East and West: A Conference in Honor of Glen W. Bowersock on the occasion of his retirement from the faculty of the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study

Friday 7 April 2006
Princeton University, Princeton NJ
9 AM to 6 PM - 010 East Pyne

Facilitated by Harriet I. Flower, Princeton University, and T. Corey Brennan, Rutgers University

Sponsored by the Princeton University Department of Classics,
Department of History, Humanities Council, Program in the Ancient World, and Program in Hellenic Studies with presentations by:

Walter Ameling, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
History and ethnography in Agatharchides

Miriam T. Griffin, Somerville College, Oxford
Iure plectimur: the Roman critique of Roman imperialism

Andrea Giardina, University of Rome La Sapienza
Metis in Rome: a Greek dream of Sulla

Robert J. Penella, Fordham University
Himerius' orations to his students

Christopher P. Jones, Harvard University
The survival of the Sophists

Peter Brown, Princeton University
Alms and the afterlife: a Manichaean view of an early Christian practice

Maurice Sartre, Université de Tours, membre de l'Institut Universitaire de France

De Pétra à Jerusalem .. et retour!

Glen Bowersock is by any reckoning one of the most distinguished
historians of the ancient world. He is the author of some 300 articles and books on Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern history, as well as the classical tradition in western literature. Some of his influential books include Augustus and the Greek World (Oxford, 1965); Greek Sophists in the Roman Empire (Oxford, 1969); Roman Arabia (Harvard, 1983); Hellenism in Late Antiquity [Jerome Lectures] (Michigan and Cambridge U.P., 1990); Fiction as History, from Nero to Julian [Sather Classical Lectures] (University of California Press, 1994); Martyrdom and Rome [Wiles Lectures] (Cambridge University Press, 1995); and the encyclopedic Late Antiquity. A guide to the Postclassical World, ed. with P. Brown and O. Grabar (Harvard, 1999). Educated at Harvard (AB 1957) and, after winning a Rhodes Scholarship, Oxford (BA 1959, MA, DPhil. 1962), Glen Bowersock then taught at Harvard University in the Departments of History and the Classics from 1962-1980 before receiving an appointment to the Institute for Advanced Study faculty in 1980.

For free registration, please email Harriet I. Flower, Princeton University, or T. Corey Brennan, Rutgers University.

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http://www.princeton.edu/main/visiting/travel/

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http://www.princeton.edu/%7Epumap/

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http://www.campustravel.com/university/princeton/visit2.htm

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