* CONF: Ancient Greek Narrative

Seen on the Classicists list:

The seventh A. G. Leventis Conference in Greek will be held in the Playfair Library, Old College, University of Edinburgh from 27-30 October 2011. The conference is held in conjunction with Professor Ruth Scodel’s tenure of the Edinburgh Leventis Chair in Greek, and generously supported by the A. G. Leventis Foundation.

A draft programme is available at http://www.shc.ed.ac.uk/classics/TheSeventhA.G.LeventisConference.htm. Booking forms for registration and accommodation will shortly go live on the same page. All are welcome.

Speakers and titles are as follows:
Lucia Athanassaki, Greek Occasions, Greek Sung Narratives

Douglas Cairns, Exemplarity and Narrative in the Greek Tradition

Erwin Cook, Structure as Interpretation in the Homeric Odyssey

Pat Easterling, Narrative on the Tragic Stage

Stephen Halliwell, Narrative, Contingency, and the Limits of Understanding

Lisa Hau, Stock-events and Set-pieces: Greek Historiography as Variations on a Set of Themes

Johannes Haubold, Beyond Auerbach: the Poetics of Visualisation in the Gilgamesh Epic and Homer

Simon Hornblower, Herodotean Narrative

Richard Hunter, ‘Where do I begin?’ An Odyssean Strategy and its Afterlife

Irene de Jong, ‘If on a winter’s night a traveller’: Greek Heritage or Narrative Universal?

Adrian Kelly, Homeric Battle Narrative and the Ancient Near East

Nick Lowe, In Search of Narrative Universals

John Morgan, Heliodorus the Hellene

Andrew Morrison, Pamela and Plato: Ancient and Modern Epistolary Narratives

Damien Nelis, Untrodden Paths? Catullus 64, the Labyrinth and Hellenistic Narrative Forms

René Nünlist, Greek Scholia on Plot

Dennis Pausch, Livy Reading Polybius: Adapting Greek Narrative to Roman History

Alex Purves, Sappho: Narrative in Short Form

Patricia Rosenmeyer, Personal Narratives, Public Spaces: Autobiographical Inscriptions on the Memnon Colossus

Ruth Scodel, Narrative Focus and Elusive Thought in Homer

Meir Sternberg, Reticence and Redundancy in Ancient Narrative

Tim Whitmarsh, What’s Greek about the Greek novel?