Priests and State in the Roman World

28-30 August 2008

The international conference on ‘Priests and the State in the Roman World’ took place at Lampeter between 28 and 30 August 2008. This conference explored the role of priests and priesthood in the religious, social, and political life of Rome and her Empire. The proceedings of the conference are the basis for the edited volume: Priests and State in the Roman World (edited with Federico Santangelo), Franz Steiner Verlag (Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 33), 2011.

List of Papers Presented at the Conference

J. Rüpke (Erfurt), Different colleges – never mind?

J. North (London), Lex Domitia revisited

T. J. Cornell (Manchester), ‘Cato and the tablet of the pontifex maximus’   

A. Raggi (Pisa), Religion and Provincial Laws

S. Mitchell (Exeter), What did imperial high priests actually do? 

M. Humpries (Swansea), Towards a new pontifex maximus? Roman Church andRomanState in Late Antiquity

A. Dalla Rosa (Pisa-Cologne), Auspicia of the emperor and the proconsuls

J. Rich (Nottingham), Roman Priests and Roman War

F. Santangelo (Lampeter), Pontiffs and pax deorum

A. Clark (Oxford), Magistri and ministri in Roman Italy

E. Isayev (Exeter), Just the right amount of priestly foreigners: Roman citizenship for the Greek priestess of Ceres

J. Richardson (Lampeter), The Vestal Virgins and the Annales Maximi

F. Glinister (London), The Salian Virgins

J. Reynolds (Cambridge), Priests inCyrenaica

N. Belayche(Paris), Priests at Pisidian Antioch

R. Häussler (Osnabruck), State and Religion inGalliaNarbonensis

B. Rossignol (Paris), Municipal and provincial priests from the Danubian provinces (Pannonia,Dacia,Moesiasuperior)

B. Goffaux (Lille), Priests in Roman Spain

L. Capponi (Newcastle), Priests, Books and State in Hellenistic and RomanEgypt

A. Powell (UWICAH), Killing a priest of Apollo: Aeneid 10, 537-42

The conference was dedicated to the memory of our colleague Keith Hopwood.

Organisers

Dr James Richardson, University of Wales Trinity St David

Dr Federico Santangelo, Newcastle University