9-10 April 2026: Comedy and Commerce: Ancient Economies in the Light of Comic Texts from Classical Greece to Imperial Rome
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11. March 2026
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Veranstaltungen
Comedy and Commerce: Ancient Economies in the Light of Comic Texts from Classical Greece to Imperial Rome
International Conference
Munich, 9–10 April 2026
Bringing together scholars from ancient history, classical philology, archaeology, and papyrology, the conference will explore how Greek and Roman comic texts—comedy and satire alike—shed light on economic practices, legal conditions, social hierarchies, and moral debates surrounding wealth, trade, and social mobility.
The conference brings together interdisciplinary research approaches within a longue durée perspective: the period under investigation ranges from Greek Classical antiquity (5th century BCE) to the Roman Imperial period (2nd century CE). Topics addressed include, among others, trade, monetization, the political dimension of abundance and scarcity, value and the commodity character of (immaterial) goods, the role of law, exchange and purchasability as metaphors, and the moral evaluation of wealth and social mobility. The search for “hard” economic facts is thus combined with the reconstruction of the socio-cultural embedding of economic activity in value discourses and literary representations.
Contact
Dorothea Rohde: dorothea.rohde@uni-koeln.de
Moritz Hinsch: M.Hinsch@lmu.de
The complete program and further information can be found at the event page on H-Soz-Kult.
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