143rd Annual Meeting, 5-8 January 2012, Philadelphia PA
Panel Sponsored by the Women’s Classical Caucus
Women and War
Karen Bassi and Chris Ann Matteo, Organizers
Friday 6 January 2012, 11:15 a.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Location: to be announced
Women have been both the putative causes of war and its most constant victims. This panel explores the relationship between women and the causes, contingencies, and consequences of military conflict in the Greco-Roman world and its literary and material culture.
- Danielle La Londe, Haverford College
Tarpeia’s Peace Treaty in Propertius 4.4 (20 min) - Karen Acton, University of Arizona
Imperial Women and the Civil War: Poppaea, Berenice, and Triaria in Tacitus’ Histories (20 min) - Marian W. Makins, University of Pennsylvania
From Widows to Witches: Women and Aftermath in Roman Imperial Literature (20 min) - Respondent: Jacqueline Fabre-Serris, Université de Lille 3 and Editor, EuGeStA (20 min)
