129th Annual Meeting (January 2-5, 2015): Inside the Minds of Ancient Writers: Investigating Polybius, Livy, Tacitus, and Procopius in the Historical Period from the Second Century BCE to the Seventh Century CE

Inside the Minds of Ancient Writers: Investigating Polybius, Livy, Tacitus, and Procopius in the Historical Period from the Second Century BCE to the Seventh Century CE

Association of Ancient Historians 1

Saturday, January 3, 2015: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Conference Room F (Sheraton New York, Lower Level)

Chair:

Rachael B. Goldman, College of New Jersey

Papers:

Polybius’s Animal House: Platonic Influence on Polybius’s Histories
William Burghart, University of Maryland at College Park

Roma Victrix: Livy and Roman Military Superiority over the Greek East
Nikolaus Overtoom, Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge

Cold War in Classical Rome: The Parthian Pretenders in Tacitus’s Annals
John Poirot, Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge

Procopius and the Audience for “Classicizing History” in Late Antiquity
Joseph Frechette, University of Maryland at College Park