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Conference: Poetic Language and Religion in Greece and Rome

Sponsored by Research Group Classical Philology – USC
Organizers: José Virgilio García Trabazo / Ángel Ruiz Pérez
Thursday, May 31st / Friday, June 1st 2012
Facultad de Filología. Universidad de Santiago. Santiago de Compostela
(Spain)

Thursday 05.31. 2012
PLENARY SESSION 9:30-10:20 José Luis García Ramón (Köln): Onomástica
religiosa en Grecia e Italia y lengua poética indoeuropea.

PANEL IA. Greek and Indoeuropean Religious Language
10:30-10:55 Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui (UCM): Deixis temporal en la poesía y
el ritual de la antigua Grecia
11:00-11:25 Joshua T. Katz (Princeton): Gods and Vowels
12:00-12:25 Jordi Redondo (Valencia): Algunos recursos lingüísticos en la
poesía indoeuropea y griega
12:30-12:55 Timothy Barnes (Harvard): Poetic syntax and the appellative
function of language in early Greek and Indo-Iranian: three examples
13:00-13:25 Henar Velasco López (Salamanca): Voces y lenguas de Allende

PANEL IB. Sacred Language / Divine Names
10:30-10:55 Francesco Paolo Bianchi (La Sapienza, Roma / Freiburg):
Linguaggio sacrale e commedia antica: l’esempio di Cratino
11:00-11:25 Maria Jennifer Falcone (Padova / Freiburg): Il linguaggio
sacrale nei frammenti tragici latini relativi a Medea
12:00-12:25 Francis M. Lazarus (Assumption College): Fortuna: Religious
Allusion and Poetic Expression in Roman Comedy
12:30-12:55 Colin Shelton (Newfoundland): Poetic Syncretism and Religious
Etymology
13:00-13:25 Jaime Siles (Valencia): Designaciones de Diana en Horacio, Carm.
III,22

PLENARY SESSION 16:00-16:50 Manuel García Teijeiro (Valladolid): La lengua
de los dioses y de los fantasmas

PANEL IIA. Greek Poetry
17:00-17:25 Jenny Strauss Clay (Virginia): Iliad 23 as Blueprint for Hero
Cult
17:30-17:55 Manuel Pérez López (Alcalá): El juramento de Aquiles en Il. 1,
236-244. Intertextualidad y pervivencia
18:30-18:55 Laura Swift (UC London): Parody of religious song in Greek
invective poetry
19:00-19:25 Chris Faraone (Chicago): Spoken and Written Boasts in the Getty
Hexameters: From Oral Composition to Inscribed Amulet
19:30-19:55 Agis Marinis (Patras): Pure worship in classical Greek poetry
(with emphasis on Pindar)
20:00-20:25 Elena Iaffe (Tel Aviv): Addressing the Gods in Chorus

PANEL IIB. Latin Poetry
17:00-17:25 Mathieu Minet (Louvain) Magical dimension of Poetry, poetical
dimension of Magics (Vergil, Eighth Eclogue)
17:30-17:55 Charles Bartlett (Harvard): Venus, Ceres, and Ovid. Divinity,
Knowledge, and the Generation of Poetry in Book IV of Ovid’s Fasti
18:30-18:55 Nathalie Sado Nisinson (New York University): Thesea devovi:
Magic, Ritual, and Heroes in Ovid’s Heroides
19:00-19:25 Fabio Guidetti (SNS Pisa): Manilius and imperial theology: an
interpretation of Astronomica 1,798-804
19:30-19:55 Carlos de Miguel Mora (Aveiro): Tiempo mítico y espacio real en
la poesía ovidiana del destierro
20:00-20:25 Arbia Hilali (Sfax, Tunisie): Langage poétique ou langage
religieux dans la légion, la IIIa Augusta en Afrique romaine

Friday 06.01. 2012
PLENARY SESSION 9:30-10:20 Alex Hardie (Edinburgh): The Roman Cult of the
Camenae

PANEL IIIA. Greek Religious Terminology
10:30-10:55 Ana Vegas Sansalvador (Köln): Dos epítetos de Zeus en Laconia a
la luz de la fraseología poética
11:00-11:25 Giulia Biffis (UC London): The cultic dimension in Lycophron’s
rewriting of myth: the case of Iphigeneia
12:00-12:25 Yolanda García López (Santiago): La lengua afilada de Calímaco y
los ascetas de Dodona
12:30-12:55 Esteban Calderón Dorda (Murcia): El concepto de religión en
Esquilo: reflexión terminológica
13:00-13:25 Josep Antoni Clúa Serena (Lleida): En torno al vocabulario
religioso helenístico (I): Thémis y Diké en Euforión y su hipotexto
hesiódico

PANEL IIIB Indoeuropean Tradition and Greece
10:30-10:55 Edwin D. Floyd (Pittsburgh): Ancient Linguistic and Religious
Elements in Kallimachos and Chrysorrhoe
11:00-11:25 Shane Hawkins (Carleton University Ottawa): Two Indo-European
Survivals in Hesiod
12:00-12:25 Óscar Manuel Bernao Fariñas (Valladolid): Rumpelstilzchen:
nombres tabuados y el lenguaje de los dioses
12:30-12:55 Daniel Kölligan (Köln): Tartaros in Greek mythology: etymology
and poetic language
13:00-13:25 Mary R. Bachvarova (Willamette): Whether you are in India,
Greece, Hattusa, Ugarit, or Nineveh…: The Supralocal Origins of Sapphic
Invocations.

PLENARY SESSION 16:00-16:50 Emilio Suárez de la Torre (Pompeu Fabra,
Barcelona): ¿Lengua poética o lengua religiosa? Sobre la interrelación de
poesía y ritual en la Grecia Antigua

PANEL IIIIA. Oracles, riddles, signs, curses
17:00-17:25 Jonathan L. Ready (Indiana): Messages from Zeus: A
Reconsideration of Analogical Omens in the Homeric Epics
17:25-17:55 Lucia Maddalena Tissi (Firenze): The late antique oracles:
samples of ἀσάφεια or σαφήνεια?
18:30-18:55 Kyriaki Konstantinidou (Istanbul): Oaths in Greek Drama: The
Case of Conversational Self-Curses
19:00-19:25 Claudia Zatta (Northwestern): Consulting the Gods in the Odyssey
19:30-19:55 Margaret Foster (Indiana): Talismanic Authority on the
Battlefield: Greek Seers and the Concept of Kûdos
20:00-20:25 Simone Beta (Siena): Oracles and riddles ambo fratres. Cultural
(and family) relations between oracula and aenigmata

PANEL IIIIB. Religious Hymns
17:00-17:25 Amedeo Alessandro Raschieri (Torino): Tradizionalismo poetico e
religioso in Avieno
17:30-17:55 Ichiro Taida (I-Shou, Taiwan): A Traditional Phrase about
Sunlight in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite
18:30-18:55 José B. Torres Guerra (Navarra): Plegaria e himno literario. Los
Dioscuros en las inscripciones de Prote, Alceo y dos Himnos Homéricos
19:00-19:25 Mark Alonge (Boston University): The Literary Character of Greek
Liturgical Hymns
19:30-19:55 José Manuel Vélez Latorre (Ourense): El himno de Adrasto a
Apolo, en la Tebaida de Estacio
20:00-20:20 Miriam Blanco (Valladolid): Los magos que cantaban a los dioses.
Religiosidad y poesía en los Himnos Mágicos griegos

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Iambus and Elegy Conference, 11th-13th July 2012

Full conference programme and registration information

The study of Greek elegy and iambus has been transformed in recent years by new papyrological finds, most notably the new Simonides elegy in 1992 and the new Archilochus elegy in 2005, while scholarship on early Greek poetry has made significant methodological advances over recent decades. Yet iambus and elegy have historically been sidelined as the lesser cousins of Greek lyric, while the impact of papyrological discoveries has not always been made apparent to those without the technical expertise to work directly on the texts. This international conference will be the first meeting to focus exclusively on iambus and elegy. Our aim is to foreground these metres as poetic forms in their own right, to explore what is distinctive about them, and to showcase recent research in this area.

Information about how to register for the conference can be found on our website at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/classics/news-and-events/iambus-and-elegy. The full programme is listed below. For more information, please contact l.swift AT ucl.ac.uk, or iambusandelegy AT gmail.com.

The conference organisers gratefully acknowledge the support of the Hellenic Society, the Leverhulme Trust, UCL FIGS, and UCL Greek and Latin Alumni.

Wednesday 11th July

5-6pm Opening keynote paper: ‘Iambos in the ancient historiography of literature’, Andrea Rotstein, Tel Aviv University

Thursday 12th July

Session 1: Elegiac performance

9.30-10.10 ‘Possible ritual contexts for the performance of early narrative elegy’, Ewen Bowie, University of Oxford

10.10-10.50 ‘Choral Elegy’, Cecilia Nobili, University of Milan

10.50-11.20 Coffee

11.20-12.00 ‘Anacreon and the elegiac symposium’, Elizabeth Jones, Stanford University

12.00-12.40 ‘Simonides and the elegy’, David Sider, New York University

Session 2: Voice and author in iambos

12.40-1.20 ‘Archilochean performance and the iambic poet-persona’, Don Lavigne, Texas Tech University

1.20-2.20 Lunch

2.20-3.00 ‘Archilochean imagery and poetic topoi’, Laura Swift, UCL/Open University

3.00-3.40 ‘Mythic narratives in Hipponax: the case of Heracles’, Margarita Alexandrou, UCL

3.40-4.20 ‘Overheard Iambics: Listening to Hipponax’, Deborah Boedeker, Brown University

4.20-4.50 Coffee

Session 3: Text and transmission

4.50-5.30 ‘Archilochus’ elegiac fragments: textual and exegetical notes’, Anika Nicolosi, University of Parma

5.30-6.10 ‘Writing Solon’, Antonio Aloni, University of Torino, and Alessandro Iannucci, University of Bologna

Friday 13th July

Session 4: Iambic interactions

9.00-9.40 ‘Toward a philosophy of parody: iambos and visual art’ Tom Hawkins, Ohio State University

9.40-10.20 ‘Iambos iatrikos: therapy and the ego in Archilochus’ elegies and iamboi’, Julia Nelson Hawkins, Ohio State University

Session 5: Elegy and epic

10.20-11.00 ‘Elegy and epic: a complex relationship’, Laura Lulli, University of L’Aquila

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-12.10 ‘Hesiod and elegy’, Richard Hunter, Cambridge University

Session 6: Classical intertexts

12.10-12.50 ‘Warding off a hailstorm of blood: Pindar on martial elegy’, Christopher Brown, University of Western Ontario

12.50-1.30 ‘Euenus’ “ship of fools” (8b, Theog. 667-82)’, Paula Correa, University of Sao Paolo

1.30-2.30 Lunch

Session 7: Hellenistic echoes

2.30-3.10 ‘Callimachus between elegy and iambus’, Giambattista D’Alessio, KCL

3.10-3.50 ‘What is iambic about Hellenistic literary epigrams?’, Maria Kanellou, UCL

3.50-4.20 Coffee

Session 8: Beyond the canon

4.20-5.00 ‘Tetrameters from Teos: Scythinus on Heraclitus and Apollo’, Tim Power, Rutgers

5.00-5.40 ‘Mapping iambos: mining the minor talents’, Chris Carey, UCL

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The Centre for Classical Studies at Yaroslavl State University (Russia) is currently conducting a web-conference «Ancient Civilization: Political Institutions and Legal Regulation» .

Everyone is welcome to read and comment (after easy registration) the following 15 papers:

PAPERS IN ENGLISH:

1. Giarelli L. “Res publica Camunnorum”: a small Roman Republic in the Alps.
2. Varga R. Constitutio Antoniniana. Law and Individual in a Time of Change.
3. Filonik J. Athenian Laws on Impiety – Some Notes on the Procedures.
4. Zacharski M. The Normative Aspect of the Concept of φύσις and the Origin of the Naturalistic Fallacy.

SUMMARIES OF THE PAPERS (full text is available in Russian):

1. Voloshin D. Gladiatorial Combats as Political Mass Spectacle and Instrument of “Social Training”.
2. Gouschin V. Ephialtes versus Areopagus.
3. Danilov E. Tranquility of the Soul in Interpretation of the Roman Citizens.
4. Dementyeva V. Die Legaten-Proquästoren in der Römischen Republik am Ende 3. Jh. -1 Jh. V. Chr.
5. Malyugin O. Administrative Division of Late Roman Britain and the Problem of the Province of Valentia in Anglo-American Historiography.
6. Nefedkin A. Recruitment and Organization of Cavalry in Aetolian League.
7. Nikolayev N. On Reconstruction of the Dedication Formula of the Olbian Molpoi
8. Surikov I. What was the Name of the Supreme Government Body in the Democratic Athenian Polis?
9. Frolov R. The Designations of the Roman Non-Voting Public Meetings in Livy’s Work: the contio and Its Derivatives
10. Tsimbal O. The Theoric Board in the System of Athenian Financial Offices in the 4th Century B.C.
11. Shmeleva L. The Formation of the ius fetiale in the Ancient Rome (8th-6th Centuries B.C.).

Approximately at the end of May it is planned to start preparation of the conference proceedings, where some of the comments may be included (by agreement with their authors) in order to present discussion of the papers in print form. However after the end of May the opportunity to submit new comments will be preserved.

All authors are informed of new comments to their papers. All messages are premoderated.

If you have any questions, please, contact us via this email address:

yar.antik.center AT gmail.com.

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Causing Health and Disease:
Medical Powers in Classical and Late Antiquity

International conference organized by the

Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologiesproject

21– 22 September 2012

Corpus Christi College

Rainolds room

Oxford

Invited Speakers

Roger Batty (Keio University, Tokyo)

Philip van der Eijk (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Jim Hankinson (University of Texas at Austin)

Brooke Holmes (Princeton University)

Geoffrey Lloyd (University of Cambridge)

Roberto Lo Presti (Università degli Studi di Palermo)

Popa Tiberiu (Butler University)

Barbara Zipser (Royal Holloway University of London)

Registration, accommodation and opening dinner

Registration is £10, but free for students.

Rooms in Corpus Christi College are available to those attending the conference. The cost is £49.50 per night (single occupation, with shared toilet facilities). Registration for rooms and shared meals will be available shortly via the online registration system, which will be accessible here.

Please also note that the conference will open with a dinner and program (details tbc) on the evening of 20th September. Participation

is open to all (the cost is £35, with space for 15 participants), and registration will also be available through the online system.

Graduate students seeking assistance with the costs of attending this conference may wish to apply to the The Thomas Wiedemann Memorial Fund. Its trustees are ‘particularly keen to support attendance by individuals or groups at seminars or conferences.’

Thanks are due to:

The Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity
The European Research Council

If you have a query about the conference, please email Anna Marmodoro at:
powers AT philosophy.ox.ac.uk

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Ancient Greek Myth and Modern Conflict in World Fiction since 1989

Thursday & Friday, 5 & 6 July 2012
The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH

This unprecedented conference will bring together a global team of
practising novelists and scholars to discuss the importance of ancient Greek
myths in the recent fictional narration of war. Novels from every continent
will be discussed, including works by Maori, Chinese, African, Brazilian and
Japanese authors. The conference will ask whether it is the very
difficulties involved in addressing
large-scale trauma that have elicited this new ‘mythical turn’ in the
medium; it will also explore the tensions involved in the use of canonical
ancient Greek texts central to the western ‘colonial’ curriculum in
selfconsciously anticolonial and postcolonial writing.

Convenor:
Professor Edith Hall, King’s College London, Classics

Timings:
9.30am-4.30pm, Thursday, 5 July 2012
9.30am-6.00pm, Friday, 6 July 2012

Fees:
Please note that there is a fee for this event:
£50 Standard fee
£25 Discounted rate for students, unemployed and retired delegates.

Places are limited and registration is essential. Please click here for a
copy of the programme and to register or visit our website:
www.britac.ac.uk/events.

Performance Event: Ancient Myth and the Modern Novel

5.00pm-7.30pm, followed by a reception
Thursday, 5 July 2012
The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH

This public event features talks by Tom Holland, a prominent author of both
history and fiction, including Persian Fire, Rubicon and Sleeper in the
Sand. He is also the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Making History. The other
speakers who will discuss the uses of Greek myth in fictional evocations of
modern conflict will include the Serbian Aleksandar Gatalica, whose Death of
Euripides addresses the tragic 20th-century history of eastern Europe.

The professional performance ensemble Live Canon and Friends will then
deliver selected highlights from novels by writers from all over the
worldwho have used ancient Greek myths in witnessing modern history,
including Salman Rushdie, Jonathan Littell, and Elizabeth Cook.

Attendance to the performance event only is free but places are limited and
regisration is essential. Please click here to register or visit our
website: www.britac.ac.uk/events. Please note that attendees for the
conference must register separately for the evening event.