UK Classical Association Conference Swansea University, 17–20 April 2020: Abstracts CONTENTS Friday 17 April 15:30 Needed: A unified voice for Classics in the UK? Listening to and Learning from the Experiences of the USA [followed by Workshop facilitated by S. Hunt and C. Ryan] Hunt, S. Introduction Carlon, J. Via Media—Best Practices in the Latin Classroom Whitchurch. B. In Medias Res: Effects of the CI and Traditionalist Debate through Case Studies in Boston, NYC, and DC Kitchell, K. Dies Irae: The Perils of Latin Pedagogical Trench Warfare 7.00 pm ‘Ancient Global Connections’ Musié, M. Ge’ez Manuscripts and the Spread of Early Christianity Whitfield, S. Shared Aesthetics across Afro-Eurasia Scott, M. Forming Opinions of Global Trading Partners Morgan, Ll. Heracles and Cultural Integration Saturday 18 April Session 1. 9:00–11:00 Commentaries, Interrupted. Prodi, E. Commenting Fragments: P.Oxy. 2636 Andolfi, I. Retrieving the Origins of Commentaries: Protagoras on Homer Coward, T. R. P. Two Fragmentary Rhodian Commentators: Attalus and Aristocles Cartlidge, B. Could They Put Humpty Together Again? Speakers and Commentators in Athenaeus Ancient Regionalism within a Larger Context: Regions within Leagues, Kingdoms and Empires (Part 1 of 3) Pretzler, M. Sparta and Peloponnesian Regionalism in the Classical Period Husøy, T. Thessaly and the Origin of Regionalism in Central Greece Aston, E. Slippery Customers: Diplomacy with the Thessalians in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC Helm, M. Regionalism in the Northern Hellenistic Peloponnese in the Third Century 1 Storying Gendered Emotions in Classical Antiquity: Embodied Narratives (Part 1 of 2) [Panel supported by Women’s Classical Committee UK] Blanco, C. Beneath the Skin: Investigating Cutaneous Conditions as Somatisations of Gendered Emotions Chow-Kambitsch, E. Behind Her Twisted Eyes: Symptoms of Lethal Ecstasy in Euripides Ace, A. (Gendered) Emotions in the Midwife Metaphor of Plato’s Theaetetus Watkins Nattermann, I. Unveiling Gestures in Colluthus’ The Abduction of Helen: Aidos, Female Sexuality, and Rape Martial Nobili, M. Kissing the Crippled Kaiser, J. The Body of the Book: Martial’s Reception of the Augustan Book- apostrophe Gianni, G. Martial, Masculinity and Sexuality in the Erotion Cycle (5.34, 5.37, 10.61) Tafaro, A. Omnis Caesareo cedit labor amphitheatro. Power and Monuments in Martial’s Liber Spectaculorum Unlocking Greek Epigraphy: Widening the Audience of Ancient Greek Inscriptions Lambert, S. Attic Inscriptions Online Holliday, S. Teaching Inscriptions in the Secondary Classroom Liddel, P. The Attic Inscriptions in UK Collections Project: Lyme Park Brunet, M. IG Louvre and E-STAMPAGES Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Culture: Experiences, Representations, Meanings’ Aguirre, M. Representing Night and Darkness in Greek Vase-painting Boutsikas, E. Light and Shadow Effects at the Temple of Epikourios Apollo in Bassae: Time, Experience, Cognition Eidinow, E. The Quality of ‘Darkness’ at the Siege of Plataea Buxton, R. Helios on Rhodes (and Asklepios on Kos): Contrasting Aspects of Greek Religious Experience Homer and Pindar Nelson, T. Homer, Hesiod and a Footnoting φασί De Brose, R. P. The Semantics of kômos in Pindar: a Cognitive Approach Gazis, G. Which path will you follow? Homer’s universe and Pindar’s afterlife Hellenistic Culture Meccariello, C. Ecphrastic Epigram and the Politics of Education in Ptolemaic Egypt Massimo, D. Poverty and poor people in Leonidas of Tarentum’s epigrams 2 Pasquariello, G. Kalleixenos of Rhodes (FGrH 627 F2) and the Alexandrian Pompe. Pan-Hellenic echoes of the Ptolemaic rulership in an erudite context Daly, A. Lovers of Sights and Sounds: Herodas’ Reading of Plato Classics for (Good and) All: Classics education as a force for social change Bristow, C. Taking on Taboo: breaking silence through the power of Classical myths and stories Padilla Peralta, D. Towards an anti-racist Classics: citational justice Hay, L. Re-queering the Classics classroom Haley, M. Classics in State Classrooms Session 2. 11:30–13:00 Swansea Classics [Panel supported by Adran Glasurol Graddedigion Cymru (Classical Section, Wales Graduates)] Davies, C. D. Emrys Evans and Classics in Wales Stray, C. Benjamin Farrington: scholarship, science and Communism Lloyd, A. B. Classical and Egyptological Synergies Ancient Regionalism within a larger context: Regions within leagues, kingdoms and empires (Part 2 of 3) Wu, C. Changes in Local Time-Reckoning Practice as an Indicator of Regionalism in Coastal Paphlagonia during the Roman Imperial Period Pearson, C. Local Culture in the Demes of Southern Attica Ocansey, D. Geopolitics of Classical Athens: Broken Paradigm or Viable Perspective for Ghana, A Developing Nation? Beyond a Binary Sappho: Rethinking Reifications of Sappho’s Gender and Sexuality in Reception Sachs, R. Beyond a Lesbian-Feminist Sappho: (Homo)eroticism in Sappho’s Fragments and Monique Wittig’s The Lesbian Body Martorana, S. ‘Writing like a man, becoming-woman’: gender-queerness and literary creation in the Epistula Sapphus Palermo, S. Searching for Sappho: The Poet of Lesbos in Spain between 19th and 20th Century Exempla in practice Morrell, K. Exempla and electoral reform in the late Roman republic Lawrence, S. Making an example of Socrates: philosophy and exemplarity in Valerius Maximus 7.2 Langlands, R. Wisdom into practice: Philo of Alexandria, the gymnosophists, and ancient exemplary ethics 3 Reception Influence (Part 1 of 2) Sebastià-Sáez, M. Amélie Nothomb’s Le crime du comte Neville (The Crime of Count Neville): the myth of Iphigenia in a contemporary fairy tale Zhang, D. The Other’s Other: the reception of Euripides’ Medea in China Ryan, C. Reading the Reformation through Greek tragedy: Melanchthon, Camerarius, the New Testament and Sophocles Smashing pots. New approaches to fragments of ancient vases (Part 1 of 2) Lindenlauf, A. Practices of repair, re-use and re-utilization of pottery at Naukratis Holly, J. & Conflicted Fragments Thornton, A. Romero Mayorga, C. Pottery fragments en vogue Greek Political Philosophy Okyere Asante, M. K. Plato’s Republic V: A Reading from an Afro-communitarian Perspective Hatzistavrou, A. Political authoritarianism in Plato’s Statesman Brouwer, R. Cynic and Stoic Cosmopolitanism The Case for Critical Ancient World Studies Padilla Peralta, D. Epistemicide and a New Disciplinarity: Prospects? Umachandran, M. Classics at the Borderlands: Decolonizing ‘Antiquity’ with Gloria Anzaldua Alli, Q. Classics and the Myth of ‘Access’ Accessing Classical Civilisation and Ancient History in Britain, Past and Present Perspectives [panel under the auspices of Advocating Classics Education (ACE)] Hall, E. Historical Overview Stead, H. Adult Education & Mass Market Publications in the Long 19th century Holmes-Henderson, A. Who has Access to Classics in Schools Today? Wright, P. Classics and Blackpool Session 3. 14:00–16:00 The Eye of the Beholder: The Critical Gaze and Visual Receptions Bevan, G. Medusa’s Gaze: Madonna as Spectacle Pucknell, D. The Older I Get, the Better I Used to Be Diver, R. Beautiful Art or Disturbing Sexual Violence?: Visual Receptions of Daphne in Children’s Books of Greek Myth 4 MacNeill, K. In the shadow of Orpheus: The contrasting representations of Hades as dangerous bachelor and faithful husband in The Book of Life and Disney’s Hercules Ancient Regionalism within a larger context: Regions within leagues, kingdoms and empires (Part 3 of 3) McAuley, A. Boiotia’s Northern Frontier: Regionalism in a Hellenistic Federation Bradley, G. Regional collaboration within Italy under Roman hegemony Brennan, A. Athens and the Anakeion: Assembling a Regional Cult Storying Gendered Emotions in Classical Antiquity: Sex differences? (Part 2 of 2) [Panel supported by Women’s Classical Committee UK] Molli, L. A female Iliad: reading Homeric emotions through Barker’s The Silence of the Girls Eidinow, E. Lost Stories? Women and Girl Children in Times of War Ngan, S. I’ll Make a (Wo)man Out of You: Narratives of Grief in Seneca’s Consolationes Maly-Preuss, J. Emotional and Moral Discourse in Early Christian Women’s Letters Literature of the Republic Persyn, M. Questioning the Survival of Lucilius’ Earliest Satires Thomas, D. Paene ad nullum usum aptus? The Cremona Fragment of Cicero’s Brutus and the Codex Laudensis Payne, M. The use of the translation paradigm in criticism and scholarship on Ennius’ tragedies O’Bryhim, S. Roman Comedy in Catullus c. 32 Narrating the Achaemenid King: Perceptions and Receptions of the Persian Monarch from Antiquity to Modernity Musié, M. The Persians and the Persian King in Greek and Roman Historical and Literary Tradition Almagor, E. Persian Politicians from Nepos' Vitae to Plutarch's Bioi Conroy, L. Achaemenid Usurpers and Liar-Kings in the Greco-Roman Literary Tradition on Alexander’s Persian Campaigns Llewellyn-Jones, L. Cyrus the Great, Caught Between Persia and Iran Smashing Pots. New approaches to fragments of ancient vases (Part 2 of 2) Nørskov, V. Piecing together the biographies of fragments Tsiafaki, D. From fragments to pots through 3D digitization Smotherman Bennett, D. & Athena's Repository: A gathering space for Attic sherds Smith, A. C. 5 The New Plato Text Curtolo, M.V. The Philological Contribution of the Papyri of Plato: an Overall Assessment Herrmann, F.G. The text of Plato’s Parmenides Strachan, C. A crux in Plato’s Symposium Joyal, M. Reading Alcibiades in the Empire and Late Antiquity Narrating the Past, Transforming the Present: Unravelling Collective Memory