Thursday 15 September 2016

The programme is provisional and may be subject to change.
Time	Title
9.00 – 9.30	Registration and coffee
9.30 – 11.00	Flavian war and autocracy Alice König (St Andrews) Different perspectives: War and Autocracy in Flavian Prose Doug Lee (Nottingham) Flavian civil war in context: issues of allegiance and identity
11.00 – 11.15	Coffee break
11.15 – 12.45	Flavian autocracy Andreas Kropp (Nottingham) The “Flavian” coinage of king Herod Agrippa II (AD 49 to 97) Sam Hayes (Exeter) Dominus et heros: Martial's epic Domitian Coen Willem Schuurmans Stekhoven (St. Andrews) Mediating Power: Martial and the Emperor Domitian
12.45 – 1.30	Lunch
1.30 – 3.00	Statius Patrick Finglass (Nottingham) Statius and Stesichorus Tommaso Spinelli (St. Andrews) War and Kingship in Statius' Thebaid: The Disruption of the Herculean Paradigm Stefano Briguglio (Pisa) Tyrants and lovers: Creon, Oedipus and the curse of autocracy in Statius' Thebaid
3.00 – 3.30	Coffee break
3.30 – 5.00	Endings and new beginnings Helen Lovatt (Nottingham) Trauma and reconciliation in Valerius Flaccus Angeliki Roumpou (Nottingham) Carthago delenda est? Cosmic War and the Empire in Silius Italicus 17 Danielle Frisby (King's College, London) and Will Leveritt (Nottingham) The Flavian Triumph: Negotiating Specificity and Continuum
5.00 – 6.00	Coffee break and discussion
6.00	End

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