Events
‘Praising Constantine’
Friday, 29th April 2016,
Swallowgate 11, School of Classics, St Andrews, UK.
A conference sponsored by the School of Classics, University of St Andrews and the Department of Classics and Ancient History, Liverpool University.
Programme
9.30am | Welcome (Bruce Gibson and Roger Rees) |
9.45am | Michael Hanaghan (Exeter) ‘When you gaze into Constantine, Constantine gazes back’ |
10.30am | Alessandro Marenesi (Nijmegen) ‘Praising Constantine or Shaping Discontinuity? Role and Functions of Some Constantinian Panegyrics’ |
11.15am | Coffee in the library |
11.45am | Linda Jones Hall (St. Mary’s College of Maryland) “Counting by Fives”; The Vicennalia Poems of Optatianus Porfyrius and the Panegyric of Nazarius to Constantine (321 A.D.) |
12.30pm | Lunch in the library |
1.30pm | David Greenwood (Aberdeen) ‘Constantine and Eusebius: Panegyric, Constructio and Theophany’ |
2.15pm | Christian Djurslev (Exeter) ‘Using Alexander the Great to praise Constantine: the “Cyrus and Alexander”- digression in Eusebius’ Life of Constantine (1.7-9)’ |
3.00pm | Tea in the library |
3.30pm | Milena Raimondi (Milan) ‘Pais and basileus: praising Constantine in Athens’ |
4.15pm | Alan Ross (Southampton) ‘Posthumous panegyric? Constantine in the orations of Themistius, Libanius, and Julian’ |
Organisers: Bruce Gibson (Liverpool) and Roger Rees (St Andrews).