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FIEC / CA 2019 PANEL ABSTRACTS FIEC / CA 2019 15th Congress of the Fédération internationale des associations d’études classiques / Classical Association ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2019 Institute of Education & Senate House, London Thursday 4 July – Monday 8 July 2019 PANEL ABSTRACTS The abstracts have been arranged by day and session. Each panel abstract is followed by individual paper abstracts. An alphabetical list of individual speakers can be found at the end of the publication. 2 | FIEC / CA 2019 – ABSTRACTS Friday 5 July 2019 – Session 1 1A – CA PANEL: TEACHING THE1 UNDERGRADUATES OF 1B – MOVEMENTS AND MOMENTS IN CLASSICAL 2019: A Global Perspective (presentations and round table) PUBLISHING PANEL ABSTRACT PANEL ABSTRACT A conference as diverse and international as FIEC2019 This panel takes a long view of Classical publishing and represents a valuable opportunity to explore the changing seeks to understand significant movements and moments nature of university classics teaching across the globe. In in its Anglophone history in a European and global context. particular, what expectations, skills and experiences do The panel has at its centre the production of classical texts the students of 2019 bring to their studies? And how are and commentaries, from the 1840s to the present. There are instructors in different countries catering for this changing three interwoven themes: changing relationships between student body? Anglophone and continental European scholarship since the 19th century; fears of and adaptations to a perceived In this panel we aim to explore the changing nature of decline in linguistic competence; and the place of women in the educational climate in different countries and, in classical publishing. Key issues include: degrees of scholarly particular, the way in which university classics instructors engagement with – and ignorance of – German scholars and are reacting to new demands and a changing student base. scholarship; the question of balance between knowledge The UK has been through its own changes over the last of the ancient languages and the need to provide readers generation, with a smaller percentage of students studying with translation, grammatical and interpretative help; the ancient languages at schools and with more and more neglected history of female editors of texts and commentaries students encountering classics for the first time at university. (and other genres in classical publishing); and the question of But every country has its own story to tell and is changing in balance between schools, universities and the general reader. its own distinct way. This panel and round table discussion brings together speakers from eight countries in an attempt to INDIVIDUAL ABSTRACTS air both common and specific challenges and, importantly, to a. Christopher Stray (Swansea University, UK) highlight innovative and inspiring solutions to educating the Brexit as banquet, or, leaving the fellowship of nations. The next generation of classicists. Classical Museum and the Bibliotheca Classica. The first part of this session will comprise a series of short In 1903, A.E. Housman wrote that presentations from the perspective of countries as diverse as Australia, Brazil, China, France, Norway, Poland, the United ... after 1825 ... England disappeared from the Kingdom and the United States. Following this there will be a fellowship of nations for the next forty years. [English round table discussion to which delegates are warmly invited classical scholars] ... having turned their backs on to contribute as audience members. Europe and science and the past ... sat down to banquet on mutual approbation, to produce the Contributors include Classical Museum and the Bibliotheca Classica, and to Australia, Paul Roche (The University of Sydney) perish without a name. Brazil, Renata Senna Garraffoni (Universidade Federal do Paraná) The journal Classical Museum (1844-50) and the edition China, Chun Liu (Peking University) series Bibliotheca Classica (1851-71) were published in the France, Valérie Fromentin (Université Bordeaux Montaigne) 25 years before British women were able to access higher Norway, Mathilde Skoie (University of Oslo) education. Housman’s damnatio cast both publications into Poland, Elzbieta Olechowska (University of Warsaw) outer darkness; my aim is to bring them back into the light, United Kingdom, James Robson (Chair) (Open University) and to reassess Housman’s judgement. In doing so, I shall look United States, Sonia Sabnis (Reed College) at the relationship between British and German scholarship, at changes in schools and universities, and at the role of publishing in scholarship and education. FIEC / CA 2019 – ABSTRACTS | 3 Friday 5 July 2019 – Session 1 b. Mirte Liebregts (Radboud University, Netherlands) scholarship by looking at three different genres: the text/ What about a bilingual book series? Safeguarding the Classics commentary, the biographical dictionary, and the Festschrift. with James Loeb Much recent work has focused on the biography and importance of women in archaeology and classical studies Thanks to W.M. Calder III, we now know that Ulrich von against the background of a history of neglect, although Wilamowitz-Moellendorff discouraged James Loeb from it has often looked at individuals in isolation. In so doing publishing a bilingual book series: he considered the inclusion it has perhaps failed to identify, and undervalued, aspects of both text and translation pernicious, and the series’ where women have been particularly prominent. In addition, extensive scope utopian. The German scholar’s advice was language difficulties have often led to the neglect of women’s not heeded: volumes of the Loeb Classical Library have been achievements or limited the circulation of their work. By appearing since 1912. What were James Loeb’s motivations in examining the history of these genres within classical studies, creating a monumental book series, with its format of text and including online publications, I propose to suggest how this facing translation, and a content ranging from Homer to John approach may achieve a wider perspective across the full Damascene? How did the international scholarly community range of women’s scholarship. react to and engage with his plan? This paper argues that Loeb’s endeavour to make Greek and Latin literature 1C – NEW DIRECTIONS IN PLATONIC SCHOLARSHIP more accessible should be seen as a direct reaction to the intercontinental fear of the decline of classical knowledge, and PANEL ABSTRACT documents the support Loeb received from many intellectuals There is a vast scholarship on Plato, but much of it centers of his time. around standard approaches to the same set of issues: the status of separate forms, the accounts of knowledge and c. Roy Gibson (University of Durham, UK) its object, and the characterization of Plato’s doctrines. The Green and Yellow at One Hundred aim of this panel is to introduce more flexible, dynamic, and enlightening ways of understanding the dialogues. Papers in The CUP “green and yellow” commentary series – known the panel explore: Plato’s use of various schemata that serve officially as “Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics” – reached in place of the forms, the way in which understanding the 100 volumes in early 2018 with the publication of Rhiannon process of inquiry serves Plato in lieu of a characterization Ash’s volume on Tacitus, Annals 15. The series began of knowledge, the way that the faculty of nous is linked to publication in 1970 with T.B.L. Webster on Sophocles’ and understood through the seemingly different faculty of Philoctetes. The aim of the series was clear: to provide phronêsis, the way in which the dialogues serve as protreptic ‘commentaries of a more sophisticated kind than the old invitations to a philosophical life rather than as expositions of Pitt Press editions, which were aimed at school pupils and settled doctrine. These papers are unified by their innovative concentrated heavily on grammar’ (Easterling). But how alternatives to traditional dogmas. to reconcile demands for greater literary and intellectual ambition in a commentary precisely at a time – at least in INDIVIDUAL ABSTRACTS the Anglophone world – of perceived decline in linguistic a. Edward C. Halper (University of Georgia, USA) attainment amongst students? Who now uses the green and A plea for second sailings yellows – and for what purposes? How has the series changed in its near 50-year history in response to the demands of its Platonic scholarship has been dominated by questions about market? Is account taken of an international market? What is separate forms. My aim in this paper is to highlight the extent the relationship with other series of commentaries published to which Plato, even when he acknowledges separate forms, in (e.g.) Germany and Italy? And what role have female editors does not rely on them primarily to solve problems, but draws played in the series? on schemata that serve in their place. The most famous is the “second sailing” of the Phaedo. After proclaiming that forms d. Graham Whitaker (University of Glasgow, UK) are causes, Socrates introduces an immanent substitute: Women’s contributions to classical scholarship as seen through Simmias is tall by partaking of Tallness itself, but also by a the history of some publication genres tallness in him (102d-103a), and soul is an immanent cause of Life itself. Similarly, the Republic argues for an immanent This contribution is an attempt to trace the development of justice, the Timaeus for an immanent goodness in matter women’s presence and importance in the history of classical arranged according to mathematical proportion (32b-c; 52a- 4 | FIEC / CA 2019 – ABSTRACTS Friday 5 July 2019 – Session 1 b), and the Politicus for an immanent unity when courageous d. Olga Alieva (National Research University, Moscow, Russia) and moderate souls are woven together (309a-c). Each Plato’s ‘Protreptics’ revisited: Towards a new reading of the strategy is well-known in itself, but assembled together they Clitophon provide powerful evidence of the importance of alternatives to separate forms. The spurious Clitophon has long been read as a cento based on some ‘Socratic protreptics’.