Colloquium 'Sulla Felix: Politics, Public Image and Reception', 9th Celtic Conference in Classics

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Colloquium 'Sulla Felix: Politics, Public Image and Reception', 9th Celtic Conference in Classics

Veranstalter
Alexander Thein, University College Dublin; Alexandra Eckert, Universität Oldenburg
Veranstaltungsort
University College Dublin
Ort
Dublin
Land
Ireland
Vom - Bis
22.06.2016 - 25.06.2016
Deadline
13.06.2016
Website
https://sites.google.com/site/celticclassics2016/
Von
Alexandra Eckert, Universität Oldenburg; Alexander Thein, University College Dublin

Lucius Cornelius Sulla played a pivotal role in the history of the Late Roman Republic. He was the first to march an army on Rome and to conquer it twice. He sacked Athens after a difficult siege, plundered Greek sanctuaries, and imposed punitive indemnities on the cities of mainland Greece and Asia Minor during the first major war between Rome and Mithridates. On his return to Italy he fought an 18-month civil war and became the sole ruler of the Roman state. As civil war victor, he revived the office of the dictatorship and carried out a reactionary programme of judicial and legislative reforms. He also acted with unprecedented violence towards the defeated faction and instituted proscriptions, a system of state-sponsored violence which served to eliminate his political enemies and to enrich both himself and his partisans. Having abdicated from the dictatorship, he died as a private citizen in 78 B.C. Ancient writers viewed Sulla as an enigma, or more usually as a tyrant. In his own view, he was Sulla Felix or ‘Sulla the Fortunate’, a charismatic man of destiny blessed by the gods who triumphed over his enemies to become saviour of the Roman state.
The importance of Sulla’s career has long been recognized, yet it remains understudied and problematic. This colloquium aims to explore and re-examine Sulla’s political career, public image, and reception, and it will be the first international colloquium for scholars working on Sulla. It welcomes contributions which study the diverse range of evidence, e.g. literary texts, inscriptions, coins, and material culture, to offer fresh perspectives on Sulla’s actions and legacy in Rome, Italy, and the Greek East. Papers that shed new light on Sulla’s memoirs or other aspects of Sulla’s public image will be of particular interest.

Programm

Celtic Conference in Classics
University College Dublin, June 22-25, 2016

Panel ‘Sulla Felix: Politics, Public Image, and Reception’
Alexander Thein (Dublin) – Alexandra Eckert (Oldenburg)

Wednesday 22

Opening remarks within panels: A. Thein – A. Eckert

Session I: Political Culture and Competition (Chair: F. Santangelo)

Panel Paper 1: Cristina Rosillo-López (Seville)
‘Sulla, the People and Elections’

Panel Paper 2: Jörg Fündling (Aachen)
‘Rome Away from Rome: Sulla as Trailblazer for the Option of Rival Government’

Break

Plenary Lecture 1

Dinner - UCD Restaurant

Thursday 23

Session II: Warfare and Veteran Settlement (Chair: A. Thein)

Panel Paper 3: Borja Antela-Bernardez (Barcelona)
‘The Lion and the Fox: L. Cornelius Sulla from a warfare perspective’

Panel Paper 4: Arthur Keaveney (Canterbury)
‘Paludes et silvae: the ruin of the veteran’

Break

Session III: Sulla in the East (Chair: A. Eckert)

Panel Paper 5: Pierre Assenmaker (Namur)
‘Sulla and Aphrodisias: On the construction of oracular tradition and historical memory’

Panel Paper 6: Inger Kuin (Groningen)
‘What do Sulla and the Philosophers have in Common? Not much’

Lunch

Session IV: Remembering Sulla Felix (Chair: P. Assenmaker)

Panel Paper 7: Alexandra Eckert (Oldenburg)
‘Reconsidering the Sulla Myth’

Panel Paper 8: Christian Winkle (Stuttgart)
‘L. Cornelius Sulla – Between res publica and memoria’

Break

Plenary Lecture 2

Friday 24

Session V: Sulla and Historiography (Chair: C. Steel)

Panel Paper 9: Federico Santangelo (Newcastle)
‘Sulla in the Bellum Iugurthinum’

Panel Paper 10: Alison Rosenblitt (Oxford)
‘Sulla’s long shadow, and what Tacitus’ Annales can tell us about Sallust’s Historiae’

Break

Session VI: Sulla in the Forum (Chair: C. Rosillo-López)

Panel Paper 11: Catherine Steel (Glasgow)
‘Sulla the Orator’

Panel Paper 12: Alexander Thein (Dublin)
‘The Lacus Servilius’

Lunch

Panel Wrap-Up (Chairs: A. Eckert – A. Thein)

Break

Plenary Lecture 3

Dinner - St Helen's Hotel

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