Programme

Thursday 14 April 2016
Time	Title	Presenter (s)
9.30-10.00	Conference registration
10.00-10.10	Welcome address
10.10-11.20	Session 1a The plousioi, wealth and community	Panel lead: Paul Christesen
	Leisure as a Consumption Good in Archaic and Classical Sparta	Professor Paul Christesen (Dartmouth)
	Were the Spartans the plousioi or the ptochoi of the Peloponnese?	Professor Alain Bresson (Chicago)
11.20-11.40	Break
11.40-12.25	Session 1b Capital and Labor as avenues to Wealth in Peloponnesian Communities	Dr Sarah Murray (Nebraska)
	Session discussion
12.25-13.10	Keynote lecture The Politics of Flashing: from wealth of material to discourse of luxury in a world full of gods	Professor Robin Osborne (Cambridge)
	Session discussion
13.10-14.30	Lunch
14.30-15.40	Session 2a Material Display and Piety	Panel lead: Georgia Alevra-Kokkorou
	The Peloponnese from Alexander to Aktion: are there signs of wealth and luxury?	Dr Selini Psoma (Athens)
	Donations and endowment for religious purposes	Dr Sophia Aneziri (Athens)
15.40-16.00	Break
16.00-17.30	Session 2b Marble: a luxury material in Early Greek architecture	Professor Georgia Alevra-Kokkorou (Athens)
	The dedication of luxurious textiles, clothing accessories and textile tools in Lakedaimonian sanctuaries	Dr Chrysanthi Gallou (Nottingham)
	Session discussion
17.30-18.30	Wine reception
19.30	Conference dinner

Friday 15 April 2016
Time	Title	Presenter (s)
9.00-10.10	Session 3a Luxury and wealth in Greek poetry and drama	Panel lead: Patrick Finglass
	The wealth of Alcman	Professor Patrick Finglass (Nottingham)
	Tragedy and the wealth of Troy	Dr Lyndsay Coo (Bristol)
10.10-10.30	Break
10.30-11.15	Session 3b Beautiful, Dirty, Rich Corinth in Greek poetry	Dr Thomas Coward (King's College, London)
	Session discussion
11.15-12.25	Session 4a Austerity, hubris and suptuary legislation	Panel lead: Hans van Wees
	Luxury, austerity and equality in Sparta and elsewhere	Professor Hans van Wees (UCL)
	Burial in pre-classical Argos and Corinth	Dr Alain Duplouy (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
12.25-13.45	Lunch
13.45-14.30	Session 4b Maintaining Social Control: The meaning and effect of austerity on the poor	Dr Lucia Cecchet (Mainz)
	Session discussion
14.30-14.45	Break
14.45-16.20	Session 5a Elite women and the production and display of wealth	Panel lead: Ellen Millender
	Aristotelian Anesis vs. Platonic Communalism: Fourth-Century Constructions of Spartan Women	Professor Ellen Millender (Reed)
	Lais, Wealthy Corinth and Nostalgia	Dr Kate Gilhuly (Wellesley)
16.20-16.40	Break
16.40-17.25	Session 5b Kyniska - Production and Use of Wealth	Dr Annalisa Paradiso (Basilicata) and Dr James Roy (Nottingham)
	Session discussion
17.25-18.00	Plenary Discussion and Conference Closure

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