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Workshop

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USIAS Workshop

Defeat and the West: Interpretations of the Defeat of Athens in 404 BCE.

At this workshop, participants will discuss the legacy of Athens’ defeat in the Peloponnesian War. The initial papers and the keynote speaker will explore the narratives of Thucydides and Xenophon, who lived at the time of the events. After this, the participants will discuss further ancient responses to this defeat, focusing on Athens itself, and then on Republican and Imperial Rome.

The second day of the workshop will examine modern responses to the defeat of Athens. Participants will discuss the resonances of this event in modern democracies generally, and in modern France and Germany in particular.

Defeat and the West:Interpretations of the Defeat

of Athens in 404 BCE

May 13 and 14, 2016MISHA - Salle des Conférences5 allée du Général Rouvillois, Strasbourg

Organisateur : Edith Foster Contact : edithmfoster@gmail.com

For more information: www.usias.fr

Program

Friday, May 13

8:30 Introduction Dr. Rifka Weehuizen, Managing Director, USIAS

9:00 Panel 1: Defeat Defi ned • Athènes vaincue: l’impensable, l’impossible défaite du plus fort selon Thucydide Edmond Lévy - University of Strasbourg

• The Psychology of Defeat and the Invention of Historiography Neville Morley - University of Bristol

10:30 Break

11:00 Panel 2: The Defeat of Athens and the Fourth Century • Democracy and War in Ancient Athens David Pritchard - University of Queensland

• La symphora de la cité. La défaite d’Athènes (404 av. J.-C.) dans les orateurs attiques Cinzia Bearzot - University of Milan

13:30 Lunch

15:00 Panel 3: The Defeat of Athens and Republican Rome • Rome, une « cité grecque » prise par les Hyperboréens Michel Humm - University of Strasbourg

• Rome Redeems Athens: Livy on the Peloponnesian War and the Conquest of Greece David Levene - New York University

16:30 Break

17:30 Keynote Address Thucydides, Sicily, and the Defeat of Athens Tim Rood - University of Oxford

Saturday, May 14

9:00 Panel 4: The Defeat of Athens and Greek Writers of Imperial Rome • “Presque invaincue…”: stratégies rhétoriques autour de la défaite d’Athènes dans l’œuvre d’Aelius Aristide Estelle Oudot - University of Bourgogne

• Echo der Katastrophe: Die Spuren der Niederlage Athens in Flavius Josephus’ Bellum Judaicum Vassiliki Pothou - Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

10:30 Break

11:00 Panel 5: The Defeat of Athens and Modern Democracies • “That famous and fatal war ... which ... terminated in the ruin of the Athenian commonwealth”: Athens Niederlage in den Federalist Papers Hans Kopp - Freie Universität Berlin

• A Struggle for Democracy: Thucydides in Germany after World War I Oliver Schelske - University of Munich

• Polish Refl ections: The Reception of the Defeat of Athens in the Works of Goddfryd Ernst Groddeck and Joachim Lelewel. Maciej Junkiert - Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznań

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Panel 6: The Defeat of Athens and Modern German Scholarship • Spree-Athen nach dem Untergang: Eduard Meyer zur Parallelität von Geschichte Christian Wendt - Freie Universität Berlin

• A commotion at the heart of Greek culture: Jacob Burckhardt on the defeat of Athens in the Peloponnesian War Tobias Joho - University of Bern

15:30 Break

16:00 Panel 7: The Defeat of Athens and Modern France • D’Athènes à Vichy : défaite militaire et faillite démocratique selon Les Oligarques de Jules Isaac Dominique Lenfant - University of Strasbourg)

• Lectures françaises de Thucydide: Jacqueline de Romilly, Nicole Loraux et Cornelius Castoriadis Christophe Pébarthe - University of Bordeaux Montaigne

Concluding Remarks: Edith Foster - USIAS

18:00 Post-workshop discussion

Ancient Studies and the Nations: Maintaining Connections, Strengthening Identities Introducer: Maria Teresa Schettino President, Collegium Rhenatus Beatus