The registration deadline for the one-day conference entitled, "Discourses
of War in the Roman World from Caesar to Heraclius", to be held Saturday,
March 8th, at the University of Warwick, has been extended to this FRIDAY,
FEBRUARY 29th.
Although warfare in ancient Rome has long been a topic of interest, the
role of culture in the changing practices of war has not. The aim of this
conference is to consider some of the issues raised by Ted Lendon’s
Soldiers and Ghosts (2005), and in particular his discussion of the
relationship between the discourses of war and reality in the Roman world,
with special emphasis on the period from Caesar to Heraclius. The list of
speakers, with the titles of their papers, follows:
Ted Lendon (University of Virginia) - ‘What Roman Soldiers Thought About
Each Other: Patterns of Solidarity in Roman Military Inscriptions’
Harry Sidebottom (Oxford University) – ‘Battle in the Greek Novels: the
Ideological uses of fighting in popular fiction, or John Buchan meets
Heliodorus’
Hugh Elton (University of Trent, Canada) - ‘How to Write History’ (with
apologies to Lucian and Lendon
Boris Rankov (Royal Holloway, London) – ‘Milites, masks and mock-battles’
Simon James (University of Leicester) - ‘On Soldiering and War: the
verbal, the visual and the material in soldierly discourses’
Michael Whitby (University of Warwick) – tbc
Doug Lee (University of Nottingham) – ‘Heroic emulation and warfare in late
antiquity’
James Howard-Johnston (Oxford University) – ‘The Last Great War of
Antiquity: Contemporary Narratives’
Adrian Goldsworthy
All enquiries should be directed to Conor Whately
(c.c.whately AT warwick.ac.uk). More information can be found at the
website: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/dow/
of War in the Roman World from Caesar to Heraclius", to be held Saturday,
March 8th, at the University of Warwick, has been extended to this FRIDAY,
FEBRUARY 29th.
Although warfare in ancient Rome has long been a topic of interest, the
role of culture in the changing practices of war has not. The aim of this
conference is to consider some of the issues raised by Ted Lendon’s
Soldiers and Ghosts (2005), and in particular his discussion of the
relationship between the discourses of war and reality in the Roman world,
with special emphasis on the period from Caesar to Heraclius. The list of
speakers, with the titles of their papers, follows:
Ted Lendon (University of Virginia) - ‘What Roman Soldiers Thought About
Each Other: Patterns of Solidarity in Roman Military Inscriptions’
Harry Sidebottom (Oxford University) – ‘Battle in the Greek Novels: the
Ideological uses of fighting in popular fiction, or John Buchan meets
Heliodorus’
Hugh Elton (University of Trent, Canada) - ‘How to Write History’ (with
apologies to Lucian and Lendon
Boris Rankov (Royal Holloway, London) – ‘Milites, masks and mock-battles’
Simon James (University of Leicester) - ‘On Soldiering and War: the
verbal, the visual and the material in soldierly discourses’
Michael Whitby (University of Warwick) – tbc
Doug Lee (University of Nottingham) – ‘Heroic emulation and warfare in late
antiquity’
James Howard-Johnston (Oxford University) – ‘The Last Great War of
Antiquity: Contemporary Narratives’
Adrian Goldsworthy
All enquiries should be directed to Conor Whately
(c.c.whately AT warwick.ac.uk). More information can be found at the
website: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/dow/