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Leeds Classics Department Research Seminar

Wednesdays at 3pm
Room 101, Parkinson Building
University of Leeds

Semester 1

October 7th
Anthony Corbeill University of Kansas
Feminine Dust and Masculine Bark: Fluid Grammatical Gender in Latin Poetry

October 21st
Andreas Willi Worcester College, Oxford
The Rise of "Classical" Attic

October 28th
Bruce Gibson University of Liverpool
Frontinus and Aqueducts

November 4th
Roger Brock University of Leeds
Greek Political Imagery in the Fourth Century BC

November 11th
P.J. Cherian Director of the Kerala Council for Historical Research
Muziris and the Trade between India and Rome:
Archaeological Evidence from Pattanam, Kerala, India

November 18th
Peter Kruschwitz University of Reading
Just Look at this Mess!?
Linguistic Aspects of Latin Stone Inscriptions from Roman Britain

For more information, please contact Drs. Emma Stafford (e.j.stafford AT leeds.ac.uk) or Regine May (r.may AT leeds.ac.uk)

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Programme for workshop 5 in the AHRC series ‘The Romance Between Greece

and the East’:

October 17th, Corpus Christi College, Oxford (seminar room)

10.30-11.00 coffee (in hall)
11.00-12.00 Tim Whitmarsh, ‘Sex and violets: Ionia and the Greek
imaginaire’
12.00-1.00 Philip Mottram, ‘The World According to Chariton: Greeks,
Barbarians, Hybrids and Stereotypes’
1.00-2.00 Lunch
2.00-3.00 Bert Smith, ‘Narrative in the art of Aphrodisias’
3.00-4.00 Aldo Tagliabue, ‘Xenophon of Ephesus and his
multicultural ‘homeland’: traces of Greek, Roman and eastern elements’
4.00-4.15 Tea
4.15-5.00 Ewen Bowie, ‘Milesiaka’
5.00-5.30 Closing discussion

Details of this and other workshops available on the website
(www.classics.ox.ac.uk/romance), together with materials; note also the
draft programme for the conference on December 12th-13th (booking details
to follow).

Attendance at the workshop (including lunch) is free, but numbers are
limited. Please book your place by contacting Tim Whitmarsh
(tim.whitmarsh AT ccc.ox.ac.uk)

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Hermeneutics in the Ancient World

An international conference at the Institut für Judaistik and the
Orientalische Institut of Vienna University.

Vienna, 31.10. – 01.11.2009

Sponsord by the Vice rector of Vienna University Prof.Dr. A.
Mettinger, the dean of Faculty of Philological-Cultural Sciences
Prof.Dr. F. Römer, the dean of Faculty of Historical-Cultural Sciences
Prof. Dr. V.M. V. schwarz, and the Orientalische Gesellschaft Wien.

This workshop deals with the hermeneutic principles used in the
Ancient World from a comparative point of view. With case studies and
overviews of various genres and traditions of the Ancient World,
ranging from Egypt to Mesopotamia, Anatolia and Ancient Greece we
eventually hope to gain deeper insights in the coherence and the
diversity of these literary traditions. 1

Note: both institutes are within one minute walking distance.

Saturday, 31.10.2009

At the Institut für Judaistik Wien

18:30- 18:35 Opening of the conference and welcome by A. Lange and GJ Selz

(after sunset)
18:35-20:05 Public Lectures at the Institut für Judaistik:
Jack M. Sasson (Paris, Nashville TN): Between Hermeneutics: A
Biblical Text in Changing Interpretations
George J. Brooke (Manchester): The Hermeneutics of the Dead Sea
Scrolls: The Qumran Pesharim in Context
20.15 Small reception at the Institut für Judaistik

Sunday, 01.11.2009

Morning sessions: at the Oriental Institute
Session I:

The Ancient Near East I
Chair: P. Damerow (asked)
9:30-10:00 G.J. Selz (Wien): Remarks on Mesopotamian Hermeneutics of
the 3rd Millennium
10:00-10:30 Stefano di Martino (Trieste): Divinatory Hermeneutics in
the Hittite World
10:20-11:00 Stefan Maul (Heidelberg): Telling the Future: Thoughts on
the Status of Divination in the Ancient Near East
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
Session II:

The Ancient Near East II
Chair: Michael Jursa
11:30-12:00 Mark Geller (London): The Hermeneutics of
Babylonian Medical Commentaries
12:00-12:30 Hermann Hunger (Wien): Hermeneutics in Celestial Omen
Texts from Mesopotamia
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break
Afternoon session at Institut für Judaistik
Session III:

Egypt and the Classical World
Chair: George Brooke (asked)
14:00-14:30 Sidney Aufrère (Montpelier): The Hermeneutics of
Late Ancient Egyptian Literature: Thot as Hermeneutes
14.30-15.00 Bernhard Palme (Wien): The Serapeum Papyri – Dream
Divination and Hermeneutics in Ptolemaic Egypt
15:00-15:30 Zlatko Plese (Chapel Hill (NC) and Zagreb):
Rhetoric and Exegesis in Alexandrian Scholarship
15:30-16:00 Evelyne Krummen (Graz): Poetic and Philosophical
Hermeneutics from Archaic to Hellenistic Times
16:00 -16.20 Coffee Break

Session IV:

The Classical World and Ancient Judaism
Chair: Klaus Davidovic
16:20-16:50 A. Lange (Wien): Artapanus and the Hermeneutics of Jewish
Acculturation
16.50-17.20 Bernhard Dolna (Wien): Philo’s Interpretation of the
Figure of Moses
17:20-17:50 Gerhard Langer(Salzburg): Hermeneutics in Rabbinic Midrash
17:50-18:20 Hermann Lichtenberger (Tübingen): Canonical and
Extracanonical Literature in Early Christianity
Public Lecture at the Oriental Institute :
19:30- 20:15 Wilfred G. Lambert (Birmingham)
The Development of Babylonian Hermeneutics and its Aftermath
Reception at the Oriental Institute:
20:30 Reception (sponsored by the Vice-Rector of the
University of Vienna)

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TWO BOSTON AREA LECTURES:

“The Cult of Divine Birth in Ancient Greece”
Presenter: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Ph.D.

1) A Fall 2009 James C. Loeb Lecture, sponsored by the Department of
the Classics at Harvard University
DATE: Friday, October 16, 2009
TIME: 5 p.m.; free and open to the public
PLACE: Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard, Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA. This is located just off Massachusetts
Avenue in Harvard Square; see map at http://map.harvard.edu/level3.cfm?mapname=&tile=F7&quadrant=C&series=N

. Note also that this will be the start of the Head of the Charles
weekend celebration, so please allow enough time for navigating and
parking.

2) Public lecture sponsored by the Women’s Studies Research Center at
Brandeis University
DATE: Tuesday, October 20, 2009
TIME: 12:30 ~ about 2 p.m. (lecture is 50 mins. followed by Q&A);
free and open to the public
PLACE: Lecture Hall at the Women’s Studies Research Center, Brandeis
University, 515 South Street, Waltham, MA

DESCRIPTION OF TALKS:

Ancient Greek lore is filled with unusual stories of women bearing the
children of gods, of the impregnating power of snakes and deities in
the healing cult of Asclepius, of the divine conceptions of historical
figures, of the basilinna’s yearly sexual rite with Dionysus –– and
more. In this provocative lecture, Marguerite Rigoglioso, author of
the pioneering book The Cult of Divine Birth in Ancient Greece,
provides evidence that such tales reflect the existence of actual
cultic practices in which holy virgins were once believed to be active
seekers in miraculously conceiving those who would become the
political and spiritual leaders of Greek civilization. The work
suggests virgin priestesses may have been considered far more central
to the founding of Greek culture than ever imagined, and has
provocative implications for the study of the Virgin Mary

For more information on The Cult of Divine Birth in Ancient Greece,
visit http://cultofdivinebirth.com

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Below is a the programme for OIKOS FAMILIA The Family in Antiquity: Framing the discipline in the 21st Century.

For more information and registration forms please contact: arachne AT class.gu.se

You can also contact us directly: Mary Harlow m.e.harlow AT bham.ac.uk Ray Laurence r.laurence AT bham.ac.uk Lena Larsson Loven lena.larsson AT class.gu.se

Programme
THURSDAY 5th NOVEMBER

14.00 Registration opens
15.00 Opening of the conference and Welcome

Opening keynote lecture Mark Golden (Winnipeg): The future of the Ancient Greek Family

15.45 – 16.15: Coffee

Session I: The construction of kinship: Methods and Texts

Saskia Hin Building States, Building Families:
Birgitta Leppänen Sjöberg: Classical oikos as site for intersectionality
Ann-Cathrin Harders: Beyond domus and oikos: kinship studies
Emily Varto: The Classical Prototypes of Kinship

Session II: Marriage and Children – a family’s hope for the future or a disappointment

Keynote address: Christian Laes: Disabled children in Gregory of Tours

Maria Constantinou: The Dissolution of Marriage: evidence from marriage contracts and divorce documents in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt
Jayne Draycott: Healthcare at home in Roman Egypt
Rebecca Gowland & Rebecca Redfern: Childhood Health at the core and periphery of Roman world

FRIDAY 6TH NOVEMBER

Session III: Visualising the Ancient Family

Amalia Avramidou: Depictions of women and children pre-classical Corinth
Sandra Karlsson: Family images in Hellenistic funerary art
Jason Manders: Mors Immatura. Portraits of Children on Roman Funerary monuments
Margherita Carucci: Visualising daughters in the Roman Family
Jeannine Uzzi Ethnicity and Sexuality: the non-Roman family and the Roman gaze

Session VI: Religion and the Family

William Bubelis: Not the Oikos: Priesthoods and Succession in Classical Athens
Nicholas Kalospyros: Towards the Allegory of the Oikos: The family and cognates in Philo Judaeus
Katariina Mustakallio:The Sacred Couple in the Roman Context
Outi Sihvonen Vestal Virgins – Members of Two Different Families?
K.B. Neutal: Importance of Familia to Paul and his audience

Session V Commemoration of Family Members in the Roman West

Key note address: Maureen Carroll:“No part in earthly things”. The death, burial and commemoration of newborns and infants in Roman Italy

Linnéa Johansson:The Cult of the Genius as a Way of Commemoration
Francesco Trifilò: Vixit Annis: Regional Patterns and Commemoration
Sabine Armani Nieces and Nephews in Inscriptions from the Western Provinces of the Roman Empire

12.00 -13.30 LUNCH

Session VI The Greek Family

Florence Gherchanoc :Birth festivals in classical Athens
Elke Hartmann: The Concept of the Kyreia in Classical Athens
Agnieszka Kotlińska-Toma: Woman as the Pillar of the Family in Greek Funerary Epigrams
Sara Saba: Family and City Policy
Brenda Griffiths-Williams: Continuity and Conflict in Athenian Inheritance disputes

Session VII Female roles in the Roman family

Marja-Leena Hänninen: Gender, age and status in the Roman wedding
Karen Hersch: Not on the guest list: changing conceptions of the Roman family nuptial riutal
Dimitrios Mantzilas: Laudationes Mulierum as a source for the Roman Family
Pamela Johnston: Family Advisory Councils in the Roman Republic
Hanne Sigismund Nielsen: Who invented the univira?

Session VIII Greek and Roman childhood and adolescence

Mark Golden: Other People’s Children
Evrydiki Tasopoulou When Animals Show the Way: parenting and the emotional development of children in Classical Greece
Judit Pásztókai-Szeöke: Mother shrinks and child grows
Janette McWilliam : Aesthetics of Violence and Representations of Roman Children
Claude-Emanuell Challet Centlivres: Youth in Pliny the Younger: Traditional Gender Roles and Beyond

17.15 Keynote lecture Natalie Kampen (New York): Pompeian Painting and Domestic Emotions

18.00 Wine reception

SATURDAY 7th November

Session IX Roman and Early Medieval Family: across the generations

Liz Gloyn: Our House is a Very, Very, Very Fine House: The Family as a Philosophical Ideal in Seneca
Ville Vuolanto: Grandmothers and familial power in late antiquity
Emma Southon: Fatherhood in Late Antique Gaul
Photis Vasilou: The Brother-father and sister-mother: biological and constructed relationships in the works of Gregory of Nyssa
Eve Davies: The Life Course and the Family in the Byzantine Empire
Chris Callow: The family from late antiquity to early medieval west 300-600

Session X Agency, economics and domesticity

Justin Walsh: Artefact assemblages and human agency in ancient house
Lindsay Penner: Female workers in aristocratic Roman Columbaria
Lovisa Brännstedt: Familia urbana of Livilla Drusilla
John Starks: Actresses and the Roman family
Anna Sparreboom: Wet-Nursing in the Roman Empire
April Pudsey: Widows and familial networks in Roman Egypt

Session XI Dynastic, powerful Hellenistic and Roman families

Omar Coloru Family dynamics in Seleucid dynasty
Agneta Fulinska: Family Ties in Dynastic Propaganda of the Ptolemies
Jesper Carlsen: The Ahenobarbi and Calvini in Late Republican and Augustan Rome
David Salvo: The use of betrothals, marriages, divorces in the making on an imperial dynasty: the case of the Julio- Claudian dynasty
Gwyneath McIntyre: The creation of a dynasty: Adoption and deification in the Antonine family
Shaun Tougher: Imperial blood: Family relationships in the dynasty of Constantine the Great

12.30 – 14.00 LUNCH

Session XII Etruscan and Pre-Roman Family

Key note addres: Marjatta Neilsen: Etruscan familes – the deand and the living
Jenny Högström Berntson: Women, Children and Votives in Magna Graecia
Elisa Perego: Iron Age and early Roman Veneto
Rafael Scopacasa: Familial Segregation and Communal Drinking in Ancient Appenine Italy

Session XIII Families in Greek literature and drama

Tom Garvey: The House of Nestor
James O’Maley: Homosphrosyne in the Odyssey
Aspasia Skouroumoni: Inside and Out: The Dynamics of Domestic Space in Euripides’ Andromache
Dimitira Kokkini: Euripides Heracles Mainomeons: Domesticating the litmate hero

Session XIV Family members and politics in ancient texts

Sophia Panaretou: Who was Brauro?
Bryan Natali: Infelix Dido, nun te facta impía tangunt? Putting Dido in her political Context
Ida Östenberg: Killing Fathers: The title Pater Patriae and the deaths of Cicero and Caesar
Nani Moro: Violence and Maltreatment in the Roman Family: The Case of Tiberius Claudius

16.30. – 17.00 Concluding summary: Framing the discipline in the 21st century.

18.30 Concluding Dinner