CONF: 6th Rethymnon International Conference on the Ancient Novel

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6th Rethymnon International Conference on the Ancient Novel

30-31 May 2011, Student Cultural Center ‘Xenia’

The Department of Philology (Division of Classics), University of Crete, is pleased to announce the organization and hosting of the 6th Rethymnon International Conference on the Ancient Novel on 30 and 31 May 2011 at the Student Cultural Center ‘Xenia’ (16 Sofokli Venizelou Street) in Rethymnon. The topic of RICAN 6 is:

‘Holy Μen/Women and Charlatans in the Ancient Novel’

PROGRAMME

Monday 30 May 6:00 p.m.

Maaike Zimmerman (Groningen), Chair

Ken Dowden (Birmingham): “The Lies of Tiresias: Authority and its Enemies”
Gareth Schmeling (Florida): “The Small World of the Holy Man: To Travel (work the lecture circuit) and To Tell Stories (act the part of someone who knows). A Beginning in the Satyrica”
Costas Panayotakis (Glasgow): “Encolpius and the Charlatans”
Ian Repath (Swansea): “Cleitophon the Charlatan”

Tuesday 31 May 10:00 a.m.

Patrizia Liviabella-Furiani (Perugia), Chair

Ewen Bowie (Oxford): “A Land without Priests? The Religious Roles of Philetas and Dionysophanes in Longus, Daphnis and Chloe”
Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser (Göttingen): “Fickle Coloured Religion: Priests or Performers in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses?”
Ilaria Ramelli (Milano): “Lucian’s Peregrinus as Holy Man and Charlatan, and the Construction of the Contrast between Holy Men and Charlatans in the Acts of Mari”
Alain Billault (Paris-Sorbonne): “Holy Man or Charlatan? The Case of Calasiris in Heliodorus’ Aithiopika”

Tuesday 31 May 6:00 p.m.

Silvia Montiglio (Johns Hopkins), Chair

Michael Paschalis (Crete): “The Philostratean Sophist as Proteus: Holy Man and Master of Deceit?”
Mario Andreassi (Bari): “Portrait of a Holy Man: Aesop in The Life”
John Morgan (Swansea): “The Monk’s Story: The Narrationes of Pseudo-Nilus of Ancyra”

Summation and Closing Remarks
by Silvia Montiglio

For further information please contact:
Michael Paschalis, michael.paschalis ATgmail.com
Stelios Panayotakis, panayotakis AT phl.uoc.gr

All welcome