Allies of Troy: The Concept of the Ally in Ancient Greek Culture
Please find below the schedule for our conference that will take place at the Institute of Classical Studies 12th-13th December 2023.
You can attend in person in London, or virtually.
To book a place, please follow this link.
12th December
9.30 Welcome – Fiona McHardy and Marco Fantuzzi
10.00 paper 1 – Deborah Gera – Weighing the Fates of Memnon and Achilles
10.40 paper 2 – David Braund – Old Allies: Amazons at Troy before and after Homer
11.40 paper 3 – Abigail Spanner – Penthesileia, the Successful or Unsuccessful Ally
12.20 paper 4 – Martina Delucchi – Ambiguous Alliances: the Telephids and the Trojan War
2.20 paper 5 – Emily Austin – Sarpedon and Glaukos Revisited: an Ally’s Perspective
3.00 paper 6 – Adrian Kelly – The Allies of the Trojans as ‘epikouroi’: a contrast with the coalition of the sons of Atreus at Troy
3.40 paper 7 – Richard Janko – Allies turned enemies: the role of epikouroi in (the collapse of) the Bronze Age
4.50 paper 8 – Casey Dué Hackney – Forever Short-lived: Laments for the Allies of Troy within the Poetics of the Iliad
5.30 paper 9 – Ronald Blankenborg – The Brink of War: The Outlook on Alliance in Homeric Narrative
6.10 paper 10 – Jonathan Burgess – ad hoc Alliances in the Odyssey
13th December
10.00 paper 11 – Hans van Wees – The Growth of the Trojan Alliance: the Iliad and Lydian expansion
10.40 paper 12 – Patrick Finglass – Allies Real and Metaphorical in Sappho and Alcaeus
11.40 paper 13 – Robin Osborne – The Visibility and Invisibility of the Ally
12.20 paper 14 – Maria Noussia – Can Philosophy Be of Value to Interstate Alliances?
2.20 paper 15 – Marco Fantuzzi – The Best of the Allies: Homer’s Sarpedon and tragic ‘Rhesus’ vs untrusting Hector
3.00 paper 16 – Fiona McHardy – Allies in Greek Tragedy: Between Friends and Enemies
3.40 paper 17 – Alessandra Abbattista – Between oikos and polis: a Tragic Definition of philia
4.50 paper 18 – Richard Martin – Wingman and Singer: Models of ally-ship in Pindaric epinikia
5.30 paper 19 – Antonio Mura – “μοι πιστὰ παρ’ ὑμῶν γνώμης ἔσθ’ ὅρκια”: Parabatic Alliances in Aristophanes
6.10 paper 20 – Trevor Dean – Medieval Memnon: further transformation
6.50 closing remarks and discussion