The New Athenian Empire
26 and 27 June 2023
Organised by Eric Driscoll, Leah Lazar and Michael Loy
Ioannou Centre for Classical & Byzantine Studies
66, St. Giles’, Oxford OX1 3LU
The conference will be held in the lecture theatre of the Ioannou Centre, Oxford, with remote participation also possible.
All are welcome, whether in person or online. Please register at this link: https://forms.gle/pyFHenMdpRVoPb5Y8
Please address any queries to: thenewathenianempire@gmail.com
Generously supported by the Fell Fund, University of Oxford; the Faculty of Classics Board and Craven Committee, University of Oxford; The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies; the Leverhulme Trust; and the Faculty of Classics, Harvard University.
The organisation of the conference was undertaken with support from the CHANGE Project, with funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 865680), and with support from the Leverhulme Trust, ECF 2022-015.
Day 1 – Monday 26 June
0930 Welcome / opening remarks | Leah Lazar (Oxford), Eric Driscoll (Harvard), Michael Loy (Cambridge)
950 Writing the history of the Athenian empire: regionalism, agency and change | Christy Constantakopoulou (Birkbeck/ National Hellenic Research Foundation)
1030 What is the Athenian Empire? Ancient perspectives and modern definitions under scrutiny | Stefanie Däne (University of Göttingen)
1110 Coffee
1140 The late Archaic prehistory of the Athenian Empire | David Teegarden (SUNY Buffalo)
1220 Coins, mines and tribute: the growth of Athenian coinage in the period of imperial expansion | Andrew Meadows (Oxford)
1300 Lunch
1400 Athenian Imperialism and Economic Growth in the Northern Sporades and Crete Brice Erickson (UC Santa Barbara)
1440 Archaeology and the Athenian Empire — Ionia revisited | Anja Slawisch (Edinburgh)
1520 Coffee
1550 Allies in revolt | Robin Osborne (Cambridge)
1630 Classical Thasos seen from its chronological lists | Patrice Hamon (Sorbonne Université)
1710 General discussion
1730 Reception
Day 2 – Tuesday 27 June
0900 Athens, Evagoras I, and their imperialistic policies | Beatrice Pestarino (Haifa)
0940 Coinage in the Athenian empire: an entangled relationship | Koray Konuk (French National Centre for Scientific Research)
1020 Coffee
1050 Sounding the Athenian empire: rethinking musical imagery in the Bacchae | Yanxiao He (Chicago)
1130 The afterlives of Athenian imperialism in the early fourth-century Aegean | Polly Low (Durham)
1210 Fiscal regimes of Athenian settlements in the Classical and Hellenistic periods | Milan Melocco (Sorbonne Université)
1250 Final remarks
1310 Lunch