SYMPOSIUM LAUREOTICUM

July 16-24, 2006

PROGRAMME OF SESSIONS

Day
1

Monday, July 17

Session
1:                  09.30 – 11.30  Dirk Obbink

                                  Might
Makes Rite: Mythical Past and Ritual Present in Pindar (fr. 169a nomos pant­­ōn
basileus)

             11.30 – 12.00   Coffee Break

Session
2:                  12.00 – 14.00  Morris Silver

                                  From
Solon to Socrates: The Role of International Trade in the Transformation of
Attica’s Agricultural Organization.

             14.00
           Light Lunch

Session 3:                  18.00
– 20.00  Tracey Rihll

                                  Excavating Ancient Laurion

Day 2

Tuesday,
July 18

Session
1:                  09.30 – 11.30  Apostolos Pierris

                                  Themistoclean
Power – Building and Periclean Passive Strategy: The Doing and Undoing of
Hegemonic Athens.

             11.30 – 12.00   Coffee Break

Session
2:                  12.00 – 14.00  Kurt Raaflaub

                                  The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Athens and the
Persian Empire 

             14.00            Light Lunch

Session
3:                  18.00 – 20.00  Edward Cohen

                                  Freedom
of Contract at Athens: Mind, Might, Money and Institutional Economics 

Day 3

Wednesday,
July 19

Session
1:                  09.30 – 11.30  Charles Fornara 

                                  The
Dates of the Kallias Decrees.

             11.30 – 12.00   Coffee Break

Session
2:                  12.00 – 14.00  Thomas Figueira

                                  Community Wealth and Military Might in
Periclean Athens..

             14.00            Light Lunch. 

Session
3:                  15.30 – 17.30  Mark Munn

                                  Arming the Thetes: A Transgressive Use of
Money?

             17.30 – 18.00   Coffee Break

Session
4:                  18.00 – 20.00  John Davies 

                                  Wealth and the Power of Wealth Revisited. 

Day
4

Thursday, July 20

Session
1:                  09.30 – 11.30  Simon Hornblower 

                                  The Sicilian Expedition and the “Fall” of
Athens.

             11.30 – 12.00   Coffee Break

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Session
2:                  12.00 – 14.00  Robert Wallace

                                  Thucydides: Judgements and Facts.

             14.00            Light Lunch

Session
3:                  18.00 – 20.00  Kathryn
Morgan

                                  Public Affair: The Space of Politics between
Thucydides and Plato.

Day 5

Friday, July 21

Session
1:                  09.30 – 11.30  Alan
Shapiro 

                                  Theseus
and Democratic Family Values.

             11.30 – 12.00   Coffee Break

Session
2:                  12.00 – 14.00  Bernhard Zimmermann

                                  Tackling the Greatest Monsters: Might and
Power on the Comic Scene of the 5th Century B.C.

             14.00            Light Lunch

Session
3:                  18.00 – 20.00  Richard Neer

                                  Tragedies of Beholding: Alkamenes’ Prokne
and Itys Group.

Day
6

Saturday, July 22

Session
1:                  9.30 – 11.30    Peter Rhodes

                                  Athens in the Fourth Century: What – If
Anything – Went Wrong?

             11.30 – 12.00   Coffee Break

Session
2:                  12.00 – 14.00  Concluding Discussion.

             14.00            Light Lunch.