The Classical Association annual conference The University of Nottingham Sunday 13 — Wednesday 16 April 2014 Welcome Inside Officers of the Classical Association President Hon. Treasurer Classics was among the first subjects taught at University College, The Department comprises an energetic and lively community Nottingham, which became The University of Nottingham when it of 15 permanent members of staff (of whom 14 have arrived Ms Martha Kearney Mr Philip Hooker Welcome 3 received its Royal Charter in 1948. Past Heads of the Department since 1999), over 30 postgraduate students, and about 400 include Frank Granger, Professor of Classics and Philosophy, undergraduate students. Chair of Council Outreach Officer 1893-1936, Edward Thompson, Professor of Classics, 1948- Professor R. K. Gibson (University of Dr Kathryn Tempest (Roehampton 1979 and Wolfgang Liebeschuetz, Professor of Classics and Nottingham is home to the Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Highlights 3 Manchester) University) Ancient History, 1979-1992. Studies, the Centre for Ancient Drama and its Reception and the Hon. Secretary Affiliated Associations’ Officer Centre for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies; members of staff Professor Liebeschuetz still attends (and gives) research seminars also collaborate in the Nottingham Institute for Research into Visual Dr E. J. Stafford (University of Leeds) Mrs Barbara Finney Travel and directions 3 and is often to be seen cycling around Nottingham. Thomas Culture, Nottingham University Urban Culture Network and the Wiedemann, Head of Department from 1997 until January Flavian Epic Network. Excursions and 2001, died on 28 June 2001, aged only fifty-one. Professor 4 Conference Organising Committee, Wiedemann was particularly known for his work on gladiators The research undertaken by members of the Department is wide- Roundtables The University of Nottingham and on slavery; while at Nottingham he founded the University’s ranging; recently published books include major critical editions Institute for the Study of Slavery. The Wiedemann Fund, which with commentary of Tacitus’ Annals book eleven and Sophocles’ helps postgraduates with travel expenses, was established in his Ajax, an analysis of the images and monuments set up by near- Meals and refreshments 4 Organiser Programme Committee memory. eastern dynasts in antiquity, an investigation into the gaze in Dr Helen Lovatt Dr Esther Eidinow classical epic, and a detailed study of Cicero’s Pro Milone. Dr Betine van Zyl Smit Today, the Department is part of the School of Humanities, which Conference programme 6 Treasurer Dr Andreas Kropp comprises Archaeology, Art History, Classics, History, Music, Dr Richard Rawles Philosophy, and Theology and Religious Studies; in 2011 it moved Administration into a dedicated Humanities Building. Roundtable, panels, Chair of Programme Committee Mr Nick Wilshere 8 Dr Mark Bradley Miss Nikki Rollason speakers and papers Mr Will Leveritt Advertising Exhibitors 18 Dr Philip Davies Conference highlights

• the Presidential Address, delivered by Martha Kearney, • the conference dinner at Colwick Hall (Lord Byron’s ancestral presenter of The World at One on Radio 4 home), with a champagne reception and after-dinner dancing For queries relating to bursaries, For queries relating to paper Maps 26 • two interactive plenary sessions on ‘The spatial turn’, consisting • a broad programme of social activities, including receptions payments or conference bookings bookings and all other conference of two twenty minute papers followed by discussion: on Sunday and Monday evenings, an evening excursion to visit made online: related queries: • ‘Touching Space: Turning on the Limits of Word and Image’, pubs in the city centre, and an exhibition of student projects featuring Dr Alex Purves (UCLA) and Dr Katharina Lorenz • the opportunity to see and handle a wide variety of Roman Claire Davenport CA2014 Photography policy (Nottingham) artefacts held by The University of Nottingham Museum The Classical Association Department of Classics • ‘The Ancient City’, featuring Dr Penelope Davies (University of • optional excursions on Tuesday afternoon to: Park House University of Nottingham The CA and the Department of Classics of The University Texas at Austin) and Dr Kostas Vlassopoulos (Nottingham) • Southwell Minster and Archbishop’s Palace (with talk by Dr 15-23 Greenhill Crescent Humanities Building of Nottingham plan to take photographs at the CA 2014 • over 60 panels of papers, with a mix of established and junior Will Bowden, Department of Archaeology) Watford University Park Conference and may reproduce them on CA and The researchers from all over the world, addressing a broad range • Kedleston Hall (led by Rebecca Usherwood, PhD student, WD18 8PH Nottingham University of Nottingham websites and in marketing or of topics related to the ancient world, from the fragments of Department of Classics) UK NG7 2RD promotional materials. Roman historians, to tragedy on the small screen and new • a free walking tour of Wollaton Hall and Deer Park led by t: +44 (0)1923 239 300 t: +44 (0)115 846 6438 directions in e-learning Peter Davies, PhD student, Department of Classics, with By participating in the CA Conference, attendees e: [email protected] e: [email protected] • eight round-table discussions on Tuesday afternoon on (among talk by Dr Gabriele Neher, Department of Art History acknowledge these activities and grant the CA and the other things) outreach, impact, post-graduate training, teaching Department of Classics the right to use their images and and research names for such purposes. Membership information Contact information Speakers and delegates are encouraged to join The Classical Association. Travel and directions w: tiny.cc/UoNCAC CA members receive CA News twice a year, and a copy of the Presidential w: classicalassociation.org/conference.html Address. The conference is taking place on the beautiful University Park The University of Nottingham Museum, located in the Lakeside Campus. For directions, visit the University website at: Arts Centre (50) will be open throughout the conference, twitter: @CAconf2014 They can also subscribe to the Association’s journals, Greece & Rome, The tiny.cc/UoNMaps. Sunday Noon-4pm and weekdays 11am-5pm. It will also be hashtag: #CA14 Classical Quarterly, and The Classical Review, at reduced rates. opening exclusively on Monday and Wednesday 9am-11am Plenary lectures will take place in the Coates Road Auditorium, for delegates to examine and handle some of the museum’s t: Helen (or conference desk) 07779 185 094 Publishers such as Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press and panels will be either there or in the Pope Building. The collection of Roman artefacts. For these sessions, access to the t: Nick Wilshere 07428 926 726 offer reduced prices on books to CA members. campus map at the back of this booklet highlights the Coates museum will be via the museum entrance only, rather than via the For more information contact: Road Auditorium (51), and the Pope Building (27) as well as Djanogly Art Gallery. Please look out for our student volunteers, wearing The Classical Association Cripps Hall (purple) and Hugh Stewart Hall (purple), which are conference t-shirts, who will be available to Park House providing accommodation. Both halls are a five-minute walk Parking is available at the halls, with free parking permits provide assistance throughout the conference. 15-23 Greenhill Crescent away from the Pope Building; it is another five minutes from there available from reception for conference delegates. Watford to the Coates Road Auditorium. WD18 8PH Cover illustration from ‘Three’, a comics-series by Kieron Gillen t: +44 (0)1923 239 300 for which Stephen Hodkinson (Nottingham) served as historical e: [email protected] consultant. w: www.classicalassociation.org

2 3 Excursions and roundtables

Roundtable discussions and excursions will take place at the is most famous for having one of the largest collections of neo- same time on Tuesday afternoon. For details of the roundtable classical sculpture in Britian. The site also provides a pleasant discussions, see Panel programme. opportunity to wander around a fairly untouched example of an 18th century ‘pleasure garden’ containing a fishing room, pheasant The excursions to Southwell Minster and Kedleston Hall will begin house and orangery. A cream tea is included in the price of the at 1pm and packed lunches will be provided. The excursion to excursion. Nottingham PhD student, Rebecca Usherwood, will Wollaton Hall will begin at 2pm. The excursion to Southwell may lead the tour. not allow enough time for those on it to attend the CA AGM. The booking fee includes travel (where applicable) and entrance fees, Wollaton Hall and a cream tea at Kedleston Hall. Designed by Robert Smythson — who is often named as England’s first architect — Wollaton represents one of the most important Southwell Minster examples of early Neo-Classical architecture in England. Smythson Postgraduate study Southwell lies about 15 miles northeast of Nottingham. The is perhaps more famous for sites such as Hardwick Hall and Minster is built over an important Roman villa site and wall-painting Longleat House and his designs play with the deeply extravagant from the villa displayed in the minster has been described by view of the classical world held by the educated elite of his time. Martin Henig as “one of the very best examples from Roman The grounds feature herds of red and fallow deer and the hall now in Classics Britain”. The Minster itself is a fine example of the Early English contains a gloriously antiquarian and macabre collection of stuffed style and is famous for its realistic carvings of leaves and plants. animals. This relaxing walking tour will begin with an informative Will Bowden (Associate Professor in Roman Archaeology) has talk by Dr Gabriele Neher, from the University’s Department of Art The Department of Classics has the resources and close connections with the Minster and will lead a guided tour, History, and will be led by Nottingham PhD student Pete Davies. expertise to support high calibre postgraduate study. as well as offering a one-off opportunity to look around the We provide a supportive and friendly environment with Archbishop’s Palace. There will also be a chance for tea and cake For further details on these excursion venues, see the links on the at the Old Theatre. conference website: tiny.cc/UoNCAC dedicated working space, teaching opportunities, research and postgraduate seminars, conferences and workshops. Kedleston Hall This stunning 18th century home, now run by the National Trust, is set in the beautiful rolling countryside of south Derbyshire. The Taught courses are available one year full-time or two years Hall, designed internally to mimic aspects of Roman villae rusticae, part-time: • MA Ancient History • MA Classical Literature Meals and refreshments • MA Visual Culture of Classical Antiquity

Tea and coffee is available in the Pope Building during conference On Tuesday evening the Presidential Address will be followed by All our courses contain: breaks. coaches to transport you to Colwick Hall Hotel (approximately 20 • a core module to develop research skills minutes), where a reception will be followed by the Association Lunches Dinner, the award of the CA Prize, and dancing. • thematic modules on subjects such as The Ancient City Self-service lunches will take place in the dining rooms of Cripps or War and its Representations and Hugh Stewart halls. To avoid excessive queuing, the timings of Coaches will return to University Park from 10.30pm onwards • the opportunity to study a professional development panels will be staggered. roughly every half-hour until 1am. The price of the dinner includes venue, transport, drink on arrival, dinner, approximately two bottles module such as 'Museums Today' or 'Outreach in the Receptions of wine per table, and after-dinner entertainment. A bar will also be classroom' On Sunday evening there will be a drinks reception in Trent Great available. • the opportunity to study an ancient or modern language Hall (a 10 minute walk from the Coates Road Auditorium); on Monday evening the drinks reception will take place in the bar of Conference meeting bar • a dissertation on your topic of choice Hugh Stewart Hall. On Sunday and Monday night, bars will be open in both Cripps and Hugh Stewart halls after dinner until 1am. We also offer supervision for doctoral research with Dinners On Sunday and Monday evenings dinner will take place in the strengths in: dining rooms of Cripps and Hugh Stewart halls. • Greek drama • Greek political, social, economic and religious history • Latin epic and prose literature • Roman history, society and culture • the classical world in European culture

To find out more about Classics postgraduate opportunities at Nottingham, visit www.nottingham.ac.uk/classics

To find out more on the range of funding available including AHRC studentships awarded as part of the Midlands 3Cities Consortium: www.midlands3cities.ac.uk

4 5pm-6.45pm Welcome, Alan Ford, PVC, University of Nottingham Programme Plenary session 2: The Ancient City, Coates Rd Auditorium Kostas Vlassopoulos (Nottingham) ‘The ancient Greek city and the wider world’ Sunday 13 April Penelope Davies (University of Texas at Austin) ‘A city apart: Reading Republican Rome From 1.30pm Registration and tea, Cripps Hall in isolation’ 1.30pm-3pm CA Finance Committee, Cripps Library Chair: Nicholas Purcell (Oxford) 3pm-5pm CA Council Meeting, Cripps Library 7pm-8pm Reception, Hugh Stewart Hall, Bar and JCR 5.30pm Opening of conference and plenary session 1, Coates Rd Auditorium 8pm Dinner, Cripps and Hugh Stewart halls Touching Space: Turning on the limits of Word and Image 9pm-1am Bars, Cripps and Hugh Stewart halls Alex Purves (UCLA) and Katharina Lorenz (Nottingham) Chair: Sheila Murnaghan (Pennsylvania) Tuesday 15 April 7pm Reception, Trent Building, Great Hall 7am-9am Breakfast, Cripps and Hugh Stewart halls 8pm Dinner, Cripps and Hugh Stewart halls 9am-11am Session 4: Nine four-paper panels 9pm-1am Bars, Cripps and Hugh Stewart halls 9.30pm Optional Excursion to Historic Nottingham Pubs, meet in Cripps Hall Bar Pope A17 Coates Rd Pope C14 Pope A1 Pope C1 Pope C15 Pope C16 Pope A21 Pope A22 Monday 14 April Sparta I: New Pollution and Multi-faceted Ovid Visual Onscreen Education The Eastern 7am-9am Breakfast, Cripps and Hugh Stewart halls Spartiatai Directions Impurity Lucian Language Receptions and Classics Client States in Roman on Painted 9am-11am Artefact Handling Session, The University of Nottingham Museum Histor- Pottery 9am-11am Session 1: Nine four-paper panels iography Daszuta Marincola Lennon Whitmarsh Flanders Waite Paul Costa Gregoratti Pope A21 Coates Rd Pope C14 Pope A22 Pope C15 Pope C16 Pope C1 Pope A1 Pope A17 Hodkinson Pitcher North Ehrenfeld Scheidegger Porter Cyrino da Vela Seland Radical Slavery and Roman Late Antique Deception Reception Visual Fiction and Emotions Lämmle Re- its Sources Bodies I Narrative in Classical and Narrative Reception in Greek imaginings Oratory and Sophocles’ Warfare Davies Malloch Miano Wilshere Robertson Smith and Fear Foster Almagor of Tragic Historiogra- Ajax Volioti Figures phy Whalen Discussion Rasmussen Mossman Goddard Rodríguez- Augoustakis Kirk MacLennan Geller Osborne Meister Morgan Kremmydas Murnaghan O’Bryhim Jackson Sanders Pérez

Cormack McKeown Cook Bossu Winter Mitchell- James Lord- Herman 11am-11.30am Tea and coffee, Pope A13/14 Boyask Kambitsch 11.30am-1/1.30pm Session 5: Nine three- to four-paper panels Pistone Vlassopoulos Maxwell Taveirne Edwards McConnell Lubian Giannopoulou Crowley

McCauley Lewis Vout Trzaskoma Tempest Cole Rühl Kahane Konstan Pope A17 Pope A21 Pope A1 Pope C14 Coates Rd Pope C15 Pope C16 Pope C1 Pope A22 (discussion) Sparta II: Mythography Leadership Iconography Talking About Tragic Across the Teaching Greek Beyond the Issues and Narrative Laughter Performance Border Oratory in/as 11am-11.30am Tea and coffee, Pope A13/14 Spartiatai Performance 11.30am-1/1.30pm Session 2: Nine three- to four-paper panels Davies Konstantinou Mantzouranis Lorenz Carter Skourouni Keen Kerr Harris

Pope A17 Coates Rd Pope C14 Pope C16 Pope C15 Pope C1 Pope A22 Pope A1 Pope A21 Villafane Smith Wallace Bossert Miles Weiss Gloyn Bragg Worman Assuming the Slavery II Roman Dealing with Thinking Out of the Plato and New Comparative Martinez Iakovou Rich Leveritt Kozak Boyd Harrisson Krohn Edwards Supernatural Bodies II Defeat in about the ‘Deep, Dark Aristotle Approaches Approaches Bocksberger McAuley Serafim Republican Divine Dell’: A Panel to eLearning Rome on Latin in Classics 1 1pm-2pm Lunch, Cripps and Hugh Stewart halls Metre 1pm/2pm-5pm Session 6: Roundtables and excursions Hitch Canevaro Bradley Östenberg Sommerstein Henriksén Di Dio Natoli Almohanna Eidinow Thomas Draycott van der Blom OKell Morgan Silva Mahony Jim Times Pope C1 Pope A21 Pope A1 Pope A22 Pope A17 Pope C14 Bowden Bathrellou Davies Russell Lyons Ohrman Mitchell Pike Zhao 2pm-3.15pm How to integrate Teaching and Storytelling Defining Classical The Future of The Digital Loeb Stringer Nichols Flower Hunt Classics in Learning About and Historical Scholarship: Postgraduate Project Communities: The Ancient Religion Authenticity in a The Research/ Training and Skills (Sharmila Sen, Government’s (Deacy and Visual Medium: Teaching Interface Development Loeb Classical 1pm/1.30pm- Primary Education Eidinow) the comics- (Eaton) (Liveley) Library) 2.30pm/3.00pm Lunch, Cripps and Hugh Stewart halls Reforms and their series 'Three' 2.30pm/3pm-4.30pm Session 3: Nine three- to four-paper panels Impact on Classics (Fotheringham) Cartlidge Hilder (Musié and Bracke) Lloyd Malik Trentin Carter Pope A21 Coates Rd Pope C14 Pope A17 Pope C15 Pope C1 Pope A22 Pope C16 Pope A1 3.30pm-4.45pm Does Research on International Broadcasting Sulaiman McHardy the Ancient Past Teaching Greece (Wrigley Reincarnation Transform- Poetry Worth Refracting Natoli Lowe have a Future in UK Collaborations and and Hobday) in India and ations in Lamenting The Great Liveley in Greece Imperial War Media? (Archibald) Research-driven Power Teaching (Lorenz and Kingship Fynes Underwood Giusti Cognitive Cult Seleukid Nelson eLearning in Leveritt) Memory in Space Classics 2 Epic Poetry 4.30pm-5pm Tea and coffee, Pope A13/14 Raynor Seaford Usherwood Zanoni Hanson McLardy Grigolin Flack Lloyd and 5pm-5.45pm Classical Association AGM, Pope C15 Robson 6pm-7pm Presidential Address, Coates Rd Auditorium Shannahan Allen Doyle Tsaknaki Privitera Millington Holton Scourfield Nevin 7pm-7.30pm Coaches to Colwick Hall and Reception Gala dinner, Moloney Green Taylor Gibson Sanborn Carrington Visscher Vandiver Reinhard 7.30pm-1am including award of the CA Prize and musical entertainment 10.30pm-1am One bar open in either Cripps or Hugh Stewart Hall 4.30pm-5pm Tea and coffee, Pope A13/14

6 7 Wednesday 16 April The Digital Loeb Project Delegates staying in Cripps or Hugh Stewart Halls must hand in their keys before 10am, but will be able to store their luggage. Convener and chair: Sharmila Sen (Loeb Classical Library)

7am-9am Breakfast, Cripps and Hugh Stewart halls The Loeb Classical Library, founded by James Loeb in 1911, has from the very beginning fostered its stated mission to make classical 9am-11am Artefact Handling Session, University of Nottingham Museum Greek and Latin literature accessible to the broadest range of readers. The digital Loeb Classical library extends this mission for readers 9am-11am Session 7: Nine four-paper panels of the 21st-century. Harvard University Press is honored to renew James Loeb’s vision of accessibility and with the introduction of the digital Loeb Classical Library presents an interconnected, fully searchable, perpetually growing, virtual library of all that is important in Pope C15 Pope C1 Pope A1 Coates Rd Pope C14 Pope A17 Pope A21 Pope C16 Pope A22 Greek and Latin literature.

Professionals Approaching Ethics The Catullus Receptions Performance Legacies The Cosmos Does Research on the Ancient Past have a Future in UK Media? in Antiquity Hellenism and Late Augustan of Homer and of Reception of Greek and its Republican (R)evolution Virgil Political Creatures Convener and chair: Zosia Archibald (Liverpool) Politics Thought in Contributors: Dan Stewart (Leicester) America Ancient history and Classical archaeology seem to be more popular than ever in the British media. Yet at the heart of this success is a Harris Coward Morrell Peck Spelman Oergel Athanasopou- Cole Park lou failure of nerve. The focus of much popular output is well known material. There are real attempts to engage with contemporary research on antiquity, but a good deal of what is researched in UK universities never reaches the wider public. Is this because media investors are Koenig Veitch Stone Mackenzie Cowan Franzoni Wrigley Monoson Zinn afraid of putting out content that is considered 'difficult'? Is it because researchers can't manage (for a variety of reasons) to get their Stewart Morton Welch Rowan Kiss Canevaro Ryan Sawyer Buglass material noticed? Do UK university strategists think that our research isn't worth showcasing? This panel invites as wide an audience as Letts Lawrence Spoerri Lewis Williams Budzowska Bloxham Jackson the CA can attract to discuss this topic. Butcher International Teaching Collaborations and Research-driven Teaching 11am-11.30am Tea and coffee, Pope A13/14 Conveners: Katharina Lorenz (Nottingham) and Will Leveritt (Nottingham) 11.30am-1pm Session 8: Nine three-paper panels Contributors: Lukas Bossert (Humboldt Universität Berlin, former Q-Kolleg fellow); current Nottingham Q-Kolleg fellows

This roundtable focuses on international teaching collaborations, specifically of the type currently trialled in the Q-Kolleg programme, a Pope A21 Pope A22 Pope C1 Pope C16 Pope C15 Pope A17 Pope C14 Pope A1 Coates Rd collaboration between Nottingham and Humboldt Universität Berlin (tiny.cc/UoNq-kolleg). It will discuss the requirements of international Military Romans in Material Viewing Greece and Late Antique Epic and Xenophon’s Teaching curriculum planning; different modes of interaction - in class, via distant collaboration tools, and on site; language challenges; and more Tactics and Our Space culture Ancient the East Literature History Socratic ‘Sexually- generally the benefits and challenges of research-driven learning at student level. Strategy Sexuality Works Explicit’ Latin Texts How to Integrate Classics in Communities: The Government’s Primary Education Reforms and their Impact on Classics Perazzi Kaczmarek Trundle Grove Fountoulakis Parkes Gerrish Farrell Hunt Conveners: Evelien Bracke (Swansea) and Mai Musié (Oxford) Vassiliou- Kropp Alaimo Potter Kirkham-Smith O’Hogan Fragoulaki Harman Ancona Contributors: Steven Hunt (PGCE coordinator at the University of Cambridge) and Jane Maguire (Norfolk Primary Latin Project) Abson Schofield Rollason Zarmakoupi Johnston Anderson Malone England Bryan Komar The round table discussion will explore the following issues: opportunities and challenges regarding the teaching of the ancient languages at primary level, and potential consequences for teaching at secondary level; opening Classics to pupils from all social

backgrounds and abilities; the use of local Classics hubs and the need for national strategies; traditional teaching approaches and the 1pm-2pm Lunch, Cripps and Hugh Stewart halls integration of non-traditional approaches (eg from Modern Foreign Languages). 1pm-2.30pm CA Council Meeting, Pope A1 Story-telling and Historical Authenticity in a Visual Medium: The Comics-series “Three” End of Conference Convener and chair: Lynn Fotheringham (Nottingham) Contributors: Stephen Hodkinson (Nottingham) in conversation with Kieron Gillen (author of comics-series 'Three') Roundtables This roundtable will consider the relationship between academia and popular culture by bringing together the writer and historical consultant on Three, a recent five-part comics series telling the story of three helots on the run from 300 Spartans during Sparta’s The titles of roundtables are listed in alphabetical order. crisis in the mid-4th century BC. We hope that those attending the round table will share their views on the comic in relation to other examples of popular Classical culture, any experiences of similar interaction between academics and professional story-tellers, as well as Broadcasting Greece suggestions and desiderata for similar future collaborations. How can both sides maximise the quality of the impact that our works have Conveners: Amanda Wrigley (Westminster) and Fiona Hobden (Liverpool) on one another? Contributors: Lynn Fotheringham (Nottingham), Tony Keen (Open University), Antony Makrinos (UCL), Sarah Miles (Durham), Amanda Potter (Open University), Jackie Whalen (St. Andrews) Teaching and Learning about Ancient Religion Conveners: Susan Deacy (Roehampton) and Esther Eidinow (Nottingham) The forthcoming edited collection, Broadcasting Greece: Public Engagements with Ancient Greece on British Radio and Television Contributors: Hugh Bowden (KCL), Elena Chepel (Reading), Theodora Jim (Lancaster), Sonya Nevin (Roehampton), Ivana Petrovic (eds. Amanda Wrigley and Fiona Hobden) seeks to document and explore the various ways in which radio and television have engaged (Durham) and Andrej Petrovic (Durham) with the literary, historical and archaeological remains of ancient Greece in a wide (yet interconnected) range of programming formats, including material broadcast for schools and university students, documentaries, television fiction and presentations of theatre works. This roundtable will explore the experience of teaching, and being taught about ancient religion in HE institutions. Some of the challenges facing teachers and students of this subject include working with or against current attitudes to religious practice and beliefs (eg popular The round-table discussion will bring together a number of contributors to the volume to explore topics such as the distinctiveness of perceptions of the relationship between science and religion); difficulties in understanding abstract concepts such as belief or faith in a mass media engagements with ancient Greece, why the focus on Greece and not Rome, and the place and importance of this topic predominantly secular society; and showing sensitivity to the religious beliefs of individuals. within broader strands of cultural history. Examining the experience of teaching and being taught about ancient religion in HE institutions will help generate a deeper Defining Classical Scholarship: The Research/Teaching Interface understanding of the experience of teaching and learning about sensitive subjects in HE more generally, and will provide a model for Convener and chair: Jonathan Eaton (Newcastle College) embedding interculturalism within the curriculum.

Ben Cartlidge (Oxford) Why compose? Greek Prose Composition and Functional Grammar Mair Lloyd (Open University) Theory and Practice in Ancient Language Teaching in UK Universities Lisa Trentin (Toronto Mississauga) Disability in Antiquity: New Research and Traditional Teaching Sonia Sulaiman (Windsor, Ontario) Curiosity and Classics: A Case Study in Questorming Bartolo Natoli Research and Pedagogy in the Classics: Two Models for Integration (University of Texas at Austin)

8 9 The Future of Postgraduate Training and Skills Development [CUCD] Cult Convener: Genevieve Liveley (Bristol) Chair: Andrej Petrovic (Durham)

Jennifer Hilder (Glasgow) What Postgraduates Want Kate McLardy (Monash) Wailing for Adonis: Local Variation in the Adonia Festival Shushma Malik (Manchester) What Postgraduates Need Alexander Millington (UCL) Canonising the Unusual: Pausanias’s Ares David Carter (Reading) Can We All Be Better Linguists? Jennifer Carrington (Cornell) Divine Attribution and Competition: Royal and Elite Strategies in the Statuary of Ptolemaic Egypt Fiona McHardy (Roehampton) Teaching and Learning in HE Training for Postgraduates Nick Lowe (Royal Holloway) Sharing Good Practice in Postgraduate Training *Dealing with Defeat in Republican Rome Genevieve Liveley (Bristol) The Future of Postgraduate Training and Skills Development Panel conveners: Henriette van der Blom (Glasgow) and Amy Russell (Durham) Chair: Catherine Steel (Glasgow)

Panels, speakers and papers Ida Östenberg (Gothenburg) Describing Defeat: Roman Explanations of Republican Military Failure Henriette van der Blom (Glasgow) Tackling Public Criticism: Metellus Numidicus’ Contio Speeches in 107-106 BC Amy Russell (Durham) Explaining and Exploiting Electoral Defeat The titles of panels are listed in alphabetical order. An asterisk next to a panel title indicates that the panel has been specially Harriet I. Flower (Princeton) M. Porcius Cato’s Failure to Reach the Consulship organised for the conference. *Deception in Classical Oratory and Historiography *Across the Border: Four movies about Hadrian’s Wall Panel conveners: Kathryn Tempest (Roehampton) and Christos Kremmydas (RHUL) Panel conveners: Juliette Harrisson (Newman) and Tony Keen (Open University) Chair: John Marincola (Florida State University) Chair: Monica S. Cyrino (New Mexico) Christos Kremmydas (RHUL) Rhetorical Deception and the Use of Documents in Public Speeches of Demosthenes and Tony Keen (Open University) A Wild West Hero: Motifs of the Hollywood Western in the four Hadrian’s Wall Movies Aeschines Elizabeth Gloyn (RHUL) Passing Under The Wall: Concepts of Masculinity in the Roman Britain Movies Jenny Winter (RHUL) Deceitful Speeches as Devices for Characterisation in Xenophon’s Anabasis Juliette Harrisson (Newman) Narratives of Occupation in The Eagle Mike Edwards (Roehampton) Deception in the Speeches of Isaeus Alex McAuley (McGill) Shadows of post-9/11Warfare in Centurion and The Eagle Kathryn Tempest (Roehampton) Lies, Errors and Deceit: The Vocabulary of Deception in Cicero’s Speeches

*Approaching Hellenism: The Case of Achaea from the Archaic to the Byzantine Period Education and Classics Panel convener: Thomas Coward (KCL) Chair: Carolyn Higbie (Buffalo) Chair: Richard Rawles (Nottingham) Bárbara Costa (Sao Paulo) Mimesis and Fiction in Choricius’ Declamations: What Can We Learn from Tyrannicides Thomas Coward (KCL) Steadfast Achaeans and Murderers? Jeffrey Veitch (Kent) The Roman Period Beatrice da Vela (UCL) A Day at Donatus’ School: Strategies, Practices and Methodology of a Late-Antique Grammarian James Morton (Berkeley) Slavs, Byzantines and a Non-Hellenic Hellenism Frances Foster (Cambridge) Teaching Virgil in Late Antiquity Sonya Kirk (Nottingham) Lord Byron’s Latin Grammar *Assuming the Supernatural: Cognitive Approaches to Greek Religion and Magic Panel convener: Esther Eidinow (Nottingham) *Eliciting Emotions in Ancient Greek Warfare Chair: Robert Parker (Oxford) Panel convener and chair: Fernando Echeverría Rey (Complutense)

Sarah Hitch (Oxford) Thinking Through Anthropomorphism Ed Sanders (RHUL) Thucydides and Emotional Incitement to War Esther Eidinow (Nottingham) Ritual Competence, Magical Power Gabriel Herman Hallucinative Emotions in Ancient Greek Warfare Hugh Bowden (KCL) Sensory Approaches to Divine Epiphany (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Jason Crowley The Culture of Combat in Classical Greece Catullus (Manchester Metropolitan) Chair: Ronnie Ancona (Hunter College /CUNY Graduate Centre) David Konstan (Brown) Response and discussion

Henry Spelman (Oxford) Borrowing Sappho’s Napkins: Sappho 101, Catullus 12, and Theocritus 28 Epic and History Robert Cowan (Sydney) On Not Being Archilochus Properly: Cato, Catullus and the Idea of Iambos Chair: Antony Augoustakis (Illinois) Dániel Kiss The Neoteric Generation (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Maria Fragoulaki (Birkbeck) Death in Thucydides and Homer München/UCD) Jennifer Gerrish (Temple) An Epic Duel in Caesar’s Bellum Gallicum Maxine Lewis (Auckland) Landscape, Place, and Space in Catullus: Developments in Theories and Methods Bridget England (UCL) Julius Caesar in the Shadow of the Argonauts: Epic Intertextuality and damnatio memoriae in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica *Cognitive Approaches to Memory in Epic Poetry Panel convener: Siobhan Privitera (Edinburgh) *Escape from the Cycle of Reincarnation in India and in Greece: How to Explain the Similarities? Chair: Nick Lowe (RHUL) Panel convener: Richard Seaford (Exeter) Chair: Tim Whitmarsh (Oxford) Nicholas Hanson (Oxford) Recalling the Future: Prophecy and Memory in Homer Siobhan Privitera (Edinburgh) Realising the Past: Memory, Materiality, and Mindedness in Il. 9.185-195 Richard Fynes (de Montfort) ‘From whose bourn no traveller returns? - Birth, Death and Life in the Vedic Brahmanas Kate Sanborn (TCD) Process Philosophy and the Past in the Aeneid 3 Richard Seaford (Exeter) Ethicised Reincarnation in India and Greece Nick Allen (Oxford) Two Other-World Journeys: Odysseus to Alcinous, Dead Soul to Brahmã Comparative Approaches Christopher Green (Leeds) Plato’s Phaedo and the Milindapaña Chair: Richard Seaford (Exeter) *Ethics and Late Republican Politics Mohammad Almohanna Antarah Ibn Shaddãd: Heracles of Arabia Panel convener: Kit Morrell (Sydney) (The Higher Institute of Chair: John Rich (Nottingham) Dramatic Arts, Kuwait) Jenny Jingyi Zhao (Cambridge) Comparing Aristotle and Xunzi on Shame and Moral Education Kit Morrell (Sydney) Cato, Stoicism, and the Governance of the Roman Empire Theodora Jim (Lancaster) Seafaring and ‘Saving’ Gods in Ancient Greece and China Martin Stone (Sydney) Cicero and Sallust on Utility and Virtue Kathryn Welch (Sydney) The Virtuous Marcus Antonius? Sarah Lawrence (New England) Remembering Your Heroes

10 11 Fiction and Reception Leadership Issues Chair: Betine Van Zyl Smit (Nottingham) Chair: Kathryn Welch (Sydney)

Ahuvia Kahane (RHUL) Virgil’s Vita and Umbro’s Mors: Life, Narrative and Epic Authority Kleanthis Mantzouranis (UCL) Bad Leadership and the Limits of Power in Herodotus Claire Rachel Jackson (Cambridge) Fictional Histories and Histories of Fiction in the Reception of the Ancient Novel Shane Wallace (TCD) The Earliest Royal Correspondence of the Hellenistic Period: The Letter of Philip III Arrhidaios to Emily Lord-Kambitsch (UCL) Tracing ‘Roman’ Emotions in the Historical Novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ Eresos Zina Giannopoulou (California) Oedipus Meets Bucky in Philip Roth’s Nemesis John Rich (Nottingham) Dux or divus? Augustus and the Actium Reliefs

*For the Love of God: Exploring Biblical and Novelistic Textures in Late Antique Narrative [KYKNOS] *Legacies of Greek Political Thought in America Panel conveners: Koen De Temmerman (Ghent), John Morgan (Swansea) and Marco Formisano (Ghent) Panel convener: John Bloxham (Nottingham) Chair: Ian Repath (Swansea) Chair: Kostas Vlassopoulos (Nottingham)

John Morgan (Swansea) The Monk’s Tale: Massacre, Mutilation and Narratological Perversion Nicholas Cole (Oxford) Is There Space for a Greek Influence on American Thought? Annelies Bossu (Ghent) The Epic Passions of the Martyrs and the Ancient Greek Novel: Rhetorical Cunning in the Passio Sara Monoson (Northwestern) Classical Sources and the Promotion of Literacy in Radical Critique: Diego Rivera’s Man at the Caeciliae and the Passio Chrysanthi et Dariae Crossroads (1933) and Hugo Gellert’s Aesop Said So (1936) Stephen Trzaskoma Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon: A Classic for Christians? Liz Sawyer (Oxford) Leo Strauss, in Context: Classical Literature as Political Philosophy in 1950s/1960s American (New Hampshire) Universities Maarten Taveirne (Ghent) At the Crossroad of Ancient Rhetoric and Biblical Exegesis: Understanding History through Biblical John Bloxham (Nottingham) The Original Neoconservative? Leo Strauss’s Version of Xenophon’s Version of Socrates Exempla in the Latin Acta Martyrum and Passiones from the Fourth-Sixth centuries Material culture Greece and the East Chair: Ray Laurence (Kent) Chair: Esther Eidinow (Nottingham) Matthew Trundle (Auckland) Coinage in the Athenian Empire Andreas Fountoulakis (Crete) When Dionysus Goes to the East: On the Dissemination of Greek Drama beyond Athens Katrina-Kay S. Alaimo (Exeter) Using Small Finds Data for Temple Sites in Roman Britain Guy Kirkham-Smith (Birmingham) ‘A Monstrous Change’ Mantha Zarmakoupi The Dynamic Commercial Cityscape of Late Hellenistic Delos Loriel Anderson (Bristol) Seeing the Serious in the Sensational: Ctesias’ Reflections of Contemporary Political Thought (National Hellenic Research Foundation, KERA) *Greek Oratory in/as Performance Panel convener: Andreas Serafim (UCL) Military Tactics and Strategy Chair: Eleni Volonaki (Peloponnese) Chair: Jason Crowley (Manchester Metropolitan)

Edward M. Harris (Durham) How to ‘Act’ in an Athenian Court: Emotions and Forensic Performance Pietro Perazzi (Cardiff) Demosthenes’ and Brasidas’ Military Accomplishments: Just a Matter of Luck? Nancy Worman Mimesis, Style, and the Dangers of Dress-up Anastasia Vassiliou-Abson Sparta in the Eyes of its Allies (Barnard College, Columbia) (Leicester Grammar School) Michael J. Edwards (Roehampton) Proems in Performance Aimee Schofield (Manchester) Here’s One I Made Earlier: How Catapult Reconstruction Can Fill in the Gaps in a Text Andreas Serafim (UCL) ‘Conventions’ in/as Performance: Addressing the Audience in Selected Speeches of Demosthenes *Multifaceted Lucian Homer, Virgil and their Reception Panel convener: Nicholas Wilshere (Nottingham) Chair: Helen Lovatt (Nottingham) Chair: Jason König (St. Andrews)

Lilah Grace Canevaro (Edinburgh) On the Edge: Objects and Liminality in Homer Tim Whitmarsh (Oxford) Lucian the Atheist?: Zeus the Tragedian Maike Oergel (Nottingham) Contingent Antiquity: Adapting Homer for Modernity in 18th-century Britain and Germany Claudio García Ehrenfeld (KCL) Can an ἰδιώτης be a Better Guide than a Philosopher on the Road to Happiness? Maria Giulia Franzoni (St. Andrews) Homer and Leopardi: 19th Century Interpretations of Unhappiness in the Iliad Nick Wilshere (Nottingham) ‘Scary-eyed Athena’ and ‘rustic Alexander’: Homer, Lucian, and the Judgement of Paris Philippa Williams (UCL) The Land in the Georgics: Conflict vs. Desire Judith Mossman (Nottingham) Metaphor and Personification in Lucian’sde domo

*Iconography and Narrative: The Finer Detail Mythography Panel convener: William Leveritt (Nottingham) Chair: Stephen Trzaskoma (New Hampshire) Chair: Amy Smith (Reading) Ariadne Konstantinou (Tel Aviv) Tradition and Innovation in Greek Tragedy’s Mythological Exempla Katharina Lorenz (Nottingham) Meleager at Pleuron: A Hunter as War Hero R. Scott Smith (New Hampshire) Mythography in Seneca’s Trojan Women Lukas C. Bossert (Humboldt) How the Minotaur Floored Theseus: Integrating Challenging Sarcophagi Elena Iakovou (Göttingen) Oedipus Meets Sphinx in Euripides (and Other Literary Texts) William Leveritt (Nottingham) Nuanced Meaning in Apparently Stable Motifs: Hercules on Some Dionysian Sarcophagi *New Approaches to eLearning in Classics 1 Kingship Panel convener: Bartolo Natoli (Texas) Chair: Philip Davies (Nottingham) Chair: Jonathan Eaton (Newcastle College)

Benjamin Raynor (Oxford) ‘Cassander Philhellene’? City Foundation and Dynastic Reputation in the Successor Period Bartolo Natoli (Texas) Grounding Classics Pedagogy in the Theory of eLearning John Shannahan (Macquarie) The King of Persia and Foreign Policy: The Greek Sources Simon Mahony (UCL) Open Educational Resources and their Place in Teaching and Research for Classics E.P. Moloney (N.U.I. Maynooth) Neither Agamemnon nor Thersites, Achilles nor Margites: The ‘Homeric’ Kings of Ancient Macedon. Moss Pike Gamification in Classics (Harvard-Westlake School, Late Antique Literature California) Chair: Magdalena Ohrman (Trinity St. David) *New Approaches to eLearning in Classics 2 Ruth Parkes (Trinity St David) Generic Polyphony in Claudian’s De Raptu Proserpinae Panel convener: Bartolo Natoli (Texas) Christopher Malone (Sydney) Between Ice and Finery: Identity and Loyalty in Jordanes’ Getica Chair: Jonathan Eaton (Newcastle College) Cillian O’Hogan Prudentius and the Language of Ethnicity in Late Antiquity (The British Library) Mair Lloyd (Open University) and eLearning for Ancient Languages in UK Universities James Robson (Open University) Sonya Nevin (Roehampton) Animating Ancient Greek Vases: panoply.org.uk Andrew Reinhard Classics Subversion = Classics Immersion: Why Grammar, Vocabulary and Reading (ASCS Athens) Aren’t Enough 12 13 *New Directions in Onscreen Receptions *Pollution and Impurity in Roman Religion Panel convener: Antony Augoustakis (Illinois) Panel convener: Jack Lennon (Nottingham) Chair: Alex McAuley (McGill) Chair: Penelope Davies (Texas)

Joanna Paul (Open University) Masks, Shadows, and Echoes: Locating Classical Receptions in TV and Film Jack Lennon (Nottingham) Purity, Pollution and the Construction of Religious Identity in Rome Monica S. Cyrino (New Mexico) Ricochets off the Frontier: Classical Allusion in HBO’s Deadwood (2004-6) John North (ICS) Closing the lustrum Trevor Fear (Open University) The HBO Cleopatra: ‘They turned a great heroine into a pop culture slut’ Daniele Miano (Oxford) Roman Pollution in Public and Private Time Antony Augoustakis (Illinois) The Other on Screen in the 21st Century Susanne Rasmussen The Power of Pollution in the Clash between Roman Religion and Christianity (Southern Denmark) *New Directions in Roman Historiography? A Response to The Fragments of the Roman Historians Panel convener: Catherine Steel (Glasgow), *Professionals in Antiquity Chair: Christopher Pelling (Oxford) Panel convener: Edmund Stewart (Leeds) Chair: David Carter (Reading) John Marincola (Florida State), Luke Pitcher (Oxford), Simon Malloch (Nottingham) Edward M. Harris (Durham) Many Occupations, Few Professions: Technical Specialization in the Classical and Hellenistic This panel will offer a response to this new edition of the fragments of the Roman historians, from scholars of ancient historiography who Greek Worlds have not been involved in preparing it. Its focus is less on direct critique of the volumes themselves, though naturally editorial decisions Jason Koenig (St. Andrews) Authority and Expertise in Roman Imperial Culture will receive close scrutiny, and more on its implications for future research: issues to be covered include the definition and development Edmund Stewart (Leeds) The Professional Poet and the Professional Class in Classical Greece of Roman historiography; new interpretations of specific historians; the interpretation of individual fragments within the contexts of books Melinda Letts (Oxford) Philosophers and Professionals: The Status of the Second Century Medical Man and whole works; the importance of testimonia; and the identification of new research questions and projects. *Radical Re-imaginings of Tragic Figures *Out of the ‘Deep, Dark Dell’: A Panel on Latin Metre Panel convener: Amy McCauley (Aberystwyth) Panel convener: Magdalena Ohrman (Trinity St David) Chair: Alan Sommerstein (Nottingham) Chair: Lynn Fotheringham (Nottingham) Nick Geller (Michigan) Iphigenia among the Moderns: Goethe’s Iphigenie auf Tauris Christer Henriksén (Uppsala) The Uppsala Database of Dactylic Verse Raph Cormack (Edinburgh) Comedy = Tragedy + Time: Ali Salem’s Comedy of Oedipus Llewelyn Morgan (Oxford) A Metrical Scandal in Ennius Amy Pistone (Michigan) Antigone the Activist: Greg Taubman’s Antigone/Progeny Magdalena Ohrman Metre in Metamorphosis: Back and Forth in Ovid’s Tale of the Daughters of Minyas Amy McCauley (Aberystwyth) Oedipus Out of Time: Two Re-imaginings of Tragedy (Trinity St David) *Reception and Sophocles’ Ajax Ovid Panel convener: Sheila Murnaghan (Pennsylvania) Chair: Donncha O’Rourke (Edinburgh) Chair: David Scourfield (N.U.I Maynooth)

Bethany Flanders (TCD) non audet scribere dextra: Misdirection and the Epistolary Identity of Ovid’s Medea Sheila Murnaghan (Pennsylvania) The Voices of Homer in the Ajax Cédric Scheidegger Lämmle (Basel) Torn Apart and Glued Together? On Ovid’s Post-Exilic Œuvre Robin Mitchell-Boyask (Temple) Ajax and Masculine Anxiety Christina Robertson (Auckland) The God’s-Eye View: Conceptions of Space in Ovid’s Metamorphoses Justine McConnell The Sparagmos of Ajax in Toni Morrison’s Sula Anna Goddard (Pennsylvania) Metamorphic Animals in Phaedrus’ Fables: Phaedrus as a Post-Ovidian Poet (Oxford) Emma Cole (UCL) Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and the performance reception of Sophocles’ Ajax Performance and Reception Chair: Oliver Thomas (Nottingham) *Refracting the Great War: Classical Receptions in English Literature, 1918–1929 Panel convener: David Scourfield (N.U.I. Maynooth) Efstathia Athanasopoulou (UCL) Ajax as the First Cambridge Greek Play: Antiquity or Modernity? Chair: Sheila Murnaghan Amanda Wrigley (Westminster) Greek Tragedy in the BBC and ITV Schools Curricula of the 1960s Cressida Ryan (Oxford) From Alexander to Xerxes, Triumphant Tragedy and Tragic Triumph on the British Stage Stephanie Nelson (Boston) The Odyssey and Joyce’s Ulysses as Post-war Epics Małgorzata Budzowska (Lodz) Postmodern Aesthetics in the Theatre Productions of Ancient Dramas Leah Culligan Flack (Marquette) The Great War and Modernism’s Siren Songs David Scourfield (N.U.I. Maynooth) Latin, Class, and Gender in Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End Plato and Aristotle Elizabeth Vandiver ‘Pursued by an Infinite Legion of Eumenides’: Richard Aldington and the Trauma of Survival Chair: Jenny Bryan (UCL) (Whitman College)

Rocco Di Dio (Warwick) The Enemy of Philosophers. The Theory of Laughter in Plato’s Philebus *Roman Bodies I: Corporeal Ekphrasis in Latin Literature Trinidad Silva (UCL) Shades of Intelligence: The Place of polutropia in Plato’s Intellectual Ideal Panel convener: Patrick Cook (Cambridge) Fiona Mitchell (Bristol) Monstrosity and Deformity in Aristotle’s Biology Chair: Mark Bradley (Nottingham/BSR)

*Poetry Worth Lamenting: Success and Failure in Ovid’s Exile Corpus Jan Meister (Humboldt) The Body in Roman Invective Panel convener: Veronica Zanoni (Università degli Studi di Padova) Patrick Cook (Cambridge) Corporeal Ekphrasis in Suetonius Chair: Roy Gibson (Manchester) Jane Maxwell (KCL) The Ugly Female Body in Martial Caroline Vout (Cambridge) The Touchy, Feely World of Post-Augustan Epic Elena Giusti (Cambridge) Ovid’s Tireestias: Ovid, Tiresias and Tristia Veronica Zanoni The Metaphor of the Crumbled House in Tristia 2: Ovid’s Demolishing Self- Representation and its *Roman Bodies II: Visual Approaches [British School at Rome] (Università degli Studi di Padova) Ciceronian Models Panel convener: Mark Bradley (Nottingham/BSR) Christina Tsaknaki (Cambridge) Necessary Failures: Self-Consolation and fama in Ovid’s Tristia Chair: Caroline Vout (Cambridge)

Mark Bradley (Nottingham/BSR) Roman Noses Jane Draycott (Trinity St David) Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: The Use of Real, False, and Artificial Hair as Votive Offerings in the Roman World Glenys Davies (Edinburgh) Subservient Body Language: Barbarians, Slaves, Women and Provincials in Roman Art Kate Nichols (Cambridge) Dismembering the Roman Body? Christians, Lions, and the Politics of Looking at and in Late Victorian Painting

14 15 Romans in our Space *Teaching ‘Sexually-Explicit’ Latin Texts Chair: Simon Malloch (Nottingham) Panel conveners: Ronnie Ancona (Hunter College/CUNY Graduate Centre) and Steven Hunt (Cambridge) Chair: Maxine Lewis (Auckland) Crysta Kaczmarek (Leicester) A Name and a Place: Civic Identity in Roman Thessaly Andreas Kropp (Nottingham) Jupiter of Heliopolis (Baalbek): A New God for a New Roman Colony Steven Hunt (Cambridge) Strategies for Teaching Sexually-Explicit Latin Texts Nikki Rollason (Nottingham) 'Weaving a tranquil work of peace'? Clothing Gifts in Late-antique Diplomacy Ronnie Ancona (Hunter College/ Teaching Sexually-Explicit Catullus CUNY Graduate Centre) *Seleukid Space Alexandra Komar Teaching Sexually-Explicit Ovid and Tacitus Panel convener: Marijn Visscher (Durham) (Malvern St. James School) Chair: Ivana Petrovic (Durham) *The Augustan (R)evolution Chiara Grigolin (Durham) Tetrapolis: Receptions of a Seleukid Heartland Panel convener: Clare Rowan (Warwick) John Russell Holton (Edinburgh) Seleukos Nikator and the Anchor within Seleukid space Chair: Alison Cooley (Warwick) Marijn Visscher (Durham) Mapping the Realm: Patrokles and Demodamas on the Limits of Seleukid Space Alexander Peck (Warwick) The Roman Concept of the Patria and the Augustan (R?)evolution *Slavery and its Sources: Methods and Interpretations [Institute for the Study of Slavery] Vanessa E. Mackenzie (Warwick) Conciliation, Coherence, Continuity: Octavian, Rome and Business as Usual…. Panel convener: Kostas Vlassopoulos (Nottingham) Clare Rowan (Warwick) Now You See It….Now You Don’t. The (R)evolution of Augustan Iconography in Roman Iberia Chair: Steve Hodkinson (Nottingham) Marguerite Spoerri Butcher The Coinage of Juba II of Mauretania: (R)evolution in a Client Kingdom? (Warwick) Robin Osborne (Cambridge) On Not Finding Slaves in Ancient Greece Niall McKeown (Birmingham) Ancient Slavery and Modern Interpretation *The Cosmos and its Creatures: Tradition and Innovation in Lucretian Structures Kostas Vlassopoulos (Nottingham) Inscriptions and Slaves: Sources, Methods and Interpretations Panel conveners: Paul Jackson (Open University) and Pamela Zinn (TCD) David Lewis (Edinburgh) Slavery Viewed Through the Lens of Gortynian Law: Generic Distortions and Methodological Chair: Roy Gibson (Manchester) Principles Emma Park (Independent Scholar) Lucretius and Platonic Pleasure: Reading De rerum natura III.1003-10 *Slavery II (Institute for the Study of Slavery) Pamela Zinn (TCD) Love and the Structure of Emotion in Lucretius Panel convener: Kostas Vlassopoulos (Nottingham) Abigail K. Buglass (Oxford) Lucretius on the Origin of the World: the Argumentative Structure of De rerum natura Chair: Robin Osborne (Cambridge) V.91-508 Paul Jackson (Open University) Parménide chez Lucrèce Mirko Canevaro (Edinburgh) Athenian paramone and the Evidence of the Wills of the Philosophers in Diogenes Laertius Agnes Thomas (Cologne) Depictions of Slaves in Greek Art of Classical and Hellenistic Times *The Eastern Client States of the Roman Empire Eftychia Bathrellou (Edinburgh) Annulling Social Death: Slaves and Greek Comedy Panel conveners: Eran Almagor (Ben Gurion) and Leonardo Gregoratti (Durham) Mick Stringer (Reading) ‘Accounting for Slavery’: The Value and Nature of the Roman Agricultural Slave Chair: Andreas Kropp (Nottingham)

*Sparta: New Perspectives on the Spartiatai [Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies] Leonardo Gregoratti (Durham) Loyal to the Emperor, Loyal to the Great King: Two Alternative Ways of Building an Empire Panel convener: Philip Davies (Nottingham) Eivind Seland (Bergen) Rome and the Not-So-Friendly King: The Social Networks of Local Rulers in the Roman Near East Chair: Jim Roy (Nottingham) Eran Almagor (Ben Gurion) Last of the Achaemenids, Friend of the Romans: Antiochus I of Commagene Donald MacLennan (Durham) ‘Not in the lands of the Judaeans’ (Jos. Ant. 15.328): Local and Regional Authority in Judaea, 63 Maciej Daszuta (Liverpool/ Warsaw) The Spartan oikos and the Spartan State BC–AD 132 Stephen Hodkinson (Nottingham) Classical Sparta: A Totalitarian Domination of State over Society? Jackie Whalen (St. Andrews) Mapping Austerity in Sparta’s Sacred Landscape Thinking about the Divine Philip Davies (Nottingham) The Institutional and Personal Standing of the Spartan Elite Chair: Emma Stafford (Leeds)

*Sparta Beyond the Spartiatai: Placing the Non-Spartiatai in Lakedaimon [Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies] Alan H. Sommerstein Friendly Gods in Comedy and Tragedy Panel convener: Peter Davies (Nottingham) (Nottingham) Chair: Rosie Harman (UCL) Eleanor OKell (Leeds) Euripides' Last Words? The Tale of the Notorious Coda and the Unbelievable Proof Deborah Lyons (Miami) Once More Into the Cauldron: Greek Goddesses and the Failure of Immortality Peter Davies (Nottingham) Social Dissonance in Lakedaimonian Society Ailsa Hunt (Cambridge) Rethinking Numen: A Word for ‘Thinking With’ Carlos Villafane (Liverpool) Remembering the perioikoi among the Lakedaimonian War Dead Jennifer Martinez (Liverpool) Harmful and Useless? Reassessing the Behaviour of Spartan Women during the Theban Invasion Tragic Performance of Lakedaimon Chair: Patrick Finglass (Nottingham)

*Talking About Laughter: Responses to Aristophanes and Alan Sommerstein Aspasia Skouroumouni Stavrinou Cross-boundary Play in Performance: The Poetics of Space and Genre in Euripides’ Helen Panel convener: Lynn Kozak (McGill) (UCL) Chair: Judith Mossman (Nottingham) Naomi Weiss (Berkeley) Dolphins, Nereids, Monsters and Stars: The Choral Imaginary of Euripides' Electra (431-86) Timothy W Boyd Exit the Rhapsode, Enter… D.M. Carter (Reading) The Aristophanic Prologue (SUNY at Buffalo) Sarah Miles (Durham) ‘How to avoid being a tragic komodoumenos’: Targeting Tragic Artists in Greek Comedy Sophie Bocksberger (Oxford) Ancient Dance in Modern Dancers Project — Data Analysis Lynn Kozak (McGill) ‘Spare the Eels!’ Troubles with Translating Humour in Aristophanes’ Lysistrata *Transformations in Imperial Power [The Postgraduate Late Antiquity Network] Teaching Panel convener: Rebecca Usherwood (Nottingham) Chair: Steven Hunt (Cambridge) Chair: Doug Lee (Nottingham)

Deborah Kerr (Windsor High Never Vex Angry Gorillas Doing Arithmetic: Using Strategies to Support a Dyslexic Douglas Underwood (St. Andrews) Imperial Patronage and Urban Public Building under the Tetrarchy School) Learner in a Whole-Class Setting for Latin Teaching Rebecca Usherwood (Nottingham) A Job for life? Emeritus Emperors and the Dissolution of Imperial Authority Edward Bragg Disguised Foods, Pole-Dancing, and Homeric Muddles: The Challenges of Teaching Christopher Doyle (N.U.I Galway) The Right Hand of Victory: Triumphal Symbolism in the Late Roman Empire (Peter Symonds College) Trimalchio’s Dinner to Sixth Form Students Tristan Taylor (New England/Yale) Extermination in Late Roman Imperial Ideology in the Latin West Anna Krohn and Gregory Crane Technology and Greek in the Translation Course (Perseus Digital Library, Tufts)

16 17 *Viewing Ancient Sexuality: Modern Responses to Classical Images of Sex and Sexuality Panel convener: Amanda Potter (Open University) Chair: Jo Paul (Open University)

Amanda Potter (Open University) Subtext or Main Text?: Xena and Spartacus in the Museum and Debbie Challis (Petrie Museum of Archaeology, UCL) John J. Johnston (UCL) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Petrie: Modern Approaches to LGBT History Jennifer Grove (Exeter) Sex and History: Using Ancient Images to Tackle ‘Pornography’ with Young People

*Visual Language on Painted Pottery in Context [Pottery Research Network] Panel convener: Amy Smith (Reading) and Sally Waite (Newcastle) Chair: Mark Stansbury-O'Donnell (St. Thomas)

Sally Waite (Newcastle) Representing Ritual: A Kylix Fragment in the Shefton Collection Nigel Porter (Newcastle) Departing Warriors on Athenian Pottery Amy Smith and Katerina Volioti Viewing Music Within and Without the Scene (Reading) Diana Rodríguez-Pérez Unexpected Signs in Unexpected Contexts: Meaningful Relationships between the (Edinburgh) Apotheosis of Heracles and the Apobates Race on Greek Vases

Visual Narrative Chair: Ruth Parkes (Trinity St. David)

Shawn O’Bryhim Visual Rhetoric in Ovid’s Myth of Arachne (Ov., Met. 6.70-102) (Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster) Paula James (Open University) Picture This! – Or Don’t: Ovid’s Figurative Language and its Function in the Metamorphoses Francesco Lubian Narrativization, Spatialization, and Diachronic Arrangement in Prudentius’ Dittochaeon (Università degli Studi di Macerata/ Universität Wien) Meike Rhül (Osnabrück) Look and Read: Image and Text in Late Antique Manuscripts

*Xenophon’s Socratic Works Panel convener: Jenny Bryan (UCL) Chair: Malcolm Schofield (Cambridge)

Christopher Farrell (Birmingham) On the Socratica of Xenophon: a Re-classification Rosie Harman (UCL) Visualising Socrates Jenny Bryan (UCL) Xenophon’s Socrates as a ‘Ladies’ Man’

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2nd Edition Animals in the Ancient Coming Soon 2nd Edition Aspects of World from A to Z Greek History: Pompeii and Roman History Kenneth F. Kitchell Jr. The Basics Herculaneum 31 BC-AD 117 Robin Osborne A Sourcebook Richard Alston Women in Alison E. Cooley and Mycenaean Greece Metafiction in M. G. L. Cooley 2nd Edition The Linear B Tablets from Classical Literature nEw in PaPErbaCk The Roman Empire Pylos and Knossos The Invention of at Bay Barbara A. Olsen Self-Conscious Fiction Collected Papers on AD 180–395 Owen Hodkinson Alexander the Great The Ancient Near East David S. Potter Ernst Badian History, Society and Economy 2nd Edition Coming Soon Mario Liverani Augustus The Roman Republic Translated by Soraia Tabatabai Patricia Southern @Rout_Classics 264–44 BC The Etruscan World Edward Bispham Edited by Jean MacIntosh Turfa

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