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
Final Program (28 December 2023)
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| Day 1 | Monday 8 January 2024 Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, University of Chicago |
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| 9.00 – 10.30 | Session 1A. Epigraphy and civic life in the Athenian polis. Chair: Laura Gawlinski (Loyola University, Chicago). Location: Breasted Hall. 1. Catherine Keesling (Georgetown University), Civic Victory Statues in Classical Athens 2. Danielle Kellogg (University of Cincinnati), Epigraphy and Athenian Citizenship Practice: Tracking Citizen Mobility and its Repercussions with Inscriptions 3. Edward Jones (University of Oxford), The Epigraphy of Local Administration: Corruption in the Attic Associations Session 1B. Fiscal administration and economic strategies in the Roman Empire Chair: Katelin McCullough (Hollins University). Location: LaSalle Bank Room. 1. James Alexander Macksoud (Stanford University), Fiscal Administration in the Cities of the Early Empire: Evidence from the leges municipales 2. Zhengyuan Zhang (University of California, Berkeley), How did the Romans Exploit a Silver Mine? A New Reading of the Tablets of Vipasca 3. Melinda Szabó (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest), The Slave with a Whip. A Family-Based Merchant Network on the River Sava in Roman Pannonia |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Refreshment Break and Poster Session. Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge, 5737 S. University Avenue, Room 304 (Taverna) |
| 11.00 – 1.00 | Session 2A. Politics and diplomacy in Classical and Hellenistic Greece Chair: James Sickinger (Florida State University). Location: Breasted Hall. 1. Marcaline J. Boyd (University of 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 University), IG I3 125 and Demosthenes, Against Leptines 3. Oliver Clarke (University of Oxford), The polis, the Ambassador, and the Kings: Nasos/Pordoselene and Civic Self-Presentation in the Early Hellenistic Period 4. Claude Eilers (McMaster University), 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 Chair: Sarah Levin-Richardson (University of Washington). Location: LaSalle Bank Room. 1. Alex Mullen (University of Nottingham), Alexander Meyer (University of 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 University), Free at last? Conceptualizing Liberty in Latin Verse Epitaphs for the Enslaved 3. Alex Cushing (University of Rochester), The Concept of beneficium manumissionis and its (Non-) Appearance on Freedperson Epitaphs 4. Gaia Gianni (The Ohio State University), Deliciae of the Imperial Family: Childhood, Labor, and Manumission |
| 1.00 – 2.30 | Lunch, Quadrangle Club, 1155 East 57th St. |
| 2.30 – 4.00 | Session 3A. The city of Rome: epigraphy, topography and politics under Augustus and beyond Chair: Jonathan Edmondson (York University). Location: Breasted Hall. 1. Jeff Easton (Southwestern University), An (Almost) Unspeakable Office: Augustus, the Column of Duilius, and the Roman Dictatorship in the Third Century BCE 2. Andreas Bendlin (University of Toronto at Mississauga), The “Augustan Revolution” Seen from Below: Contextualizing the Roman Symphoniaci 3. Morgan Palmer (University of Nebraska, Lincoln), Civic Service and Urban Resilience on Inscriptions Honoring Vestal Virgins Session 3B. “Faire la liste” in Hellenistic and Roman Anatolia Chair: Paul Iversen (Case Western University). Location: 212 Conference Room. 1. Patrick Baker (Université 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 3. Hakan Özlen (University of 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 Chair: Gavin Blasdel (Rijksuniversiteit, Groningen). Location: LaSalle Bank Room. 1. Margaret Foster (University of Michigan), The Sphinx and the Riddle of CEG 120 2. Colleen Kron (The Ohio State University), 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 and Poster Session. Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge, 5737 S. University Avenue, Room 304 (Taverna) |
| 4.30 – 6.00 | Session 4A. New documents from Roman Hispania Chair: Carlos Noreña (University of California, Berkeley). Location: Breasted Hall. 1. Alejandro G. Sinner (University of Victoria) & Víctor Revilla Calvo (Universitat de 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 University), Honouring and Commemorating Augustus and Members of his Family at Augusta Emerita, capital of Lusitania 3. Flavio Santini (University of 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 Chair: Gil Renberg (Howard University). Location: 212 Conference Room. 1. Valentina Vari (U. Roma 1–La Sapienza / Rijksuniversiteit of Groningen), Writing Latin in Greece: The Honorific Inscriptions 2. Eliza Gettel (Villanova University), A Federal cursus in Roman Hellas 3. Georgios Tsolakis (University of 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 Chair: Glenn Bugh (Virginia Tech.). Location: LaSalle Bank Room. 1. Jesse Obert (University of Pittsburg), Legislating Identity: The Piecemeal Regulation of Warriorhood in Archaic and Classical Crete 2. Serena Barbuto (Università di 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, Breasted Hall Alain Bresson (University of Chicago/Bordeaux) When Their Kings Left: Greek Epigraphy in Western Asia after the Fall of Hellenistic Monarchies |
| 8.00 – 10:00 | Conference Dinner, Quadrangle Club, 1155 East 57th St. |
| Day 2 | Tuesday 9 January 2024 Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, University of Chicago |
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| 9.00 – 11.00 | Session 5A: PANEL. Rural communities in Roman Italy: buildings, meeting places and community life Chair: John Bodel (Brown University). Location: Breasted Hall. 1. Elisabetta Todisco (Università di Bari), New Insights on the paganici 2. Matilde de Moura Pinheiro Frias Costa (Università di Bari), The Meeting Places of the pagus 3. Francesco Mongelli (Università di Bari), Buildings in the Roman Countryside: The Contribution of the Slaves Session 5B. The epigraphy of mobility and displacement in the Graeco-Roman world Chair: Andreas Bendlin (University of Toronto). Location: LaSalle Bank Room. 1. James Hua (University of Oxford), Displaced Populations and their Social Ties in the Public Epigraphy of Classical Greece: The Case of the Plataians 2. Olivia Elder (University of Oxford), Inscribing Foreigners in the Roman Republic 3. Itamar Levin (Brown University), Epigraphic Evidence of Journey Cenotaphs |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Refreshment Break and Poster Session. Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge, 5737 S. University Avenue, Room 304 (Taverna) |
| 11.00 – 1.00 | Session 6A. New techniques for reading and interpreting epigraphic data Rebecca Benefiel (Washington & Lee University). Location: Breasted Hall. 1. Zevavi Husser (Biola University), Network Analysis and the Epigraphy of Jupiter 2. Victoria Muccilli (York University), Quantitative Approaches to Epigraphy in R: A Computational Case Study of Onomastics in the Iberian Peninsula in the Roman Imperial Period 3. Alexander Meyer (University of Western Ontario) & Alex Mullen (University of Nottingham), A Matter of Micrometers: Imaging Roman Stylus Tablets 4. Eleni Sfyridou; Georgios Papaioannou; Manolis Gergatsoulis; Eleftherios Kalogeros; Konstantinos Politis (Ionian University, Corfu), Representing, Documenting and Modelling Epigraphic Data via CIDOC CRM and its Extensions Session 6B. Regulating finances, urban markets and the countryside in Hellenistic and Roman Greece and Asia Minor Chair: Daniel Leon (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). Location: LaSalle Bank Room. 1. Talia Prussin (University of British Columbia), The Seleukid klerouchia: An Epigraphical Reassessment 2. Qizhen Xie (Brown University), Covered Up but not Down Below: The Limited Reach of Seleucid Rural Administration in Western Anatolia 3. Paul Iversen (Case Western University), Agrarian Life and the Parapegma Tradition (With Particular Focus on the Parapegma Text on the Antikythera Mechanism) 4. Eleni Theodorou (Universität Wien), Financing the agoranomia in the Cities of Greece and Asia Minor under the Principate |
| 1.00 – 2.30 | Lunch, Quadrangle Club, 1155 East 57th St. |
| 2.30 – 4.00 | Session 7A. Epigraphy, spectacle and social life in Pompeii and the Bay of Naples Chair: Steven Tuck (Miami University, Ohio). Location: Breasted Hall. 1. Sarah Levin-Richardson (University of Washington) Epigraphy and the Lives of vernae on the Bay of Naples 2. John Bodel (Brown University), M. Venerius Secundio, Impresario: Ludi at Pompeii 3. Margaret L. Laird (University of 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 Chair: Claude Eilers (McMaster University). Location: LaSalle Bank Room. 1. 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 |
| POSTERS Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge, 5737 S. University Ave., Room 304 (Taverna) Mon. 8 Jan., 10.30-11.00 a.m., 4.00-4.30 p.m.; Tues. 9 Jan., 10.30-11.00 a.m. |
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| Eugenia Andreeva (University of Virginia), Zeus Bronton and the Dead: On an Intriguing Epigraphic Record from Northern Phrygia Rebecca Benefiel (Washington and Lee University), A Scholarly Digital Resource for Studying Social Exchange: The Ancient Graffiti Project Grace DeAngelis (Princeton University), The menologia rustica: Recontextualizing the ‘Rural’ Calendars Eric Hensley (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Lycian Boubon and the Imperial Cult: A Comparative Epigraphic Study Marietta Horster (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz), Imran Asif (University of Oxford), Jonathan Prag (University of Oxford), Petra Hermánková (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz), Towards a FAIR(er) Epigraphy Alexander Kirk (Princeton University), Freeborn and vernae Children: New Understandings of Status Representations on Funerary Monuments Randall Souza (Seattle University), A New Old Puzzle from Morgantina Steven Tuck (Miami University, Ohio), A New/Old nomen Proposed for the Puteolanus garum Labels Tom Wang (Yale University), “Guild Inscriptions of Ephesus: A Comparative Study of the Ephesian Guild Culture and the unique status of the silversmith” |