CONF: Integrity and Corruption in Antiquity (UNISA)

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Below the programme for this year’s colloquium. Further information and
registration form at
http://www.unisa.ac.za/Default.asp?Cmd=ViewContent&ContentID=23613.

XIth  UNISA CLASSICS COLLOQUIUM: INTEGRITY & CORRUPTION IN ANTIQUITY
21 – 23 October 2010, Kopanong Hall, Theo van Wijk Building 10-24,
Muckleneuk Campus, Pretoria

PROGRAMME
Wednesday, October 20th
18:00 – 19:30   Reception, Brooklyn Guest Houses, 128 Murray Street,
Brooklyn

Thursday, October 21st
8:30 – 9:30     Clifford Ando [Chicago] Keynote address ‘Two
Revolutions in Government’
9:30 – 10:20    Denis Saddington [Wits], ‘Under the Centurion’s Boot:
Corruption and Coercion of Civilians by the Roman Army’
11:00 – 11:40   Maria Vamvouri Ruffy [Lausanne], ‘Physical and Social
Corruption in Plutarch’
11:40 – 12:30   Mark Kirby-Hirst [Unisa], ‘Living with Integrity:
Philostratus struggles against Imperial Corruption in the Vitae Sophistarum’
12:30 – 13:00   Szerdi Nagy [UKZN, Pietermaritzburg], ‘The Integrity of
Medea in Apollonius of Rhode’s Argonautica’
14:00 – 14:50   Martin Devecka [Yale], ‘Ambitione Corrupta: Sallust and
the Anthropology of Corruption’
14:50 – 15:40   William Rees [Oxford], ‘Absolute Power Corrupts
Absolutely? Cassius Dio and the Fall of the Republic’
15:40 – 16:10   Ilona Zager [Unisa], ‘Upsetting the Balance: Corrupt
Land Distribution Practices in the Late Roman Republic and the Attempted
Reforms of the Gracchi Brothers’
17 :30 – 18:30  Reception: Philadelphia Restaurant, TvW Building 3rd
level, Unisa

Friday, October 22nd
09:00 – 09:50   Gianluca Casa [Pisa], ‘Integrity in Choices’
09:50 – 10:40   Andrew Domanski [Wits], ‘Pleonexia in Plato’s Republic’
11:10 – 11:40   Daniel Malamis [Rhodes],‘Crimes of the Agora:
Corruption in Homer and Hesiod’
11:40 – 12:30   Johan Steenkamp [UNW], ‘Propertius 2.31: What the Poet
says He Saw’
13:30 – 14:20   Richard Evans [Cardiff], ‘Wishing for a Totalitarian
Regime: an ancient Sicilian Paradox regarding Integrity and Corruption’
14:20 – 15:10   Shushma Malik [Bristol], ‘Ultimate Corruption Manifest:
Nero as the Antichrist in Late Antiquity’
15:10 – 16:00   Obert Mlambo [Harare], ‘Force and fraud in politics in
the Roman Republic: A case for comparison with contemporary Zimbabwe?’
19:00 – 22:00   Conference Dinner: La Cantina, 259 Soutpansberg Road,
Rietondale

Saturday, October 23rd
8:30 – 9:20     Emily Greenwood [Yale], ‘Corruptible Logos: the
Politics of Speech and Silence in Greek Historiography’
9:20 – 10:10    Donato Loscalzo [Perugia], ‘Doro Fig-Sandaled (Cratin.
Fr. 70 Kassel-Austin and Aristoph. Eq. 529)’
10:40 – 11:30   Hannah J Swithinbank [St Andrews], ‘The Corruption of
the Constitution? Pompeius’ Eastern Commands and the changing Res Publica’
11:30 – 12:10   Florian Schaffenrath [Innsbruck], ‘Corruption and
Integrity in Cicero’s Philippics’
12:10 – 13:00   Round-table Discussion and Conference Conclusion

14:00 – 15:00   CASA Northern Branch meeting

Sunday, October 24rd
05:00 – 16:00   Excursion: Pilanesberg Game Reserve, North West Province