Greek History & the Historical Imagination:
A Conference in Honor of Charles W. Fornara

Brown University, Mencoff Hall (68 Waterman St., Providence)

Friday, Oct. 13, 2006

2:00-2:30 Mark Toher, Welcome and Introduction

First Session - Chair: John Bodel

2:30-3:15 Alan Boegehold, Harmodios and Aristogeiton

3:15-4:00 Loren J. Samons, Some Aspects of the Career of Kimon of Athens

4:00-4:30 Coffee/Tea Break

4:30-5:15 Michael Flower, Athenian Religion and the Peloponnesian War

5:15-6:00 Alden Mosshammer, Proleptic Olympiads

6:30-9:30 Dinner, Faculty Club

Saturday, Oct. 14, 2006

Second Session - Chair: Michael Putnam

9:00-9:45 Adele Scafuro, Were the Athenian Law Courts Self-Sufficient?

9:45-10:30 David Phillips, The Case for Agoratus’ Guilt

10:30-11:00 Coffee/Tea Break

11:00-11:45 Martin Ostwald, Tychê in Herodotus

11:45-12:30 Deborah Boedeker, Accentuating the Negative: Blame in the Persian War Traditions

12:30-2:00 Lunch

Third Session - Chair: David Konstan

2:00-2:45 Kurt Raaflaub, Ulterior motives in classical Greek historiography: what exactly, and why?

2:45-3:30 John Marincola, Nothing to do with Aristotle? Polybius, Phylarchus and ‘Tragic History’

3:30-4:00 Coffee/Tea Break

4:00-4:45 Carol King, The Divine Element in Arrian’s Anabasis

4:45-5:30 Mortimer Chambers, Lorenzo Valla’s Translation of Thucydides

5:30-6:00 Comments by Charles Fornara

7:30 Dinner