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2012 Classical Association Annual Conference

University of Exeter

Wednesday 11 - Saturday 14 April 2012

In 2012 the annual meeting of the Classical Association will be hosted by the Department of Classics & Ancient History at the University of Exeter.

The plenary lectures and panels will be held on campus in the Peter Chalk Centre. Accommodation and meals will also be pro­vided on campus in Holland Hall and Mardon Hall, with the possibility for those who should wish it of individual bookings in nearby hotels. Excursions will be arranged to places of interest in Exeter and in the surrounding area.

For further details, please see the conference booklet.

DETAILS OF PANELS, SPEAKERS, AND PAPERS
(The titles of panels are listed in alphabetical order)
(An asterisk (*) next to a panel title indicates that the panel has been specially organised for the conference)

Adultery, Slavery and Law
Amy Bratton (Edinburgh) Adulterous Slaves? A reappraisal of the role of slaves in the lex Iulia de adulteriis coercendis
Jessica Dixon (Manchester) Dressing the adulteress
David Lewis (Durham) Slave marriages in the Laws of Gortyn: A Matter of Rights?

* Ancient Greece and Modern Britain: Liberalism, Empire and Democracy
Panel convenor: Alun Williams (Cardiff)
Andrew Roberts (KCL) The turn to Alexander: Britain and Asia from William Robertson to George Grote
Alun D. Williams (Cardiff) Liberal civilisation and Ancient Greece: liberal scholars and liberal understandings of colonisation, empire, and politics from George Grote to Gilbert Murray
Callum Barrell (Cambridge) The leap to Athens in John Stuart Mill’s democratic thought
Paula James (Open University) Hercules as working class hero

Attic Vase Painting
Lavinia Foukara (Edinburgh) Leto as mother: Representations of Leto with Apollo and Artemis in Attic vase paintings of 6th-5th c. BC
Georgina Muskett (Liverpool Museums) Recognition of 'girls' in 5th century BCE Athens: the evidence from painted pottery
Cary MacMahon (Independent scholar) Art or Experience? Reconstructing Scythian Archers’ Clothing
Ariadne Konstantinou (Jerusalem) Dionysiac Landscape: The “maenadic mountain” between myth and history, art and literature

Authenticity and Sculpture
Glenys Davies (Edinburgh) Piranesi’s vision of Roman material culture for his own times
Fiona Mowat (Edinburgh) Creating the antique: the restorations of G.B. Piranesi
Douglas Underwood (St Andrews) Plainly Pastiche: Fakes, Reuse and a 'Roman' Votive Statuette
Carolyn Hibgie (Buffalo) From Votary to Fakery: Collecting in the Greek World

* Classical Reception and Contemporary Women’s Writing
Panel convenor: Polly Toney (Birmingham)
Elena Theodorakopoulos (Birmingham) Introduction to Classical Reception and Contemporary Women’s Writing
Fiona Cox (Exeter) Mutation, Metamorphosis and Exile – Ovid and Jo Shapcott
Holly Ranger (Birmingham) A critical analysis of Ali Smith’s lesbian feminist reception of the tale of Iphis and Ianthe in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (9.666-797)
Polly Toney (Birmingham) Classical Reception and Feminist Politics: A Cautionary Reading of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata

* Classics in the Classroom and Beyond during the Long Nineteenth Century
Panel convenor: Rachel Bryant Davies (Oxford)
Michael Morris (Open University) ‘The schoolmaster is deranged in his mind and wanders abroad’: the inspection reports of the Dick Bequest on nineteenth-century Scottish parochial schools
Helen Roche (Cambridge) ‘Youth of Sparta and of Mars’: Uses and Abuses of Classics at the Prussian Cadet-Schools (1818-1920)
Rachel Bryant Davies (Oxford) ‘A pleasanter way of learning [...] than out of a dull lesson-book’: classical antiquity ‘rendered for children’ during the long nineteenth century
Jo-Marie Claassen (Stellenbosch) ‘You are people like these Romans were!': D.D.T. Jabavu, B.A. (Lond.) of Fort Hare, 1885-1959

Classics in the Classroom II: The 21st Century and Beyond
Steven Hunt (Cambridge) An investigation into the supply of Classics teachers in the secondary schools sector, 2011-12
Edward Bragg (Havant College) “Grasping Homer’s Odyssey and four Greek tragedies in 9 months: the teaching of AS level Classical Civilisation in a 21st century sixth form college.”
Maxine Lewis (Sydney) Queering Catullus: Ethical pedagogy, (un)ethical translations
Amy Smith (Reading) MyUre: Moulding museum data to every learner’s individual needs

Classics and Colonialism
Matthew Dillon (New England) Polykleitos and the bon sauvage: Greek sculpture and terra australis incognita
Luke Richardson (UCL) Prometheus in Algiers: Albert Camus, revolt and the role of the mythic
Sola Adeyemi (Redeemer’s University) & Fracturing the Insularity of the Global State: War and Conflict in Moira Buffini’s Olakunbi Olasope (Ibadan) Welcome to Thebes
Obert Mlambo (Zimbabwe) Hopes, Promises and Lies: The Returning War Hero in Virgil’s Aeneid and Zimbabwe Compared

Commentaries and Ancient Scholarship
Beatrice da Vela (UCL) Aelius Donatus and the commentaries’ tradition
Laerke Andersen (Southern Denmark) Τhe γνῶμαι in Eustathius’ Commentaries
Maria Chiara Scappaticcio (Naples) Learning Latin: Grammaries and annotations in Latin papyri
Ahuvia Kahane (Royal Holloway) Virgil’s Biography and Historical Patterns of Epic Authority ‐ Vitae and ‘Mortes’

Drinking in the Ancient World
Shaun Mudd (Exeter) Alcohol and Environment in Roman Culture
Hallie Franks (NYU) Sailing the symposium: Mosaics and metaphor at Eretria
Mike Beer (Exeter College) The de sua ebrietate of Marcus Antonius: an attempt to please everyone?

Early Greek Lyric and Iambic Poetry
James Smith (Exeter) Death and Memory in Alcman’s Louvre Partheneion
Nicholas Boterf (Stanford) Temple Tantrums: Foundation and Language in Alcaeus 129 V
Maria Pavlou (Open University, Cyprus) Aegina’s Obsession with Epinicians
Margarita Alexandrou (UCL) Hipponax on sex

Economic History
Mick Stringer (Reading) Words, Numbers and Economic Rationalism: How language and book-keeping shaped Roman financial decisions
Theodora Jim (Hong Kong) Eleusis and the Athenian empire: the economic dimension of the Eleusinian First-Fruits Decree
Colin Elliott (Bristol) Boom and Bust: Describing a Financial Bubble during the Early Principate
Kerry Phelan (Maynooth) Women, War and Work in Demosthenes 57

Gift-giving in Greek and Roman literature
Martin Stöckinger (Heidelberg) Gifts and Songs in Virgil’s Eclogues 2 and 3
Kathrin Winter (Heidelberg) Medea’s gifts. Presents and Retribution in Seneca’s Medea
Bridget Langley (Washington) Absent presents: desire, distance and the donum in Ovid Amores 2.15
Fabian Horn (Ludwig Maximilians) Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes: Gifts in the Iliad

Greco-Roman philosophy
Georgia Tsouni (Central European Uni.) Oikeiosis and ancient ideas of Cosmopolitanism
Matthew Duncombe (Cambridge) Relativism and the Puzzles of Size and Number in the Theaetetus
Hoyoung Yang (Exeter) Cicero’s philosophical position – what sort of sceptic is he?
Nicholas Banner (Exeter) Ainigma and Tradition: Plotinus’ Development of the Esoteric Reading of Philosophy

Greek Drama and Society
David Pritchard (Queensland) The Incongruous Athletes of Satyric Drama
Edmund Stewart (Nottingham) Euripides, Tragedy and Athletics
Athina Papachrysostomou (Patras) Money for pleasure: Comedy’s report on post-classical Athenian society
Natalia Tsoumpra (Oxford) What makes a leader? Rhetorical and sexual manipulation in Aristophanes’ Birds

Greek Historiography
Rachel Bruzzone (Virginia) Thucydides’ Homeric Corcyraeans
K. Scarlett Kingsley (Princeton) Explaining Time: Age Distinctions and Historical Causation in Thucydides’ History
Carol Atack (Cambridge) The discourse of kingship in Athenian historiography
Scott Farrington (Colorado) Rhetoric and Persuasion in Polybius’ Histories

* Greek History: Empire and Locality in Classical Greece
Panel convenor: Aneurin Ellis-Evans (Oxford)
Aneurin Ellis-Evans (Oxford) The Actaean Cities and the Athenian Empire
Thom Russell (Oxford) Byzantium and the Athenian Tribute Lists: Polis Formation at the Entrance to the Black Sea
Benjamin Raynor (Oxford) Macedonian Expansion and the Polis in the Fourth Century: Alteration and Diversification

Greek Magical Papyri
Eleni Pachoumi (Thessaloniki) Is Dionysus ever invoked in the Greek Magical Papyri from Roman Egypt?
Andrej Petrovic (Durham) Geography of Magical Beyonds: Eschatological concepts in Greek Magic
Luke Evans (Durham) Aggressive Agents: Figurines and Love Magic in the PGM

The Greek Novel
Bruce MacQueen (Gdansk) The erotics of writing in the Prologue of Longus’s Daphnis and Chloe
William Owens (Ohio) The Greek novel Callirhoe: By a freedman author for freedman readers?
Helen Gilmore McVeigh (Maynooth) Assembly-women in Chariton’s Callirhoe
Gillian Granville Bentley (KCL) Leucippe’s Haircut: the case for the sub-literary in the Ancient Greek Novel

Greek and Roman Oratory
Asako Kurihara (Osaka) Pity and Charis in the Athenian Popular Court
Sarah Wilkowski (Birmingham) Creating a Philippic Model: Exploring the Hermeneutics of Classical Polemic
Annalisa Triggiano (Salerno) Greek Culture and Roman Oratory
Hannah Mitchell (St Andrews) Asinius Pollio the Orator

Greek Tragedy
Katerina Mikellidou (UCL) Psychagōgia in fifth-century Athenian drama: Power-play between the living and the dead
Annemieke Drummen (Heidelberg) Dialogic resonance in Greek tragedy and comedy
Lucy Jackson (Oxford) The Rhesus, fourth-century tragedy and the development of the tragic chorus
Lyndsay Coo (Cambridge) A poet most addicted to punning? Speaking names in Sophoclean drama

Hellenistic Poetry
Ivana Petrovic (Durham) Posidippus’ Travelling Stones
Davide Antonio Secci (Oxford) Fateful toys: Zeus’ ball revisited (Apoll.Rh. Arg. 3.131-41)
Flora Manakidou (Thrace) Callimachus’ Iambus 4 reconsidered: Iambic voices, identities and origins
Giulia Biffis (UCL) Manipulation of tragic genre elements as narratological tool in Lycophron’s Alexandra

Herodotus
Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz (Tel Aviv) How to (Re)count Things: Katalegein in Herodotus
Niki Karapanagioti (Reading) Cross-Dressing in Herodotus’ Histories
Jan Haywood (Liverpool) Herodotus and the Inscriptions: A Reappraisal
Beth Hartley (Exeter) Herodotean Presences in Imperial Greek Fiction

* Heroic Journeys
Panel convenor: Greta Hawes (Bristol)
Emma Aston (Reading) Thessalos: an eponym abroad
Pauline Hanesworth (Trinity St David) Return Ticket: Heracles’ Underworld Journey and the Eleusinian Mysteries
Greta Hawes (Bristol) Off the Beaten Track: Heracles’ Labours in Pausanias’ Description of Greece

* Historiography and Ideology: ‘Brothers’ in the Ancient World
Panel convenor: Gwynaeth McIntyre (Manitoba)
Paula Whiscombe (St Andrews) What is brotherly love? Representations of brothers in Greek historiography
Jeremy Armstrong (Auckland) Bands of Brothers: Fraternal Relationships and Warfare in Early Rome
Gwynaeth McIntyre (Manitoba) Republican heroes, Imperial propaganda figures: Castor and Pollux in Maxentian ideology
Amber Gartrell (Warwick) The Dioscuri as Harbingers of Victory; The Developing Significance of Castor and Pollux in the Late Republic and Early Principate

Images of Empresses
Caitlin C. Gillespie (Pennsylvania) Poppaea Venus in Tacitus’ Annals
Alex Imrie (Edinburgh) A Manipulative Matriarch? Re-evaluating the image of Julia Domna
Liesbeth Claes (Radboud) Imperial coins reflecting the transgressive roles of imperial women

Impact of Greek Culture I: The East after Alexander
Alexei V Zadorozhny (Liverpool) Otherness writes back: oriental inscriptions and the Alexander narrative
Alex McAuley (McGill) Historicising Foundation Mythology: The Case of Antioch
Jelle Stoop (Yale) How do honorific inscriptions talk about statue portraits in Hellenistic Kaunos?
Kyle Erickson (Trinity St David) A Century of Gods: A reconsideration of Seleucid ruler cult

Impact of Greek Culture II: Roman Transformations of Greek Models
Nikolina Hadjigiorgi (UCL) The Ageing Oedipus in Rome
Nicholas Freer (UCL) Vergil’s Georgics and Philodemus’ Poetic Theory
Jacqueline Klooster (Amsterdam) Solving the Vitulus: An Aratean Echo in Horace Ode 4.2
Eleanor Reeve (Oxford) Rustic Sensibilities in Rome's Cosmopolitan Comedy.

Interpreting the Visual: Greek and Roman Material Display
Nadia Cracknell (Cardiff) Ponuntur Clipei: Shield Trophies and Roman Domestic Decoration
Jonathan Clarkson (UWIC) Narrative, space and the role of the viewer in relation to a Roman well-head
Chris Siwicki (Exeter) Divine Intervention: The role of religion in the restoration of Rome’s public monuments
Michael Scott (Cambridge) Final moments? Representing death on tombs in the Greek and Roman worlds

Julius Caesar the Author
Tristan Taylor (New England) Caesar’s Gallic Genocide? A Case Study in Ancient Mass Violence
Ayelet Peer (Tel Aviv) Sibi semper primam fuisse dignitatem vitaque potiorem: Julius Caesar's self-representation in the speeches of the Bellum Civile
Elizabeth Keitel (Amherst) Caesar and Thucydides at Massilia
Richard Westall (Rome) Caesar, Bellum Civile 1.33.2: Enemies All Alike

* KYKNOS: Novel Heroines
Panel convenors: Ian Repath and John Morgan (Swansea)
Evelien Bracke (Swansea) Cunning Women in the Greek Novel
Rachel Bird (Swansea) Leukippe’s sophrosyne in Achilles Tatius
Stephen Trzaskoma (New Hampshire) Clitophon as Romance Heroine
Nick D’Alconzo (Swansea) Chariclea Daughter of Phantasia

* KYKNOS II: Novel Receptions
Panel convenors: Ian Repath and John Morgan (Swansea)
Aldo Tagliabue (Swansea) The close link between sophrosyne and the Egyptian conceptualisation of immortality in Xenophon of Ephesus’ Ephesiaca
Ian Repath (Swansea ) A Swarm of Intertextuality: Heliodorus, Achilles Tatius, and Plato
John Morgan (Swansea) An operatic reception of Daphnis and Chloe
Kimberly Hawkins (Swansea) Money, Money, Money: Bonfire of the Vanities, Pompeii, and Petronius’ Satyrica

Language and Dialect in the Greco-Roman World
Amy Coker (Liverpool) Greek in Contact with Foreign Languages: the example of grammatical gender
Matilde Serangeli (Köln) Greco-Lycian Bilingual Inscriptions: a case of Diglossia?
Kristjan Šinkec (Tel Aviv) Was koine a standard language or a fifth dialektos? Rethinking the Ancient Greek written registers
Karin Tikkanen (Gothenburg) “Italic” - the common tongue of Rome?

* Late Antique Historiography
Panel convenor: Victoria Leonard (Cardiff)
David DeVore (Berkeley) Direct Quotation, Character, and Speech-Acts: from Greek Historiography to Eusebius’ Ecclesiastical History
James Corke-Webster (Manchester) Eusebius and Imperial Authority in the Historia ecclesiastica
Victoria Leonard (Cardiff) Orosius and the Construct of Time in the Historia adversus paganos
Jamie Wood (Manchester) History and pedagogy in late antiquity

Late Antiquity
David Greenwood (Edinburgh) Celsus, Porphyry, and Julian: a key methodological distinction
Gabrielle Villais (UCL) Constructing a community: the fourth-century virginity corpus as ecclesiastical paradigm
Becky Littlechilds (KCL) Finding the holy at late antique Rome: some remarks on pilgrim itineraries
Clare Coombe (Reading) Colourful language in Claudian’s De Raptu Proserpinae

Latin Literature and the Emperor
Philip Pratt (Harvard) Weathering the storm: Statius, Domitian, and the Kalendae Decembres
Giulia Brunetta (Royal Holloway) Laus vera et humili saepe contingit viro,non nisi potenti falsa: reflections on praise and flattery in the imperial age
Catherine Ware (Liverpool) A Divine Emperor in a Christian Court
Phoebe Garrett (Newcastle, Australia) The Trouble with Tiberius

Lucian and Philosophy
Emeline Marquis (Sorbonne) Perception of Cynicism in the second century A.D.: Cynics in Lucian’s works
James Jope (Independent Scholar) Lucian and Philosophers
Kerry Lefebvre (Wisconsin) Fake Philosophy: Lucian, the Stage, and the Nigrinus

Modern Representations of Ancient Women
Trevor Fear (OU) When Cleopatra met the Warrior Princess
Jo Whalley (Wellington) Tarantino’s Amazon: The Reception of an Ancient Archetype
Katie Billotte (Royal Holloway) Depraved Penelope: Re-Imagining Feminine Virtue in Hassan Loo Sattarvandi Belägring

* Monstrous Appearances in Classical Antiquity
Panel convenors: Debbie Felton, (Amherst) and Dunstan Lowe (Kent)
Daniel Ogden (Exeter) Looking for Lamia
Debbie Felton (Amherst) Apuleius’s Cupid as a (Male) Lamia (Met. 5.17-18)
Dunstan Lowe (Kent) Towards a Politics of Body Modification in Antiquity
Jack Lennon (UCL) The Polluted Table and the Cannibalistic Gaze: Marius, Caesar & Beyond

* New Approaches to Domestic Violence in Antiquity
Panel convenor: Fiona McHardy (Roehampton)
Nancy S Rabinowitz (Hamilton College) Marriage or Rape? Aeschylus’ Suppliants and Charles Mee’s Big Love
Susan Deacy & F. McHardy (Roehampton) Killing Pregnant Women in Comparative Perspective
Toni Badnall (Oxford) Hell Hath no Fury: ζηλοτυπία, infanticide and revenge in Greek myth
Richard Seaford (Exeter) Domestic Violence and the Polis in Aeschylus' Danaid trilogy

* New Approaches to Greek Warfare
Panel convenor: Hans van Wees (UCL)
Cezary Kucewicz (UCL) Honour, War and Body Parts: The mutilation of the dead in the Iliad
Owen Rees (UCL) Combat Trauma: A methodological perspective
Alexander Millington (UCL) Ares and Enyalios on the Battlefield
Roel Konijnendijk (UCL) ‘Neither the Less Valorous Nor the Weaker’: Persian Military Might and the Battle of Plataia

New Enquiries into the Bosporus
Natalia Gourova (KCL) What did ancient Greeks mean by ‘Cimmerian Bosporus’?
Jakub Szamalek (Cambridge) What were dug-outs for? A study of early Bosporan architecture
David Braund (Exeter) The Bosporian kingdom in Athenian oratory: Gylon and the mysterious affair at Nymphaeum

Performing Song and Wisdom
Phillip Horky (Durham) Indo-Iranian Cosmology and the Development of Presocratic Natural Science
Ioannis Lambrou (UCL) Competitive Singing as Competition in ΚΛΕΟΣ
Smaro Nikolaidou-Arabatzi (Thrace) Maiden Choruses in the Epinician Odes of Pindar and Bacchylides: Poet’s Choral ‘I’
Timothy Boyd (Buffalo) All the King’s Horses: Reconstructing Rhapsodic Performance and the Commedia dell’Arte

* Plutarch and the Qualities of Leadership
Panel convenor: John Marincola (Florida State)
Laurel Fulkerson (Florida State) Plutarch on the Statesman: Stability and Change in the Lives
Frances Titchener (Utah State) Plutarch’s Nicias: Avoiding Defeat at All Costs
Sophia Xenophontos (Oxford) The Virtues of a Good General: Military Leadership in Plutarch’s Fabius Maximus
John Marincola (Florida State) The Fairest Victor: Aristides’ Leadership in the Persian Wars

* Poleis and the Gods: Religion and Politics in the Greek World
Panel convenor: Julia Shear (American School at Athens)
Hannah Wiley (Cambridge) Oaths, curses and the polis in crisis
Robin Osborne (Cambridge) The construction of conflict: archaeology, epigraphy and religion in fifth-century Athens
Julia Shear (American School, Athens) Civil strife, the gods and the city: the Artemisia at Amarynthos
Robert Parker (Oxford) Religion and politics in Caria

* Politics and Ideology of the Civil War
Panel convenor: Kathryn Welch (Sydney)
Kit Morell (Sydney) Cato and the Courts in 54
Kathryn Welch (Sydney) Why Bibulus? Choosing a naval commander in 49-48BC
Hannah Cornwell (Oxford) The politics of peace: ideas of pax in the late Roman Republic
Louise Hodgson (Durham) Negotiating Sulla

Practical Ethics and Psychology in Plutarch and Seneca
Eleni Kechagia-Ovseiko (Oxford) Plutarch’s ‘heart’: emotions, medicine and philosophy in the Lives and the Moralia
Johan Vekselius (Lund) Weeping victors in Plutarch – tearful variations of a Hellenistic motif
Liz Gloyn (Birmingham) “Books Will Speak Plain When Counsellors Blanch”: Reading as Consolation in Seneca
Reading and Intertextuality
Bill Beck (Pennsylvania) Tying Up Loose Ends: The Metapoetics of Closure in Odyssey 22
Sarah Brooks (Manchester) prima fuit rerum confusa sine ordine moles: Finding Structure in Ovid’s Ars Amatoria 2
Barbara Weiden Boyd (Bowdoin College) Beginning an Epic (Journey): Homer’s Telemachus and Ovid’s Phaethon
Bobby Xinyue (UCL) Looking back on the divinity of Octavian: the sphragis of the Georgics and the First Eclogue

Reading Practices and the Material Text
Francesca Sapsford (Birmingham) Martial and the lector studiosus
Joseph Howley (Columbia) Book “production” in Imperial Rome: irruptions of materiality into the textual plane
Ivo Volt (Tartu) As X says in his letter to Y: aspects of citation in antiquity
Eleanor Winsor Leach (Indiana) Pliny’s Epistolary Re-inscription: Writing the Monuments of Verginius Rufus and Pallas the Claudian Secretary

* Reassessing Textual Traditions
Panel convenor: Marcello Nobili (Rome “La Sapienza”)
David Butterfield (Cambridge) The ‘Fragments’ of Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura: False Friends?
Marcello Nobili (Rome) Martial Book 12: a textual reassessment
Paola Bassino (Durham) Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi: the contribution of the papyrus fragments

Reception of Greek and Roman drama
Amanda Wrigley (Westminster) Greek Plays on British Television: Theatre, War, Sex, Education
Helen Slaney (Oxford) Schlegel, Shelley and the “Death” of Seneca
Folake Onayemi (Ibadan) Transculturalism in the choral songs of Euripides’ Trojan Women and Osofisan’s Women of Owu

Reciprocity in Greek Literature and Thought
Polyxeni Strolonga (Franklin and Marshall) Shaping Religious Beliefs: The Case of the Major Homeric Hymns
Vayos Liapis (OU, Cyprus) Compound Evil: The Economics of Hubris in Solon and the Theognidea
Kleanthis Mantzouranis (UCL) The politics of largess and Aristotle’s megaloprepeia
Kazutaka Inamura (Cambridge) Justice in Exchange: Aristotle’s Theory of Gift-giving in NE V.5

* Returning from Exile: Politics, Rhetoric and Religion in Cicero’s post reditum Speeches
Panel convenors: Henriette van der Blom (Oxford) and Luca Grillo (Amherst College)
Luca Grillo (Amherst College) Self-fashioning, praise and invective in Cicero’s De Provinciis Consularibus
John North (UCL) Divination in action: Cicero and Clodius on the haruspices.
Catherine Steel (Glasgow) Cicero and the Senate, 57-56 B.C.
Henriette van der Blom (Oxford) The public responses to Cicero’s speeches post reditum

Roman Ethics and Exemplarity
Rebecca Langlands (Exeter) Roman Exemplary Wisdom
Eleanor Brooke (Leeds) Cicero’s Ancestors? History and Singularity in the Speeches
Steve Kennedy (The Maynard School) Plautus the Philosopher

Roman Provinces
Ersin Hussein (Warwick) Localizing the Global in Roman Cyprus
Hale Güney (Exeter) The self-sufficiency of Roman Nicomedia: Perspectives in the longue durée
Peter Norris (Liverpool) The Experience of Frontier in the Provinces of Hispania
Cara Sheldrake (Exeter) Searching for the Cassiterides

* Rule and Legitimacy of Rule in the Mithridatic Kingdom
Panel convenor: Anca Dan (Topoi-DAI, Berlin)
Giusto Traina (Sorbonne) Mithridates and Tigranes of Armenia: Cases of Oriental Despotism?
Luis Ballesteros Pastor (Seville) Mithridates Eupator as a Charismatic Hero
Charlotte Lerouge (Paris-Ouest) Fictitious Genealogies in the Legitimacy of Mithridates VI Eupator’s Ancestors
Anca Dan (Topoi-DAI, Berlin) Mithridates Eupator against Rome: the Wars of Propaganda

* Rulers and Subjects in Diodorus Siculus’ Bibliotheke
Panel convenor: Shane Wallace (TCD)
Shane Wallace (TCD) Saviours and Tyrants: Diodorus on Gelon and Agathocles of Syracuse
Eran Almagor (Ben Gurion) The King of Kings and his Subjects: Diodorus on Artaxerxes II
Peter Morton (Edinburgh) Eunus the Cowardly King: Suitable for his Subjects?
John Holton (Edinburgh) Two opposing dynastai: Ptolemy and Perdikkas at Diodorus 18.33-36

* School and University collaborations: Some New Developments
Panel convenor: Catherine Steel (Glasgow)
Genevieve Liveley (Bristol) The Public Role of the Humanities: developments at Bristol
Sarah McPhee (OCR) Classics Cluster Groups: facilitating cooperation and communication between schools
Amy Coker (Liverpool) Liverpool’s Classics Graduate Teaching Fellow Partnership
Cressida Ryan (Oxford) Plugging the Teacher Training Gap? PG students in the classroom

* Screening Sex: One Hundred Years of Roman Depravity in American Cinema and Television
Panel convenor: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (Edinburgh)
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (Edinburgh) Perverted Emperors and Screaming Queens: Roman Sexual Degeneracy in Pre-Code Hollywood
Joanna Paul (Open University) Coding Roman Sexual Deviance in Fifties and Sixties Hollywood
Monica S. Cyrino (New Mexico) The Domestication of Deviance: Screening Roman Sex on Television since 2000

* Songs of the Past: the Reception of Classical Antiquity in Opera
Panel convenor: Anastasia Bakogianni (OU)
Jon Solomon (Illinois) French Appropriation of Greek Tragedy and Myth in 1674-1675
Anastasia Bakogianni (Open University) Electra’s Song: the Tragic Heroine as an Operatic Diva in Mikis Theodorakis’ Electra (1992-93)
Gesine Manuwald (UCL) Roman Emperors on the Venetian Stage: Il Vespasiano (1678) and Il Nerone (1679)
Robert Ketterer (Iowa) L’inclemenza di Tito: Translating Livy in Vivaldi’s Tito Manlio (1719)

Space and the Oikos in Greek Tragedy
Emmanuela Bakola (UCL) The ‘Oikos’ in the Oresteia and the origins of Eco-logical discourse
Dimitra Kokkini (UCL) Gender and space: Jason’s ‘movement’ in Euripides’ Medeia
Eleanor OKell (Leeds) Inheriting Thebes in Athens: Sophocles’ OC and Euripides’ Phoenissae
Ioanna Papadopoulu (Thrace) Aeschylean views on landscape and environment: Plays without space or plays on space?

Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World
Nigel Nicholson (Reed College) Athlete Legends and Epinician in Western Locri
Jillian Mitchell (Trinity St David) “The Case of the Strangled Saxons”: Spectacle and Sport at the games in late fourth century Rome
Sofie Remijsen (Leuven) The city and the end of the ancient agones

* Storytelling in the Attic Orators
Panel convenor: Dimos Spatharas (Crete)
Myrto Aloumpi (Oxford) Storytelling and characterization in Demosthenes 21 (Against Meidias)
Ifigeneia Giannadaki (UCL) Narrating the law in Against Androtion (Dem. 22)
Dimos Spatharas (Crete) Storytelling and Disgust
Guy Westwood (Oxford) A hinterland for Chaeronea: Narrative, self-presentation and the Athenian past in Demosthenes’ On the Crown

* Travelling the Desert and the Seas: Trade on the Southern and Eastern Frontiers of the Roman Empire
Panel convenors: L. Gregoratti (Udine) and E. Seland (Bergen)
Eivind Seland (Bergen) Pliny, Appian and Palmya
Leonardo Gregoratti (Udine) The Palmyrenes east of the Euphrates
Dario Nappo (Oxford) Policy and trade in the Red Sea during the first and second century AD
Katia Schorle (Oxford) Bu Njem: Soldiers, Tribes and Desert Trade along the Tripolitanian Border

* What about Comic hamartēma? A Study of the Comic Error: Aristotle’s Definition and its Staging in Greek and Roman New Comedy
Panel convenor: Valeria Cinaglia (KCL)
Valeria Cinaglia (KCL) Comic hamartēma in Aristotle’s Poetics
Nathalie Lhostis (Lyon) The Menandrian “Comedy of Errors”
Chrysanthi Demetriou (Leeds) Comici Errores in Terence

* Writing the Words: Scholarship and Original fiction
Panel convenor: Tony Keen (Open University)
Tony Keen (Open University) My name is nobody
Juliette Harrisson (Birmingham) The Virgin’s Dilemma
Ika Willis (Bristol) A New Life (Vita Nova)

Source : The Classical Association.