The Limited Reach of Seleucid Rural Administration in Western Anatolia 3. Sven Günther & Duoduo Zhang (Northeast Normal University, Changchun), Who is First, and Who Follows? Analyzing the Subscription Decree ISE II.99 (Crannon, Thessaly) through the Lens of New Institutional Economics, Game Theory, and Affordances 4. Eleni Theodorou (U. Wien), Financing the agoranomia in the Cities of Greece and Asia Minor under the Principate |
| 1.00 – 2.30 | Lunch, Quadrangle Club |
| 2.30 – 4.00 | Session 7A. Epigraphy, spectacle and social life in Pompeii and the Bay of Naples 1. Sarah Levin-Richardson (U. Washington) Epigraphy and the Lives of vernae on the Bay of Naples 2. John Bodel (Brown U.), M. Venerius Secundio, Impresario: Ludi at Pompeii 3. Margaret L. Laird (U. Delaware), Drawing Gladiators at Pompeii: Graffiti, Regional Inflection and the Ancient Mind’s Eye Session 7B. Epigraphic light on agrarian life in the Graeco-Roman world 1. Paul Iversen (Case Western U.), Agrarian Life and the Parapegma Tradition (With Particular Focus on the Parapegma Text on the Antikythera Mechanism) 2. Jason C. Morris (Towson, MD), The Law of the Land: Agrimensores and Social Identity in the Roman Provinces |