The historian and error
Chair of National Antiquities, Professor Christian GOUDINEAU and Chair of Religion, Institutions and Society in Ancient Rome, Professor John SCHEID
Study day organized by Sarah Rey
Friday, November 21, 2008
The historian, translation and error
9h15 Welcome of participants
9:30 Sarah Rey (ATER, Collège de France - Toulouse II)
General introduction
9h45 John Scheid (Collège de France)
Wilhelm Weber's Res Gestae Divi Augusti : a biased approach and a complex style
10:15 Corinne Bonnet (Toulouse II)
Errata, absurditates, deliria et hallucinationes (J. Scaliger). The path of historical criticism in the face of the Phoenician mythology of Philo of Byblos: a problematic and exemplary case of testis unus
10:45 a.m. Break
11h00 Matthieu Poux (Lyon II)
From Gaeta to Raurica: the funerary inscription of L. Munatius Plancus under the microscope of historical and archaeological realities
11:30 Pierre-Emmanuel Dauzat (translator and writer)
Intentional translation errors and lazy misinterpretation
12h00 Discussion
Errors of interpretation in the field
2:30 Nicolas Kyriakidis (École française d'Athènes - Strasbourg II)
A monument through interpretation: the tholos of Delphi
3:00 pm Meriem Sebaï (Paris I)
From error to wandering, or the construction of a contemporary myth: the "Semitic" temples of Roman Africa
3:30 pm Delphine Burlot (restorer)
Errors in the interpretation of ancient paintings. When forgeries appear..
16h00 Christian Goudineau (Collège de France)
Conclusion
