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ABSTRACTS (Listed Alphabetically by Speaker’S Surname) The Classical Association, Annual Conference: Reading, 2013 ABSTRACTS (listed alphabetically by speaker’s surname) Abstracts may have been edited for reasons of space. Sola Adeyemi (Loughborough) Jackie Elliott (Colorado) Amin Afrousi (Berkeley) Anthony Ellis (Edinburgh) Margarita Alexandrou (UCL) Heather Ellis (Liverpool Hope) Eran Almagor (Ben Gurion University) Loriel Anderson (Bristol) Barbara Fero (Bologna)) Clifford Ando (Chicago) Christopher Forlini (FU Berlin) Erica Angliker (Zurich) Andreas Fountoulakis (Crete) Carol Atack (Cambridge) Maria-Zoi Fountopoulou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) Abigail Baker (Birkbeck) Caterina Franchi (Oxford) Anastasia Bakogianni (Open) Signe Barfoed (Kent) Samuel Gartland (Leeds) Julian Barr (Queensland) George Gazis (Durham) William Barton (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute) Camille Geisz (Oxford) Paola Bassino (Durham) Roy Gibson (Manchester) Will Batstone (Ohio State) Kate Gilhuly (Wellesley) Michael Beer (Open) Barbara Goff (Reading) Klaas Bentein (Ghent) Abigail Graham (Warwick) John Bloxham (Nottingham) Alexander Graham (Durham) Agnes Blümer and Martin Stöckinger (Frankfurt) Gillian Granville Bentley (KCL) Edward Bragg (Peter Symonds College) Brenda Griffith-Williams (UCL) Joanna Brown (Open University) Robert Brown (Cardiff) Joshua Hall (Cardiff) Jenny Bryan (UCL) Benjamin Harriman (Oxford) Juliette Harrisson (Newman University College) Lilah Grace Canevaro (Durham) Thomas Harrison (Liverpool) Marco Catrambone (Scuola Normale Superiore) Myrto Hatzimichali (Cambridge) Annelies Cazemier (Copenhagen) Greta Hawes (Bristol) Alan Chadwick (City of London Freemen’s School) Sarah Hitch (Oxford) Chrysanthos Chrysanthou (Oxford) Christina Hoenig (Cambridge) Andrea Codispoti (G. d’Annunzio) Brooke Holmes (Princeton) Elena Colla (Parma) Gail Holst-Warhaft (Cornell) Clare Coombe (Bristol) Lloyd Hopkins (Oxford) Thomas Coward (KCL) Luke Houghton (Glasgow) Antonino Crisa (Leicester) Steven Hunt (Cambridge) Ersin Hussein (Warwick) and Massimo Raffa (Calabria) Nicolò D’Alconzo (Swansea) Jon Davies (Oxford) Naoya Iwata (Cambridge) Susan Deacy and Fiona McHardy (Roehampton) Matthieu de Bakker (Amsterdam) Anna Judson (Cambridge) Carina de Klerk (McGill) Tom Derrick (Bristol) Niki Karapanagioti (Reading) Werner de Saeger (Oxford) Grammatiki Karla (Athens) Elizabeth Dollins (Exeter) Matthew Kears (Birmingham) Vicky Donnellan (UCL) Antony Keen (Open University) Filip Doroszewski (Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski Urban Kirchler (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute) University) Dániel Kiss (Munich) Annemieke Drummen (Heidelberg) Ana Kotarcic (St Andrews) Page duBois (UC San Diego) Vasiliki Kousoulini (Athens) Matthew Duncombe (Groningen) Lynn Kozak (McGill) Daisy Dunn (UCL) Cezary Kucewicz (UCL) Jonathan Eaton (Newcastle College) Adam Lecznar (UCL) 2 Anna Lefteratou (Göttingen) Alia Rodrigues (Coimbra) Miriam Leonard (UCL) Chiara Rolli (Parma) Tzu-I Liao (UCL) Jeff Royal (RPM Nautical Foundation) Vayos Liapis (Open University of Cyprus) Kelli Rudolph (Grand Valley State/ Kent) Christopher Lillington-Martin (Taunton School) Thom Russell (Oxford) Helen Lovatt (Nottingham) John Russell Holton (Edinburgh) Dunstan Lowe (Kent) Francesco Lubian (Macerata) Evangelos Sakkas (QMUL) Michele Lucchesi (Oxford) Kate Sanborn (Trinity College Dublin) Francesca Sapsford Shushma Malik (Bristol) Elizabeth Sawyer (Oxford) Fabienne Marchand (Warwick) Daniele Sberna (Durham) John Marincola (Florida State University) Cédric Scheidegger Lämmle (Basel) Ann Martin (Marist Senior School) Andreas Serafim (UCL) Lisa Maurice (Bar Ilan University) Georgia Sermamoglou-Soulmaidi (Virginia) Alexander McAuley (McGill) Edwin Shaw (UCL) Justine McConnell (Oxford) Julia Shear (American School at Athens) Sean McConnell (UEA) Cara Sheldrake (Exeter) Alexander Meeus (Leuven) Veronica Shi (Oxford) Katerina Mikellidou (UCL) Daniel Sicka (Oxford) Peter Miller (Western Ontario) Andrew Simpson (Catholic University of America) Jason Morris (Leicester) Stella Skaltsa (Copenhagen) Angelique Mouyis (composer) Alex Smith (Notting Hill and Ealing High School) Shaun Mudd (Exeter) Christopher Smith (British School at Rome) William Murray (South Florida) Laura Snook (Birmingham) Chris Spensley (Queensland) Bartolo Natoli (Austin) Catherine Steel (Glasgow) Tamer Nawar (Cambridge) Rex Stem (University College Davis) Sonya Nevin (Roehampton) Sarit Stern (Johns Hopkins) Matthew Nicholls (Reading) Lav Subaric (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute) Kate Nichols (Cambridge) Nigel Nicholson (Reed College) Tristan Taylor (University of New England) Karen Ní Mheallaigh (Exeter) Oliver Thomas (Cambridge) Marcello Nobili (La Sapienza, Rome) Christian A. Thomsen (Copenhagen) James Thorne (Manchester) Egidia Occhipinti (Oxford) Laila Tims (St Edward’s School, Oxford) Ellen O’Gorman (Bristol) Daniel P. Tompkins (Temple) Eleanor OKell (Leeds) Stephen Trzaskoma (New Hampshire) Olakunbi Olasope (Ibadan) Sebastiano Tusa (Soprintendente del Mare for Sicily) Devin Oliver (Edinburgh) Robin Osborne (Cambridge) Rebecca Usherwood (Nottingham) Oliver O’Sullivan (Maynooth) William Owens (Ohio) Cas Valachova (Edinburgh) Henriette van der Blom (Glasgow) Mario C.D. Paganini (Copenhagen) Ghislaine van der Ploeg (Warwick) Costas Panayotakis (Glasgow) Olga Vartzioti (Patras) Joanna Paul (Open) and Genevieve Liveley (Bristol) Berenice Verhelst (Ghent) Christopher Pelling (Oxford) Laura Viidebaum (Cambridge) Marco Perale (Oxford) Kostas Vlassopoulos (Nottingham) Giuseppe Pezzini (Oxford/Reading) Francisco Pina Polo (Zaragoza) Shane Wallace (Trinity College Dublin) Emmanuel Plantade (Lyon) Alex Wardrop (Bristol) Lucy Pollard Catherine Ware (Maynooth/Liverpool) Peter Pormann (Manchester) James Watson (The Perse School) Jonathan Prag (Oxford) Tim Whitmarsh (Oxford) Giulia Presutti (La Sapienza, Rome) Matthew Wright (Exeter) Patrice Rankine (Purdue) Maria Xanthou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) Anna Reeve (Leeds) Emanuele Riccardo D’Amanti (La Sapienza, Rome) Vasiliki Zali (UCL / Kent) Luke Richardson (UCL) Christodoulos Zekas (Open University of Cyprus) Emma Rix (Oxford) Helen Roche (Cambridge) 3 Sola Adeyemi (Loughborough) Panel: Frontiers Translated Gain: Colonial Power as an Agent of Postcolonial Conquests This paper examines how classical works translated and adapted by postcolonial writers expose the rebelliousness in and of Greek plays/playwrights as they highlighted the contradictions in the Greek state. In dramas such as Tegonni: an African Antigone (an adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone) and Women of Owu (Euripides’ Trojan Women), Nigerian writer breached the frontiers of contemporary cultural discourse to provide an insight into how Greek classical postures influenced and generated an impact into the understanding of cultural relationships and the formation of society in colonial Nigeria. This phenomenon was most directed in the dismantling and erection of recognized physical, psychological and political frontiers during the British colonial experiments in the country. Osofisan manipulates the internecine conditions expanded in the classical works of Sophocles and Euripides to expose the breaching of colonial power relationships between the Yoruba people of Nigeria especially and the various colonists. More importantly, these new postcolonial works have caused great interest in the discipline of Classics; for the past few years, the Classics department of the University of Ibadan has been reproducing Osofisan’s drama in performance in the teaching of classical literature, to address concerns of cultural hybridity and further cross or disregard identified frontiers. We aim to discuss how these experiments have been received and how they have created new views of classical discourse in the academy. Amin Afrousi (Berkeley) Panel: Plato Giving Birth to Immortality In Plato’s Symposium, Diotima claims that since Love (the lover) loves to own the beautiful forever, it must be that Love is of immortality as much as it is of the beautiful (207a3). However, instead of explaining the “immortal” possession of the beloved, Diotima goes on to explain a sort of immortality which mortals achieve through begetting (whether in soul or ideas). But what links the immortality achieved through engendering to the endless possession of the beautiful? This missing link is particularly perplexing since immortality achieved through engendering seems to be derived from an altogether different strand of reasoning, based on the premises that begetting is in mortal’s nature and that love is not of the beautiful after all, but of “engendering and begetting upon the beautiful” (206e); a portrayal of Love as a facilitation of the begetting of already pregnant bodies and souls in need of a medium to give birth upon. The “love is of immortality” argument therefore, seems to illegitimately transform the desire of the lover from “immortal having” to “immortal being.” I shall argue that the link lies in understanding the greater mysteries through Diotima’s portrayal of love as a “daimon” with a nature torn between having and not having. I shall argue that because the object of love in the greater mysteries is an immortal Form, accessing it requires a daimonic mediator, and explain the seemingly paradoxical procedure of accessing the immortal Form which rests upon letting go of the beloved over and over again in every step, thus precisely through not possessing it. I shall explain how the immortal beauty, which the philosopher is to see at the end, is revealed through love which is a having forever that is a not having at all.
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