Approaches to Athenian
Democracy
THE EIGHTH ANNUAL LANGFORD CONFERENCE
Claude Pepper Center
Florida State University
February 22-23, 2002
A conference sponsored by the Department of Classics at
the Florida State University
under the direction of P.J. Rhodes, Langford Eminent
Scholar in Classics
Preliminary Program
Friday, February 22
8:30-9:00: Coffee and Continental Breakfast at Claude Pepper Center
9:00-11:30: Session I (9:00-11:30)
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Jennifer Roberts (City University of New York): "Athenian Citizenship in
a Cross-Cultural Context."
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Loren J. Samons (Boston University): "The Place of Democracy in Athenian
History."
11:30-1:30: Lunch
1:30-5:00: Session II
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Robert Wallace (Northwestern University): "Listening to the archai in
Democratic
Athens."
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Raphael Sealey (University of California, Berkeley): "Athens and the Rule
of Law."
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Mogens Hansen (University of Copenhagen): "Was the Polis a State or a Stateless
Society?"
7:00: Dinner at Local Restaurants
Saturday, February 23
8:30-9:00: Coffee and Continental Breakfast at Claude Pepper Center
9:00-11:30: Session III (9:00-11:30)
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Josiah Ober (Princeton University): "Democracy, Knowledge, and Military
Performance in Fifth-Century Athens."
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P.J. Rhodes (Durham/Florida State University): "Nothing to Do with Democracy:
Drama and the Polis."
12:00-4:30: Lunch and Excursion to Wakulla Springs State Park (Rides
Provided)
7:00: Closing Dinner at Goodwood Plantation (Rides Provided)
The Langford Family Eminent Scholar Chair and the Annual Langford
Conference were established in 1992 by
George and Marian Langford and their sons Lawton Langford and
G. Robertson Langford, Jr.
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