If the numismatic content isn't enough to tempt, attendees also get to attend 16 alternate lectures on each the following topics (making a total of 320 choices), as well as the four yet-to-be-announced plenary talks:
Panel 1:
Achilles TatiusPanel 2: Alcibiades:
History, Characterization and Reception
Panel 3:
Cicero across Genres
Panel 4: Civilisations and Cities: too many Romes?
Panel 5: Modern (Ancient) Epic
Panel 6: Coins of the
Roman Revolution, 49 BC-AD 14: Evidence without Hindsight (that's our stuff!)
Panel 7: The Contexts of Late Antique Literature
Panel 8: The Development of the Indian Ocean Trade in
Antiquity Panel 9: Ethnicity and Multiculturalism in Herodotus: Through Others’ Eyes
Panel 10: Forensic narratives in Athenian courts
Panel 11: Topics, Traditions and Perspectives in Historiography on
Alexander the Great Panel 12: Imperial Panegyric from
Diocletian to
Constantine Panel 13: Landscapes of Dread
Panel 14: Late Antique Palaces and Palace Culture: patterns of transculturation
Panel 15: Myth and
History in the Historiography of Early
Rome Panel 16: New Approaches to Ancient Greek Warfare
Panel 17: Oppositional Tendencies in Myth and Mythography
Panel 18: The Origins of the Olympic Games and the Development of Olympia before the 5th century BC
Panel 19: The
Roman Imperial Court from the Antonines to the Theodosians
Panel 20:
Sulla Felix: Politics, Public Image, and Reception
Panel 21: Unease as opportunity: elite responses to the rise of
Persia 559-479 BCE
Of the above, I'm also rather interested in 15: Myth and
History in the Historiography of Early
Rome; and 20:
Sulla Felix: Politics, Public Image, and Reception. Here are their contents:
Myth and
History in the Historiography of Early
Rome The secession of the plebs and its Indo-European background.
Aetiology and (re)construction: the memory of early
Rome between realities and invention.
Mythical Aborigines and Augustan historiography.
The character of
Roman collective memory and the construction of
Roman ideals.
The war of Porsenna in Livy and Dionysius.
Dionysius and
his sources on the mythical prehistory of
Rome.
Privatus or tribunus celerum: the two ways to historicize and rationalize the myth of
Lucius Brutus?.
Political violence between myth and
history: the example of Accius and
Cicero.
The Epiphanies of the
Dioscuri: Myth or
History?
Le conflit patricio-plébéien entre mythe et histoire : comparaison
des sécessions de la plèbe chez Tite-Live et Denys d’Halicarnasse.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus on how to write myth.
Men, Gods and Places in Early
Rome : Myths in the historical Narratives in the 1st century BC.
Sculpting
History into Myth:
Tarpeia, Moral Legislation, and Foreign Conquest.
Roman myth and
history: the memory of the Fabii at Cremera.
Sulla Felix: Politics, Public Image, and Reception
‘The
Lion and the Fox': L.
Cornelius Sulla from a warfare perspective.
Sulla and
Aphrodisias: on the construction of oracular tradition and historical memory.
Reconsidering the
Sulla Myth
Rome Away from
Rome:
Sulla as Trailblazer for the Option of Rival Government. Jörg Fündling (RWTH Aachen)
Paludes et silvae: the ruin of the veteran.
What do
Sulla and the philosophers have in common? Not much.
Sulla’s long shadow, and what
Tacitus’ Annales can tell us about Sallust’s Historiae.
Sulla, the People and elections: a reassessment.
Sulla in the Bellum Jugurthinum.
Sulla the Orator.
The Lacus Servilius.
L.
Cornelius Sulla between
res publica and
memoria.
So I'll dive out of the less interesting coin stuff for some of these. The full list of lectures is here:
https://sites.google.com/site/celticclassics2016/panelsI always like to encourage collectors to attend conferences. No special skills are required, there's no exam at the end, you just have to be able to listen, and if you feel like it, to join in discussions. But this always seems to fall on deaf years, at least as far as responses from
Forum members are concerned. What could be more enjoyable than to spend a week and weekend in Dublin, talking about
Imperatorial coinage,
Sulla, early
Roman myths, and
Cicero? What a lot of fun for a hundred euros!