The Center for Ancient Studies' Symposium 2009

The Center for Ancient Studies at the University of Pennsylvania will sponsor a one-day symposium on “Celebrations of Continuity and Change: Triumph and Spectacle in the Ancient World” to take place all day Friday 6 March 2009, beginning at 9:30 a.m. All lectures are open to the public and will take place in the Rainey Auditorium at the University of Pennsylvania Museum.

The keynote speaker will be Mary Beard, Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge and fellow of Newnham College. She is Classics editor of the Times Literary Supplement and author of the book The Roman Triumph, published in 2007. Other speakers include Kostas Zachos (Greek Archaeological Service), Mehmet Ali Ataç (Bryn Mawr College), David O’Connor (Institute of Fine Arts, NYU), Lillian Armstrong (Wellesley College), Larry Silver (Penn), and Julian Raby (Smithsonian Institution). Lecture topics will range from ancient Egypt through the Ottoman Empire.

The symposium is timed to accompany the exhibit “Grand Scale: Monumental Prints in the Age of Dürer and Titian,” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from 31 January through 26 April 2009. Curated by Penn History of Art Professor Larry Silver, the exhibit features large-scale and multiple-plate prints, several of which recreate Roman triumphs, while others expand upon the theme of the triumph to celebrate more exotic subjects.

CELEBRATIONS OF CONTINUITY AND CHANGE: TRIUMPH AND SPECTACLE IN THE ANCIENT WORLD
The Center for Ancient Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Annual Symposium
Rainey Auditorium, University of Pennsylvania Museum

PROGRAM

Friday, 6 March 2009

9:30 COFFEE IN THE MOSAIC GALLERY

10:00 MORNING SESSION

Robert Ousterhout (Director, Center for Ancient Studies)
Welcome and Introduction

Larry Silver (University of Pennsylvania)
Holy and Roman—Imperial Paper Triumphs for Maximilian I

Lilian Armstrong (Wellesley College)
Triumph Imagery in North Italian Renaissance Manuscripts and Woodcuts

Julian Raby (Smithsonian Institution)
La Cavalcata di Solimano: the Ottomans and the Equestrian Procession

12:30 -1:30 LUNCH BREAK

1:30 AFTERNOON SESSION

Mary Beard (Cambridge University)
The Roman Triumph: Problems of Continuity and Change

Konstantinos L. Zachos (Archaeological Museum of Ioannina, Greece)
The Triumph of Augustus on the Actium Monument at Nicopolis

3:00-3:15 COFFEE IN THE MOSAIC GALLERY

3:15 Mehmet Ali Ataç (Bryn Mawr College)
The Changing Approaches to History in the Neo-Assyrian Palace Reliefs

David O’Connor (Institute of Fine Arts-NYU)
Preserving the Cosmos: The Ancient Egyptian "Triumph" from Narmer
to Augustus

Harriet Flower (Princeton University)
Commentary

DISCUSSION

5:00 RECEPTION IN THE MOSAIC GALLERY