Day 1 - Tuesday 18 September
(GABF 04/711 – RUB Building GA)
13:00 – 13:10 Welcome: Bernhard Linke, Christian Wendt - Ancient History, RUB
13:10 – 13:30 The project „Spoils in the Roman Republic“, 2016-2018 Saskia Roselaar & Marian Helm
13:30 - 14:00 Opening remarks: Hans Beck (McGill): Global Spoils on a Local Stage: the Case of Republican Rome
1. Session: The definition and importance of spoils – a Comparison
14:05 – 14:40 Nathan Rosenstein (OSU): Spoils and the Roman Military
14:40 – 15:15 Michael Kleu (Köln): Spoils in the Macedonian Kingdoms of the 4th century BC
Day 2 – Wednesday 19 September
(GABF 04/711 – RUB Building GA)
2. Session: Spoils in the Early Roman Republic
9:10 – 9:45 Jeremy Armstrong (Auckland): Spoils and early Roman warfare (up to c. 300)
9:45 – 10:20 Peter Vanderpuy (OSU): Spoils and the decline of hierarchy agriculture economy
10:20 – 10:35 Discussion of papers
10:45 – 11:20 Marian Helm (RUB): Born to plunder? – The ideological framework and legitimation of Roman expansion
11:20 – 11:55 Stefan Fraß (Gießen): Spoils in Archaic and Classical Greece – A comparison
11:55 – 12:30 Michael Taylor (SCU): Tributum and stipendium
12:30 – 12:40 Discussion of papers
Day 3 – Thursday 20 September
(Beckmanns Hof, Room Shanghai – Botanical Garden)
3. Session: The changing nature of Spoils
Subsection A: The Age of the Punic Wars
9:10 – 9:45 Audrey Bertrand (Paris-Est): Early Colonization
9:45 - 10:20 Marleen Termeer (Leiden): Roman warfare and coinage production in Italy – Spoils and the Allies
10:20 – 10:35 Discussion of papers
10:45 – 11:20 Karl-Joachim Hölkeskamp (Köln): The self-fashioning of the new elite: spoils as representation of victory
11:20 – 11:55 John Rich (Nottingham): Spoils and Triumphs in the Age of the Punic Wars
11:55 – 12:10 Discussion of papers
Subsection B: The Provinces
13:45 – 14:20 Simon Lentzsch (Köln): Problems of warfare in allied territory in the 2nd Punic War
14:20 – 14:55 Laura Pfuntner (Belfast): The long-term impact of the Roman "provincialization" of Sicily in the second and first centuries BC
14:55 – 15:10 Discussion of papers
15:20 – 15:55 Toni Ñaco del Hoyo & Gerard Cabezas-Guzmán (ICREA/Girona): Spoils and supplies. Unsystematic extortion and military logistics in Mid-Republican Hispania.
15:55 – 1630: Bradley Jordan (Oxford): vectigalia nervos esse rei publicae: The revenues of Asia and the evolution of the res publica
16:30 – 16:45 Discussion of papers
Day 4 – Friday 21 September
(Beckmanns Hof, Room Shanghai – Botanical Garden)
4. Session: The Impact of Spoils on Roman Italy
Subsection A – The impact of Spoils on Roman Italy
9:10 – 9:45 Michael Fronda (McGill): Praeda, Latini and socii: the movement of spoils in Italy in the 2nd century BCE
9:45 – 10:20 Marta García Morcillo (Roehampton): Markets on the Move: Traders, Institutions and Commercialisation of Spoils of War in the Roman Republic
10:20 – 10:55 John Patterson (Cambridge): Investments of spoils in Rome and Italy
10:55 – 11:30 Laura Nazim (RUB): The impact of Roman expansion on Etruria
11:30 – 11:50 Discussion of papers
Subsection B – Economic consequences of resource reallocation
13:30 – 14:05 Saskia Roselaar (RS Plus Visiting International Professor RUB): The impact of resource reallocation on Roman Italy: the case of the Italian allies
14:05 – 14:40 François Gauthier (McGill): Plunder and common soldiers in the 3rd and 2nd century
14:40 – 15:15 Jack Schropp (Innsbruck): War and slavery in the Late Republic
15:15 – 15:30 Discussion of papers
15:45 – 16:30 Final discussion
Program may be subject to change. Please register in advance by contacting mathis.hartmann@rub.de