A Conference on

Second to one: Tiberius and Tiberian Culture

Tuesday, March 6

“Velleius Paterculus, Literary Critic and Generic Innovator”

Adriana Vazquez

“Mr. Caesar Goes to Rome: Velleius Paterculus' Tiberius as Private Citizen and Republican Princeps”

Janice So

“Prescience and Power: The Divination of Tiberius and Tiberian Culture”

JB Young

“Cheating Death: Cn. Piso and Tiberian Control of Funerary Commemoration”

Morgan Palmer

“Exercendae leges sunt: Subversive Literature and Censorship in the Tiberian Administration”

Michael Paravati

Thursday, March 8

“Valerius Maxim Us! : The Sententiae of Facta et Dicta Memorabilia”

Martin Halprin

“Industria and the Early Imperial Period”

Josh Hartman

“Staring at the Soul: Tiberian Physiognomy from Paterculus to Dio”

Brandon Jones

“Phaedrus and the Anxiety of Change”

Elin Rummel

Respondent: Theodore Mommsen