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PresentationAlthough the outcomes of reader-response criticism have repeatedly and meticulously been used in the analysis of other genres of classical literature (epic, tragedy, and oratory), the application of such a perspective still remains a significant&#160;desideratum&#160;in the field of classical historiography. The conference &#8220;Reading History in Antiquity: Audience-Oriented Perspectives on Classical Historiography&#8221; aspires to fill this gap.ProgramFriday, 21 April 201709.00&#8211;09.15:Opening remarks09.15&#8211;10.15: Antonis Tsakmakis, &#8220;Chance, Causality and Historical Narrative: The Oxyrhynchus Historian and the Historiographical Tradition&#8221;PANEL A: 5th Century Greek Historiography: Herodotus and Thucydides10.15&#8211;10.55: Edward M. Harris: &#8220;Creating a New Kind of Reader: Thucydides&#8217; Aims in the Archaeology&#8221;10.55&#8211;11.35: Marcin Kurpios, &#8220;Readers&#8217; Responses to Thucydides&#8217; Narrative of the Final Sea Battle in the Harbour of Syracuse in the Light of Ancient Literary Criticism&#8221;11.35&#8211;11.50: Coffee break11.50&#8211;12.30: Aur&#233;lien Pulice, &#8220;From ἐ&#958;ή&#947;&#951;&#963;&#953;&#962; to &#956;ί&#956;&#951;&#963;&#953;&#962;: Thucydides&#8217; Readership as Exemplified in ὑ&#960;&#959;&#956;&#957;ή&#956;&#945;&#964;&#945; from the Roman Period&#8221;12.30&#8211;13.10: Patrick Reinard, &#8220;Reading Ancient Historiography in Excerpts. The Case of the Papyrological Fragments of Herodotus and Thucydides&#8221;13.15&#8211;14.30: LunchPANEL B: Reading Greek Historiography in the Hellenistic and Imperial Era: Aims and Profits &#160;&#160;14.30&#8211;15.10: Uwe Herrmann, &#8220;Polybius and the Benefits and Pleasures of Reading Historiography&#8221;15.10&#8211;15.50: Ronald Orr, &#8220;Polybius&#8217;s Readers: Pragmatism and Pleasure&#8221;15.50&#8211;16.30: Evan Waters, &#8220;Reading History with Lucian: The Historian as Performer in How to Write History&#8221;16.30&#8211;17.10: Evgenia Moiseeva, &#8220;History of Outsiders or History for Outsiders: Flavius Josephus&#8217; Narrative Techniques and his Readers&#8221;19.00: DinnerSaturday, 22 April 201709.00&#8211;10.00: Dennis Pausch, &#8220;Livy, the Reader Involved, and the Audience of Roman Historiography&#8221;PANEL A: Roman Historiography of the 1st Century BC: Erudition and the Audience&#8217;s Expectations &#160;&#160;10.00&#8211;10.40: Edwin Shaw, &#8220;Sallust, the lector eruditus, and the purpose of history&#8221;10.40&#8211;11.20: Marine Miquel, &#8220;The Audience of Latin Historical Works in the 1st century B.C. in the Light of Geographical and Ethnographical Descriptions&#8221;11.20&#8211;11.35: Coffee breakPANEL B: Roman Historiography of the Imperial Era I: Tacitus and Pliny&#160; &#160;&#160;11.35&#8211;12.15: George Baroud, &#8220;Affective History and the Atmosphere of the Early Empire&#8221;12.15&#8211;12.55: Christoph Leidl, &#8220;Reading Spaces, Observing Spectators in Tacitus&#8217; Histories&#8221;13.00&#8211;14.15: Lunch14.15&#8211;14.55: Ari Zatlin, &#8220;A History in Letters? Pliny the Younger and the Limits of Imperial Literature&#8221;PANEL C: Roman Historiography of the Imperial Era II: Self-Fashioning and Authorship14.55&#8211;15.35: Pauline Duch&#234;ne, &#8220;Historiography in the Margins and the Reader as a Touchstone&#8221;15.35&#8211;16.15: Lydia Spielberg, &#8220;Whose Li(n)e Is It Anyway? Ancient Readers and the Historian&#8217;s Persona&#8221;16.15&#8211;16.55: Adam Kemezis, &#8220;The Magnificent Six? Multiple Authors and Meanings in the Historia Augusta&#8221;16.55&#8211;17.10: Greetings18.30: Dinner