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COLLOQUIUM ON GREEK AND ROMAN NOVEL
MAY 26, 2011, Room 201A, 11AM
The Department of Classics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki is pleased to announce the organization of a colloquium on the Ancient Novel to be held on Thursday, May 26 2011, in Room 201A, at 10.00 am. The topic of this colloquium will be:
Greek and Roman Novel: Narrative Tensions, Plot and Themes
PROGRAM
Genre, Ideology and Motifs, Chair: Prof. Antonios Rengakos
Prof. David Konstan (Brown, Emeritus; New York University): “Erôs and Oikos.”
Prof. Marília P. Futre Pinheiro (University of Lisbon): “Satire and Philosophy in Lucian.”
Prof. Silvia Montiglio (Johns Hopkins University): “The Call of Blood: Greek Origins of a Motif, from Euripides to Heliodorus.”
Ass. Prof. Maria Plastira Valkanou (Aristotle University): “Lampon’s Episode in Xenophon’s Ephesiaca.”
Break
Petronius and Apuleius, Chair: Prof. Katharina Volk
Prof. John Hilton (University of KwaZulu-Natal): “The Theme of Shipwreck on (In)hospitable Shores in Acts, the Satyricon, Leucippe and Clitophon and the Aethiopica.”
Prof. Gareth Schmeling (University of Florida): “Size Matters: It is the Little Things that Count in Petronius’ Satyrica.”
Prof. Stephen J. Harrison (Corpus Christi, Oxford): “Interpreting the anteludia: Apuleius Met.11.8.”
For further information please contact: Stavros Frangoulidis (frangoulidis AT gmail.com)
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