22th June 2023

09:00–11:00
Warfare in the Greek World

IGNACIO JESUS ALVAREZ SORIA (Zaragoza, Spain): An Easy Victory. The Athenian Expedition in Aetolia in 426 BC

LENNART GILHAUS (Bonn, Germany): City assaults and unbounded violence – The destruction of Motye as a model for the capture of cities in the Greek World

OLE SEBASTIAN SIEMS (Berlin, Germany): The last journey of the Argyraspids – a case study on the political role of Alexander’s veterans in the early wars of the Diadochoi

Coffee Break

11:30–12:45
The Roman Civil Wars

CARLOS ESPÍ FORCÉN (Murcia, Spain): Caesar’s Elephant: A Powerful Icon in Time of War

DAVID HACK (Austria, Vienna): A Land of Confusion? – Irregular and personal power versus state control of military forces in Archaic Etruria and Rome.

Lunch Break

14:00–15:00
Keynote Lecture
FERNANDO ECHEVERRÍA (Madrid, Spain): Translations, analogies and metaphors. Interpreting ancient warfare in the 21st century

Parallel Sessions:

15:15–17:00
Women and Warfare

MARCO ALMANSA FERNANDEZ (Santander, Spain): Mulierum Agmen. Women and Roman Army: Making the Invisible Visible

PEDRO D. CONESA NAVARRO (Madrid, Spain) / Carlos Espí Forcén (Murcia- Spain): The Fulvia-Victory Bust: A Female Image for the Wars of the Second Triumvirate

AMANTHEE PUSSEPITIYA (Peradeniya, Sri Lanka): “Women’s Invisibility” in Military History. A case-by-case analysis of reasons for the female erasure from the historical narrative

15:15–17:00
Greeks and the Others

TATIANA TERESHCHENKO (Moscow, Russia): Military Theme in the Images of the Others in Greek Vase Painting of the Middle of the 6th–Early 4th Centuries BC

DANIEL EMMELIUS (Essen, Germany): Insane undertakings? Cambyses and the crossing of deserts with armies in Herodotus

FLORIAN FEIL (Trier, Germany): Scythian lancers and their influence on fourth-century Persian, Thracian and Macedonian cavalry

Coffee Break

17:30–19:15
Rome and the Others

PETER FREIHERR VON DANCKELMAN (Oldenburg, Germany): Steppe Warfare and a Palmyrene Militia?

JULIAN GIESEKE (Bielefeld, Germany): At the emperor’s service: The armies of dependent states and peoples as a military factor in the early imperial period

ALASTAIR LUMSDEN (St Andrews, Scotland): What it means to be a Man: Elite Masculinity and Military Development in Cisalpine Gaul c.400–50.

17:30–19:15
Home and Away in Classical Greece

PHYLLIS BRIGHOUSE (Liverpool, England): War and Greek old comedy: A dialogue between past and present in Aristophanes´ knights

IOANNIS MITSIOS (Athens, Greece): Sacrificial virgins in Athens and Boeotia: A comparative study

MICHAEL ZERJADTKE (Hamburg, Germany): Disarming and rearming citizens: The social and political relevance of weapon possession in classical Greece

23th June 2023

09:00–10:45
Assassinations: The Greek World

FIONA PHILLIPS (Oxford, England): Carian Conflict! The failed assassination of Mausolus

JULIUS GUTHRIE (Exeter, England): The assassination of Dion

ÖMER GÜNGÖRMÜŞ (Efeler, Turkey): Sealing the fate of a dynasty: Assassinations of the late Argead royals of Macedonia

Coffee Break

11:15–13:00
Assassinations: The Roman World

ALEXANDER THEIN (Dublin, Ireland): Political assassinations in the Sullan period: c. 90–70 BC

JURRIAAN GOUW (Edinburgh, Scotland): The role of the Praetorian Guard in the assassination of Domitian and the rise of Trajan

SILVIO ROGGO (Frankfurt, Germany): An unsuccessful assassin’s career in Constantinople

Lunch Break

Parallel Sessions:

16:00–18:20
The Roman Imperial Army

JOANNA BALL (Liverpool, England): Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself? Combat Disintegration and the Roman Army

ANNA BUSETTO (Milan/Padua, Italy): (Not so) elementary, my dear Arrian! Tackling a locus desperatus in Arrian’s Tactica

HANNA FRITZ (Innsbruck, Austria): Grain supply in Roman frontier zones: a comparison of the Vindolanda tablets and the Bu Njem Ostraca

KORNEEL VAN LOMMEL (Antwerp/Leuven, Belgium): How to seize power? Political violence during the Year of the Five Emperors

16:00–18:20
Greek Tactics

NATASHA BERSHADSKY (Bonn/Harvard, Germany/USA): The death of Patroklos and the beginning of the phalanx

RAIMON GRAELLS I FABREGAT (Alicante, Spain) / Alessandro Pace (Fribourg, Switzerland): Weapons and Hoplites. A Critical Discourse from Vases, Texts, and Realia

ISABELL TSCHEINIG (Graz, Austria): Social aspects of the lightly armed troops in the classical period
GEORGIOS TSIAKALOS (Athens/Crete, Greece): Inglorious Warriors: the Aetolian elite fighters and their controversial tactics.

24th June 2023

09:00–10:45
The Punic Wars

BRYANT AHRENBERG (Auckland, New Zealand): Ship-Binding in Antiquity: The Practice, Purpose, and Possibilities

FABRIZIO BIGLINO (Turino, Italy): Rethinking the causes of the Third Punic War

GABRIELE BRUSA (Pavia, Italy): Marcellus at Nola and the employment of the “long spears of the naval soldiers”: trying to make sense of Plutarch, Marcellus, 12.2

Coffee Break

11:15–13:00
Warfare in the Roman Republic

MARIAN HELM (Münster, Germany): Creating “natural fighters”: Age and social expectations in the Roman republican army

SALLY MUBARAK (St Andrews, Scotland): The Plot Thickens: Repatriation and Burial of War-dead in the Mid-Republican Period

THERESIA RAUM (Hamburg, Germany): A matter of time – The logics of military violence in the Roman republic

Lunch Break

Parallel Sessions:

14:30–16:00
Classical Sparta

MARTINE DIEPENBROEK (Johannesburg, South Africa): The Spartan scytale: A simple stick or a useful cryptographic device? Misinterpretations of the use of the scytale as a cryptographic device in ancient Sparta in the 5th and 4th centuries BCE

IMOGEN HERRAD (Bonn, Germany): Plataiai 479: “The others obeyed, but not Amompharetos” (Hdt. 9.53.2) A case study of Spartan disobedience

HAN PEDAZZINI (Torino, Italy): Alone in command. The legality problem of Spartan military prostasia after the King's Peace

14:30–16:00
Late Antiquity I

ŁUKASZ RÓŻYCKI (Poznan, Poland): Roman night combat in VI century – theory and practice

CHRISTOPHER IAN LILLINGTON-MARTIN (Barcelona, Spain): Narratives of the Battle of Dara, 530

DOUGLAS WHALIN (Vienna, Austria): Roman strategy in the second Roman-Arab war (AD 654—659)

Coffee Break

16:30–18:00
Late Antiquity II

WINFRIED KUMPITSCH (Graz, Austria): The cultic role of the officers in the Christian Roman army

CHRISTIAN MICHEL (Essen, Germany): Better men? Court eunuchs as generals in the Eastern Roman Empire

JULIUS SCHWARZ (Bonn, Germany): “Reading” the late Roman army