Conceptualizing Past, Present and Future
Ninth Symposium of the Melammu Project
University of Helsinki
18-20 May 2015
University of Tartu
22-24 May 2015
Overal organisation and concept: Robert Rollinger, Sebastian Fink
Helsinki organisation: Raija Mattila, Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila, Robert Rollinger
Tartu organisation: Thomas Kämmerer, Mait Kõiv, Urmas Nõmmik, Ivo Volt
Proceedings of the Ninth Symposium
of the Melammu Project
Edited by Sebastian Fink and Robert Rollinger
Table of contents
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Symposium Program |
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Sunday, May 17
Arrival Day, Helsinki
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Monday, May 18
Venue: The Festive Hall of the Language Centre, Fabianinkatu 26
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Session 1: Conceptualizing the Past: Narratives (Elena Devecchi, John Marincola) |
| 09:00-09:15 |
Introduction |
| 09:15-09:45 |
Carolyn Dewald (Classics, Bard College): How Many Miles to Babylon? Herodotus Narrates the Enormous Eastern City |
| 09:45-10:15 |
Mario Fales (Assyriology, University of Udine): Narrativity in Neo-Assyrian Royal Inscriptions: The Worthy King and His Ignoble Enemies - A Further View |
| 10:15-10:30 |
Break |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Emily Baragwanath (Classics, UNC Chapel Hill): Conceptualizing the Past in Xenophon's Hellenica |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Jared Miller (Ancient Near Eastern and Ancient Anatolian Studies, University of Munich): Toward a Typology of Quoted Speech in Hittite Historiographic Narrative |
| 11:30-11:45 |
Response |
| 11:45-12:15 |
Discussion |
| 12:15-14:00 |
Lunch |
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Session 2: Structuring the Past: Chronology, Genealogy, Ancestors (Nino Luraghi, Giovanni-Battista Lanfranchi) |
| 14:00-14:15 |
Introduction |
| 14:15-14:45 |
Astrid Möller (Ancient History, University of Freiburg): Chronology and Lists: On the Incompatibility of Oral Tradition and Written Record |
| 14:45-15:15 |
Shigeo Yamada (Assyriology, University of Tsukuba): Neo-Assyrian Eponym Lists and Eponym Chronicles: Stylistic Variants and Their Historical-Ideological Background |
| 15:15-15:45 |
Simonetta Ponchia (Assyriology, University of Verona): Chronicles and their Value for Mesopotamian Chronology |
| 15:45-16:00 |
Break |
| 16:00-16:30 |
Pietro Vannicelli (Classics, Sapienza Rome): Greek Heroes in Achaemenid Anatolia |
| 16:30-16:45 |
Response |
| 16:45-17:15 |
Discussion |
| 17:15-17:30 |
Break |
| 17:30-18:15 |
Keynote I Max Otte (Business Administration, University of Applied Sciences Worms / Corporate Leadership and Entrepreneurship, University of Graz): Historiography and Narrative as Universal-Human Phenomena: An Amateur's Interjection |
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Tuesday, May 19
Venue: The Festive Hall of the Language Centre, Fabianinkatu 26
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Session 3: Past as an Argument: Past and Present in Dialogue (Marc van de Mieroop, Kai Ruffing) |
| 09:00-09:15 |
Introduction |
| 09:15-09:45 |
John Dillery (Classics, University of Virginia): Past and Present in Greek Historiography |
| 09:45-10:15 |
Hannes Galter (Assyriology, University of Graz): The "Heavy" Name Adadnarari: History and Politics in Assyria |
| 10:15-10:30 |
Break |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Manuel Karl Pohl (Ancient History, University of Innsbruck): The (Re)Construction of the Roman Past in Late Republican Rome |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Seth Richardson (Assyriology, University of Chicago): Re-forging 'Sumerian' Kingship in Fin-de-Siècle Babylon |
| 11:30-11:45 |
Response |
| 11:45-12:15 |
Discussion |
| 12:15-13:30 |
Lunch |
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Poster Session I (Saana Svärd, Sanae Ito) |
| 13:30-13:45 |
Introduction to today's posters |
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Piotr Głogowski (University of Wrocław): The Gaps in the Anabasis of Xenophon? |
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Vanessa Juloux (École Pratique des Hautes Études): Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches to Inventory Paradigms for Analyzing Entities Relations into Corpus from ANE: Beta Release (Bibliographical Notices, Ontology and Datamining) of a Collaborative Platform |
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Angelika Kellner (University of Innsbruck): The Intertwined Methodology of Written Sources and Archaeological Features: A Critical Approach to the Chronology of the Archaic Age in the Mediterranean |
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Ilkka Lindstedt (University of Chicago) / Jouni Harjumäki (University of Helsinki): Dating North Arabian Inscriptions According to Famous Events |
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Gerfrid Müller (Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg): Keilschriftmetrologie: Prospects of a New method |
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Jaakkojuhani Peltonen (University of Tampere): Legimitization of War and Alexander's Conquest of the Persian Empire |
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Simone Pittl (University of Innsbruck): The Disabled Body in Ancient Near Eastern Omen Literature |
| 13:45-14:30 |
Poster Session I |
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Session 4: The Problem of Genres (Martti Nissinen, Kurt Raaflaub) |
| 14:30-14:45 |
Introduction |
| 14:45-15:15 |
John Marincola (Classics, Florida State University): Do Genres Matter in Greco-Roman Historiography? |
| 15:15-15:45 |
Irene Madreiter (Ancient History / Assyriology, University of Innsbruck): Near Eastern Approaches to Writing "Historiography" |
| 15:45-16:00 |
Break |
| 16:00-16:30 |
Jason Silverman (Theology, University of Helsinki): Achaemenid Sources and the Problem of Genre |
| 16:30-17:00 |
Martti Nissinen (Theology, University of Helsinki): Genre as the Gateway to Ancient Prophecy |
| 17:00-17:15 |
Response |
| 17:15-17:45 |
Discussion |
| 17:45-18:30 |
Poster Session I (continued) |
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Wednesday, May 20
Venue: The Festive Hall of the Swedish School of Social Sciences, Snellmaninkatu 12 (entrance on Yrjö Koskisenkatu)
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| 09:00-10:00 |
Melammu Board Meeting |
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Session 5: Islamic Historiographies and their Predecessors (Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila, Josef Wiesehöfer) |
| 10:00-10:20 |
Introduction |
| 10:20-10:50 |
Ilkka Lindstedt (Arabic Studies, University of Helsinki): The Abbasid Revolution (747-750 CE) and Its Historiography: The Composing of a Sacred History |
| 10:50-11:20 |
Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila (Arabic Studies, University of Helsinki): Arab-Islamic World Histories: Between Persian and Sacred History |
| 11:20-11:35 |
Break |
| 11:35-11:45 |
Response |
| 11:45-12:00 |
Discussion |
| 12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
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Session 6: Author and Audience: The Texts and Their 'Sitz im Leben' (Rocío Da Riva, Mischa Meier) |
| 13:30-13:45 |
Introduction |
| 13:45-14:15 |
Caroline Waerzeggers (Assyriology, University of Leiden): The Babylonian Chronicles: Authorship, Readership |
| 14:15-14:45 |
Oliver Schelske (Classics, University of Tübingen): Historians, Audiences, Historical Audiences in the 5th Century |
| 14:45-15:15 |
Nicole Brisch (Assyriology, University of Kopenhagen): Kinglists and History: What's in a List? |
| 15:15-15:30 |
Break |
| 15:30-16:00 |
Christine Radtki (Classics, University of Tübingen): Latin Historiography under Barbarian Rule |
| 16:00-16:15 |
Response |
| 16:15-16:45 |
Discussion |
| 16:45-17:00 |
Break |
| 17:00-17:45 |
Keynote II Thomas Kämmerer (Assyriology, University of Tartu): Enuma Elish and Babylonian Cosmology |
| 19:30 |
Official Dinner – by invitation only (sponsored by the Finnish Institute of the Middle East)
Restaurant Kappeli (Eteläesplanadi 1)
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Thursday, May 21
Excursion to Tallinn
Arrival day, Tartu
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Friday, May 22
Venue: Main University Building, Ülikooli 18, Senate Hall
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| 08:45-09:00 |
Welcome address |
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Session 7: The Young Researchers Workshop (Vladimir Sazonov, Peeter Espak) |
| 09:00-09:15 |
Introduction |
| 09:15-09:45 |
Andreas Johandi (Theology, University of Tartu), Some Remarks about the Beginnings of the God Marduk |
| 09:45-10:15 |
Maximilian Räthel (Ancient History, University of Göttingen), Gyges, Croesus and Beyond Writing and Re-writing Lydian History Throughout the Centuries |
| 10:15-10:30 |
Break |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Ennio Biondi (Classics, University of Franche-Comté), Conceptualizing the Early History of the World: Plato and the Flood (Laws III 677a-680a) |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Bartłomiej Proc (Ancient History, Catholic University of Lublin), John Zonaras’ Epitome Historiarum as a Repository of Unknown Fragments by Ctesias of Cnidus and Other Ancient Historians |
| 11:30-11:45 |
Response |
| 11:45-12:15 |
Discussion |
| 12:15-13:30 |
Lunch |
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Poster Session II (Saana Svärd, Sanae Ito) |
| 13:30-13:45 |
Introduction to today's posters |
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Carlos Hernandez Garces (University of Oslo), Conception and Lexicalization of Time in Herodotus |
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Joonas Hirvonen (University of Leipzig): Humans and Animals in Ancient Mesopotamia |
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Sanae Ito (University of Helsinki): Scribes, Letters, and State Archives in the Assyrian Royal Palaces |
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Art Johanson (University of Tartu): Alexander's Successors: Establishment and Legitimation of Power |
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Jakub Kuciak (Jagiellonian University in Cracow): A Man between Two Worlds: Polycrates of Samos in Herodotus' Histories |
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Martin Kuldmägi (University of Tartu): The Emergence of Political Centralization in Mycenae: The Shaft Graves Dynasty |
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Lidia Leontjeva (University of Tartu): History of Persian manuscripts collection at University of Tartu Library |
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Vladimir Sazonov (University of Tartu): Some Remarks Concerning Development of the Theology of War in Ancient Mesopotamia |
| 13:45-14:30 |
Poster Session II |
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Session 8: Presocratics and Ancient Near Eastern Cosmology (Sebastian Fink, Alberto Bernabé) Part I |
| 14:30-14:45 |
Introduction |
| 14:45-15:15 |
Julia Mendoza (Classics, Complutense University of Madrid): The Cosmogonic Monism between India and Greece |
| 15:15-15:45 |
Ian Rutherford (Clasics, University of Reading): Hesiod and the Ancient Near East (working title) |
| 15:45-16:00 |
Break |
| 16:00-16:15 |
Response to Part I |
| 16:15-16:45 |
Discussion |
| 16:45-17:30 |
Poster Session II (continued) |
| 17:30-18:15 |
Keynote III Mait Kõiv (Ancient History, University of Tartu): Remembering Ruling Dynasties: Conception of Past in Greece and the Near Eastern Cultures |
| 19:30 |
Official reception for all speakers and company (invited by Ugarit Publishing House, Münster, University Café, 1st floor) |
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Saturday, May 23
Venue: Main University Building, Ülikooli 18, Senate Hall
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Session 9: Presocratics and Ancient Near Eastern Cosmology (Sebastian Fink, Alberto Bernabé) Part II |
| 09:30-10:00 |
Gebhard Selz (Assyriology, University of Vienna): The Mesopotamian Path to Abstraction |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Ignacio Márquez Rowe (Assyriology, CSIC Madrid): Presocratic Cosmology and Alien Wisdom: The Limits of Babylonisation |
| 10:30-10:45 |
Break |
| 10:45-11:15 |
Marc van de Mieroop (Assyriology, Columbia University): What is the point of the Babylonian Creation Myth? |
| 11:15-11:30 |
Response to Part II |
| 11:30-12:00 |
Discussion |
| 12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
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Session 10: General Melammu Section (Mait Kõiv, Irene Madreiter) |
| 13:30-13:45 |
Introduction |
| 13:45-14:15 |
Josine Blok (Ancient History, University of Utrecht) / Julia Krul (Assyriology, University of Leiden): Debt and Its Aftermath: The Near Eastern Background of Solon's Seisachtheia |
| 14:15-14:45 |
Matthias Haake (Ancient History, University of Münster): A New Identity for Lycia: The Dynast Arbinas, the Historian Menecratres of Xanthus and the Letoon |
| 14:45-15:15 |
Saana Svärd (Assyriology, University of Helsinki) / Brigitte Truschnegg (Ancient History, University of Innsbruck): The Figure of Semiramis in Roman and Neo-Assyrian Texts: Reflections on Gender |
| 15:15-15:30 |
Break |
| 15:30-16:00 |
Amar Annus (Assyriology, University of Tartu): Asceticism in the Ancient Mesopotamia: Metaphor or Reality? |
| 15:30-16:00 |
Martin Lang (Assyriology, University of Innsbruck): Knocking on Heaven's Door: Some Thoughts on the Reception and the Transformation of a Scene from the Gilgamesh-Epic |
| 16:45-17:00 |
Response |
| 17:00-17:30 |
Discussion |
| 17:30-18:00 |
General Assembly of the Melammu Project
Includes election of the new Board
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Sunday, May 24
Venue: Main University Building, Ülikooli 18, Senate Hall
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Session 10: Herodotus and the Ancient Near East (Elizabeth Irwin, Robert Rollinger) |
| 08:45-09:00 |
Introduction |
| 09:00-09:30 |
Rosaria Munson (Classics, Swarthmore College): Liberalizing Persia: The Shadow of a Greek Dream in Herodotus |
| 09:30-10:00 |
Johannes Haubold (Classics, University of Durham): Cities and Empires in Herodotus and Ancient Near Eastern Literature |
| 10:00-10:15 |
Break |
| 10:15-10:45 |
Birgit Gufler (Ancient History, University of Innsbruck): Mesopotamian Style Omens in Herodotus‘ Historiographical Writing |
| 10:45-11:15 |
Robert Rollinger (Assyriology/Ancient History, Universities of Helsinki and Innsbruck): Darius’ Accession to the Throne, Oibares and the Whinnying Horse |
| 11:15-11:30 |
Response |
| 11:30-12:00 |
Discussion |
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