Conference Day 1: Aspects of Collegiality and the Imperial Power in Rome (Principate and Late Antiquity)

Programme:

14:00 Welcome: Pascal Marty (MfO director), Beate Dignas (Somerville College) & Stéphane Benoist (ULille, HALMA, MfO, Somerville College)

14:30-18:00 Friday afternoon: Principate

Chair: Nicholas Purcell (Brasenose College)

14:30-15:30: Stéphane Benoist (ULille, HALMA, MfO, Somerville College), “The Antonine practice of collegiality and the construction of imperial power since Augustus”

15:30-16:30: Benet Salway (UCL), “Collegiality and individuality amongst the emperors of the Severan period”

16:30-17:00: Coffee break

17:00-18:00: Simon Corcoran, (Newcastle), “The limits of structured collegiality: the creation and dissolution of the tetrarchic system”