Conference Program

Friday, September 1 (Swallow Hall 101)

4:00 - 4:15 pm

Introductory Remarks

Raymond Marks & Marcello Mogetta (University of Missouri)

4:15 - 5:15 pm

Domitian’s “Augustan Topography”

Quotations from Augustan Monuments in Domitian’s Temple of Peace

Pier Luigi Tucci (Johns Hopkins University)

Domitian and the Augustan Altars

Megan Goldman-Petri (Santa Clara University)

5:30 - 6:30 pm

Keynote Speech

Assemblages, Appropriation, and Domitian's Political Art

Diane Atnally Conlin (University of Colorado, Boulder)

Saturday, September 2 (Swallow Hall 101)

9:00 - 10:00 am

Restoration of Morals I

Arachne and Lucretia: A Domitianic Perspective?

Emma Buckley (St. Andrews University)

Augustus in Domitian’s Forum

Margaret M. Andrews (Brown University)

10:15 - 11:15 am

Restoration of Morals II

An Ambiguous Attitude: Augustus’ and Domitian’s Policy towards Senators and Freedmen

Egidio Incelli (Sapienza University of Rome)

Parce, Pater: Martial’s “Augustan” Commentary on Domitianic Rome in Ep. 5.7

Virginia Closs (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

11:30 am - 12:30 pm

Portraits & Models I

How to be Augustan after Nero: Domitian’s Affiliation with the Augustan Legacy in Light of the Posthumous Critique of Nero

Lisa Cordes (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

Digni Triumphi: Victory through Merit in Domitianic Imagery

Joel Allen (Queens College, City University of New York)

12:30 - 2:00 pm

Lunch Break

2:00 - 3:00 pm

Portraits & Models II

Domitian and the Augustan Apollo: The Imitation of “Divine Power”

Aura Piccioni (Universität Regensburg)

Identifying Demi-Gods: Augustus, Domitian, and Hercules

Claire Stocks (Newcastle University)

3:15 - 4:15 pm

Statius

Revisiting Ovid’s Cave of Somnus in Statius’ Thebaid

Emma Scioli (University of Kansas)

Augustan to the End: Poetry, Politics and Memory in Statius Silvae book 4

Jean-Michel Hulls (Dulwich College)

4:30 - 5:30 pm

Silius Italicus

The Reintroduction of a Virgilian Theology in Silius’ Punica

Ludovico Pontiggia (Cambridge University)

Quid restat profugis: Silius’ Punica and Exile in Roman Epic

Clayton Schroer (University of Illinois)

7:00 pm

Conference Dinner