Greek Epichoric Histories – Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 12-13thth May 2018

Project website: www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/Greek-Epichoric-Histories/<http://www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/Greek-Epichoric-Histories/>

All papers in the MBI Al Jaber Auditorium, Corpus Christi College

Saturday 12th May
9.00-9.40- Coffee and registration- MBI Al Jaber Auditorium Foyer
9.40-9.45: Dr Roger Brock (Leeds) ; Dr Samuel Gartland (Oxford) – Introduction
9.45-10.45 – Professor Catherine Morgan (Oxford)
On the margins of federalism: studying the Central Ionian archipelago

**Coffee Break** (Foyer)

11.15 – 12.00- Professor Jeremy McInerney (Penn)
The Lindos Chronicle, the Pride of Halikarnassos and Herakleides Kritikos: Narration and Epichoric History in the Hellenistic Age
12.00 – 12.45- Professor Rosalind Thomas (Oxford)
Pride of Place and the Greek polis and island histories: why write an epichoric history?

**Sandwich Lunch**(Foyer)

13.30-14.10 – Dr Naoise MacSweeney (Leicester) Myth and koinon: regional identity in Ionia
14.10-14.50 – Dr Thomas Russell (Oxford) Perspectives from the Bosphorus

**Coffee Break** (Foyer)

15.20-16.10 – Dr Danielle Kellogg (CUNY) The Attic Demes and Athenian Democracy
16.10-17.10 – Professor J.K.Davies (Liverpool) Location or lineage? The view from the temenos

**Refreshments** (Foyer)

17.40-18.40 – Professor Thomas Figueira (Rutgers) Reading Pindar’s Aiginetan Odes

18.40 ** Drinks Reception** (Rainolds Room/Handa Roof Terrace)
Sunday 13th May
9.30-10.15 – Dr Ben Raynor (Cambridge) Space and centrality at Macedonian Pella
10.15-11.00- Dr Aneurin Ellis-Evans (Oxford) The Cult of Athena Ilias and the Unity of the Troad
**Coffee Break** (Foyer)
11.30-12.15- Dr Maria Xanthou (Harvard/Leeds)
Chalcidian regionality between Sithonia and Pallene: from periphery to epichoric identity
12.15-13.00- Dr Irene Polinskaya (KCL)
On the Importance of Being Aigina: Constraints and Opportunities of Identity Politics in Ancient Greece

To book a place please email epichoric<epichoric@ccc.ox.ac.uk>@ccc.ox.ac.uk<epichoric@ccc.ox.ac.uk> by 4th May. The cost of registration is £20 per person, which will include refreshments throughout, and on the Saturday lunch and a drinks reception in the evening. The registration fee can be paid by cheque in advance (made out to Corpus Christi College) or cash on the day.


Dr. Samuel D. Gartland<https://www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/Dr-Sam-Gartland/>
Corpus Christi College and Christ Church, Oxford
Boiotia in the Fourth Century<https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/boiotia-in-the-fourth-century-bc>