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THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2018 Friday 6–Monday 9 April hosted by The School of Archaeology & Ancient History University of Leicester PANELS & ABSTRACTS Website: http://www.le.ac.uk/classical-association-2018 E-mail: [email protected] CONTENTS 1 SUBMITTED PANELS 1 2 COMPILED PANELS 14 3 PAPERS (INCLUDING RESPONSES) 16 4 POSTERS 96 5 WORKSHOPS 100 1 SUBMITTED PANELS Arranged by title. Abstracts of papers making up these panels are in section 3. [A Magnificent Seven, see under ‘M’] Aristocracy and Monetization M. 9 Convener: Gianna Stergiou (Hellenic Open University) Archaic Communities M. 11.30 Chair: Douglas Cairns (Glasgow) Convener and Chair: Kate Caraway (Liverpool) Speakers: Vayos Liapis, Richard Seaford, Gianna Stergiou, Speakers: Kate Caraway, Paul Grigsby, Serafina Nicolosi Marek Węcowski This panel interrogates the idea of the archaic Greek The wealth of the traditional Greek aristocracy, consisting community by focusing on the ways in which individuals principally in ownership of large estates, contributed interacted with one another. Traditionally archaic Greek (together with the prestige of hereditary nobility) to the communities have been approached through a establishment of personal power and status through a developmental, teleological prism that seeks to system of gift-giving. With the advent of money to the structuralise the emergence of the Greek polis. One Greek city-states, and especially with the issue and rapid result of this approach is a focus on the appearance of spread of coinage, the old system of ‘long-term organisational and institutional features—especially the transactions’ came under threat. One of the most political—of the archaic community (e.g. Raaflaub 1997), important features of money is that it provides its owner another is the tendency to treat local developments as with (real or fictional) self-sufficiency, which may result in evidence of broader trends, extrapolating outwards and the elite institution of gift-giving being undervalued. across time (e.g. Snodgrass 1980). Recent studies on Moreover, the ubiquitous circulation of money—inter alia networks have highlighted how individual interactions as a means of exchange and a measure of value—tended and relationships underpin all social interactions; to reduce the distance between social classes. Leslie Sociology and Anthropology told us long ago that these Kurke has argued that coinage ‘represents a tremendous form the basis of society. By undertaking an examination threat to a stable hierarchy of aristocrats and others, in of individual-community interactions at Athens, Miletos which the aristocrats maintain a monopoly on precious and in Boiotia, using a range of archaeological, epigraphic metals and other prestige goods’ (Kurke 1999: 46). And a and literary sources, the panel confronts the established number of scholars have argued that money played an narratives of community and polis development in the equalizing role between aristocratic elites and wealthy archaic period. It reintroduces the impact of social non-aristocrats by fostering a common lifestyle resting relationships on communities, elucidating the link upon the symposium, literacy, luxury, xenia, eroticism, between communal practices and community cohesion, and athletic games. The question whether money/ and proposing new avenues for approaching archaic coinage was problematic for the identity and status of the societies. Greek elite is the central concern of our panel. The fundamental question we wish to explore is whether The first paper (Caraway) looks at intra-polis relationships Greek aristocrats were, in fact, hostile to money and/or in sixth-century Athens. Challenging the notion of top- its uses, and (more generally) how Greek elites reacted to down intervention by the Athenian tyrants in ‘public the pervasiveness of money in the Greek polis. space’ it reasserts the organic influences impacting a community’s physical environment, produced by the intersection of the social and the spatial. The second Association for Latin Teaching (ArLT) Sa. 2 paper (Grigsby) explores how the religious spaces shared Convener and Chair: Steven Hunt (Cambridge; President between Boiotian communities facilitated interaction of ArLT) across territorial boundaries. These laid the foundations for the notion of a Boiotian ethnos, enabled by the social Speakers: Henry Lee, Lottie Mortimer, Allison Newbould pathways religious interaction had created. In the final Teachers of classics at the school level are much paper (Nicolosi) the meeting point of individuals and their underrepresented at national conferences for classicists community is explored through the Herodotean logos and the teaching of classical languages in particular is depicting of women as crucial in the transmission of infrequently discussed and often misunderstood or culture at the Greco-Carian archaic Miletos. misrepresented. The current situation in UK schools of constant qualification change against a background of deepening financial difficulty is forcing classics teachers to adapt to shortened timetables, an increase in the 1 2 diversity of students, and demands from parents, senior The panel opens up a conversation between the papers management and government to seek constant that explores interlinking questions, including: Why do improvement against ever-fluctuating standards. Despite contemporary women artists continue to look back to the this, teachers remain constantly alive to changes and classical past, and what does this tell us about the opportunities, and also seek new approaches of their currency of classicism? How do contemporary women own to match together their own teaching preferences writers and translators investigate and problematize the with the learning needs of their students. relationship between gender, authorship, subjectivity, embodiment, and creativity? And what does it mean to These three papers bring together some discussion about read the classics as a woman? what constitutes good classical languages teaching in today’s non-selective school system. Each contributor, a British School at Athens: see Current Research on and young, recently qualified classics teacher, draws on Future Prospects for the Greek City practical experiences in the classroom and offers advice and possible solutions to old and new problems. CUCD and CATB Pedagogy Panel: see The Virtue of Variety Beyond the Author/Body/Text: Contemporary Women’s Receptions of the Classics Sa. 9 & 11.30 Current Research on and Future Prospects for the Greek Conveners: Dr Tom Geue (St Andrews), Dr Emily Hauser City (British School at Athens) Sa. 9 (Harvard), Dr Holly Ranger (Institute of Classical Studies), Convener and Chair: Robin Osborne (Cambridge) Polly Stoker (Birmingham) Authors/speakers: Zosia Archibald; Cyprian Broodbank, Chairs and Respondents: Fiona Cox (Exeter), Elena Evangelia Kiriatzi, Andrew Bevan, & Ioannis Petrocheilos; Theodorakopoulos (Birmingham) Daniel Stewart Speakers: Josephine Balmer, Emily Hauser, Holly Ranger, Respondent: Lin Foxhall (Liverpool/Leicester) Tom Geue, Ruth MacDonald, Polly Stoker The Greek city lies at the heart of most of the work that Contemporary women writers are looking back to the Hellenist scholars undertake, yet if asked to conjure up a classical world more than ever to explore the nature of picture of that city, most would be hard-pressed to do so. their identities as women, authors, and creators (Cox There are good reasons for this in the priorities of 2011, Theodorakopoulos 2012). This panel brings archaeologists working in Greece, who have often either together creative practitioners and scholars—and those devoted their attention to individual sanctuaries and who bridge that gap—with the aim of unpacking the cemeteries, rather than the less glamorous residential complex relationships to canonicity, creativity, quarters of towns, or have preferred to focus on the embodiment, gender, and identity in women’s writing countryside and its settlement patterns, assessed by and classical reception. archaeological survey. As a result too much of the picture In part, the panel will consider the reception of ancient of the Greek city that is assumed in research and taught authorship, and explore how women writers are starting in the classroom is based on the atypical vicinity of the to prise apart associations between authorship, Athenian Agora or the excavations of part of Olynthos masculinity and privilege in conceptualisations of ‘the early in the previous century. author’ and the western literary ‘canon’—formulations But in the course of the past 20 years or so archaeologists that have persisted from antiquity through the classical have variously turned back to the city, devising ways of tradition (Plant 2004; Zajko and Leonard 2008). In using survey archaeology not simply to give a broad- addition, the panel will consider the dynamic between brush picture of settlement across the landscape but a creative practice and feminist theory, exploring the detailed picture of settlement within urban areas, and interaction between the classical and the theoretical in returning to urban sites for carefully targeted excavations the formation of contemporary identities—expanding the that can massively illuminate urban history. This panel panel’s consideration of authorship and ‘voice’ to will both give a glimpse of some of the most exciting work consider subjectivity and embodiment, in line with the that is being done, by presenting the latest findings from current turn to materialism