A Traveller in an Antique Land: Travel and Traveling in the Ancient World
Conference Date: April 10, 2021
Conference Schedule:
9-9:30 – Setup and Welcome
9:30-10:10 – Professor William E. Mierse, University of Vermont
Sogdians, the Traveling Traders of Ancient Central Asia
10:10-10:40 – Emer O’Hanlon, Trinity College Dublin
“Forming a very good idea from the commonest print”: women’s travel literature and the Uffizi Venus
10:40-11:10 – Giulio Leghissa, University of Toronto
From North Africa to Egypt, with Love: an Instance of Husband-and-Wife Mobility in SB XIV 11979?
11:10-11:40 – Gabriella Demaria, University of Messina
Themistocles and Alcibiades in exile: two Athenian politicians compared
11:40-12:00 – Break
12:00-12:30 – Mikael Papadimitriou, New York University
Carrying Letters: The Symbiotic Relationship Between Traveling and Letter-writing in Late Antiquity
12:30-1:00 – Rafail Zoulis, Yale University
Procurators on the move: Travelling and imperial administrators in the High Empire
1:00-1:30 – Daniel Hanigan, University of Cambridge
Invisible Straits: Dionysius of Byzantium and the Mnemotechnics of Voyaging
1:30-2:00 – Break
2:00-2:30 – Jack Wheaton, Harvard University
(Be)Laboring Fame: Heracles, Odysseus, and A Journey to Go the Distance
2:30-3:00 – Roko Rumora, The University of Chicago
Egeria’s Sense of Stone: Description and Materiality in the Peregrinatio Egeriae
3:00-3:40 – Professor Gregory Nagy, Harvard University
A traveler’s perspective on local Greek traditions: the case of Pausanias