Donnerstag, 11.10.

9:30 Coffee

9:50 Francesco Mari/Christian Wendt: Introduction

Panel 1: Making it happen: in rituals we trust?

10:00 Lynette Mitchell (Exeter): The politics of faithfulness: reciprocity and ritual in ancient Greek diplomacy
10:50 Sebastian Scharff (Mannheim): Treaties and trust. Oaths as an element of securing interstate agreements

11:40 Coffee and lunch break

Panel 2: Establishing and shaping good faith between communities

12:40 Francesca Gazzano (Genua): Bridging the gap. Using the past to shape good faith in Greek diplomatic speeches
13:30 Dominique Lenfant (Straßburg): The role of xenia in diplomatic relations between Greeks and Persians

14:20 Coffee break

Panel 3: Narratives of Greek-Persian diplomacy: authorial contexts

14:40 Pietro Vannicelli (Rom): Xerxes’ false friends: diplomacy and history during the Persian wars
15:30 Christopher Tuplin (Liverpool): Diplomatic mercenaries: treaties, truces and transactions in Xenophon’s Anabasis

Freitag, 12.10.

9:00 Coffee

Panel 4: Narratives of Greek-Persian diplomacy: close readings

9:20 Edith Foster (in absentia): Artaxerxes’ letter to the Spartans in Book 4 of Thucydides: contexts, style, and interpretation
9:50 Francesco Mari (Berlin): From king to King. Persian royal ideology and Macedonian propaganda in the exchange of letters between Darius III and Alexander (Arr. An. II 14)

10:40 Coffee break

Panel 5: The coming of Rome – the same old story?

11:00 Felix Maier (Würzburg): Perseus against Rome. A story of failed diplomacy?
11:50 Christian Wendt (Bochum): Etiquette and ambition. Partho-Roman diplomacy and the Roman Republic in crisis

12:40 Lunch break

13:30 Round table