Table of Contents Maps 2 General Conference Information 5 Conference Programme 8 Details of Panels, Speakers and Papers 11 Details of Poster Session 22 Convened Panel Abstracts 24 Paper Abstracts 34 Poster Abstracts 139 Acknowledgements 143 1 Map of Streatham Campus 2 Map of city (showing location of Streatham Campus) 3 General Conference Information A very warm welcome to Exeter and the 2012 Classical Association Annual Conference. This booklet contains useful information on the practicalities of the conference and the programme, but should you have any questions, the Exeter team will be able to help: Organisers: Karen Ní Mheallaigh, Sharon Marshall, Myrto Hatzimichali, John Dillon Student Helpers (wearing dark green t-shirts): Zeppy Ainsworth, Katrina Alaimo, Mim Bay, Amy Channing, Olivia De-Beukelaer, Christian Djurslev, Sarah Fairhead, Marcelina Gilka, Sam Hayes, Henry Lee, Chris March, Katy McIntosh, Stefanie Metcalf, Jonny Miller, Monique Padelis, Lizzie Salmon, Stephanie Schnobel, Sara Steel, Charlie Tyjas, Patrick Ussher, Charli Wood Conference Desk: The conference desk is located in the foyer of the Peter Chalk Centre and will be staffed until 6pm each day. You should go here for registration and any assistance you require during the conference. Any important updates to the programme (especially last-minute changes), will be posted on a board here. Transport Parking: For those staying in university accommodation, car parking is available at Holland Hall and you can obtain a free permit from reception upon your arrival. Otherwise there is pay and & display parking on campus. Buses: D and H buses run every 15 minutes during the day and every 30 minutes during the evening. The D bus goes to the city centre (High Street) and the H bus goes down to Exeter St Davids Station. The closest bus stop to the Peter Chalk Centre is just downhill on North Park Road. On foot: The city centre is 25-30 minutes’ walk from campus and Exeter St David’s Station 20 minutes’. It is worth noting that while the campus itself is very hilly, the walk into the city and back is rather more level. Meals and Refreshments Tea and coffee: Tea and coffee will be served in Hall 1 in the Peter Chalk Centre. Lunches: Self-serve lunches will be served in the Holland Hall dining room. For those who have not booked lunches, there will be a number of cafés and restaurants open on campus, including Café Reed at Reed Hall, The Terrace in Devonshire House and La Touche in the Business School. Those who are going on excursions to Castle Drogo, Knightshayes Court or Killerton House and who have booked lunch on Friday will be able to collect a packed lunch from the conference desk in the Peter Chalk Centre. Dinners: A self-service dinner will be served in Holland Hall dining room on Wednesday and Thursday evening. The Association Dinner will take place on Friday evening in the Great Hall on Streatham campus. Please inform waiting staff of any dietary requirements. Receptions There will be a reception on Wednesday evening at 7pm in the Peter Chalk Centre and a Champagne Reception on Friday evening at 7pm in the Terrace, sponsored by Cambridge University Press. There will also be a small reception hosted by Oxford University Press at their bookstall in the Peter Chalk Centre from 4.30pm on Thursday. Conference bar The glass fronted split-level mezzanine bar located in Holland Hall is the designated Conference meeting place. 4 Bookstalls The following publishers and organisation have stalls in Hall 2 of the Peter Chalk Centre: Bloomsbury Academic/Bristol Classical Press Brill Cambridge University Press The Classical Association The Classics Bookshop De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Exeter University Press Harvard University Press IB Tauris JACT Oxbow: Combined Academic Publishers Oxford University Press Taylor and Francis Wiley-Blackwell Internet access To use any of the public access PC clusters (in the library, for example) or to log-on to the University of Exeter wifi network, you will need to collect guest account login details from the conference desk in the Peter Chalk Centre. Excursions Four excursions have been arranged for delegates on Friday afternoon. Castle Drogo ‘The last castle to be built in England’, this remarkable granite building, set above the Teign Gorge, is a surprisingly warm and comfortable family home, now owned by the National Trust. Commissioned by retail tycoon Julius Drewe, it was built in the 1910s and 1920s from designs by Sir Edwin Lutyens. The castle took many years to complete, with the First World War and the economic downturn causing many delays, and borrows styles of castle-building from the medieval and Tudor periods, along with more minimalist contemporary approaches. A notable feature is the encasement of the service staircase, around which the main staircase climbs. The defensive characteristics of Castle Drogo are essentially decorative and, behind the imposing façade, poignant family keepsakes sit alongside 17th-century tapestries. The dramatic Dartmoor setting in which it sits can be appreciated from the delightful formal garden and rhododendron valley. Knightshayes Court One of the finest surviving Gothic Revival houses, built in the lush landscape of mid-Devon, Knightshayes Court is a rare example of the work of the eccentric and inspired architect William Burges. Built for the grandson of pioneer lace-maker John Heathcoat in 1869, the house is an exciting architectural experience, with extraordinary ‘medieval’ romantic interiors, rich decoration and ceramics. Since the National Trust took over guardianship of the house in 1973, it has sought to recover and restore as many of Burges’s fittings as possible, including some ‚sparkling‛ ceilings, such as that in the Drawing Room, which was discovered in 1981, having been boarded over as early as 1889. Outside of the house, the restored and fully productive organic kitchen garden is a 5 treat for everyone who enjoys local produce. The vast garden beyond, which was the Heathcoat Amory family’s great passion, is renowned for its rare trees, shrubs and seasonal colours. Killerton House Killerton is an 18th-century house with a hillside garden in Broadclyst, near Exeter, owned by the National Trust since 1944. At over 2,590 hectares, the Killerton estate is one of the largest the Trust has acquired. A steep wooded hillside within the estate includes the remains of an Iron Age Hill fort, which has also yielded evidence of Roman occupation. The house itself, built for the Acland family in 1778, now brings to life generations of the Acland family as the National Trust displays it as a much-loved and comfortable family home. It is also home to a collection of 18th- to 20th- century costumes, originally known as the Paulise de Bush collection, exhibited in period rooms. The garden, created in the 1770s by John Veitch, one of the leading landscape designers of the time, features magnolias and rare trees, as well as an ice house and early 19th-century summer house. St Peter’s Cathedral, Exeter Saint Peter’s Cathedral is an Anglican Cathedral and seat of the Bishop of Exeter. Work on the Cathedral began in 1114 and it was consecrated in 1133, but the pair of massive towers is all that remains of the original building today. The late medieval rebuilding was started by Bishop Bronescombe in the 1270s and was completed in the 14th century, and the West Front is decorated in the style of the period, with the lowest tier of figures displaying some of the finest medieval figure sculptures in England. The carving is particularly well-preserved in the South Porch, where there is a scene of the Annunciation and a Nativity scene opposite. The upper row of figures with Christ and the 12 apostles at the centre was added in about 1460-80. The Cathedral has the longest unbroken stretch of Gothic stone vaulting in the world. Other features of particular interest include the Bishop’s Throne, one of the finest pieces of woodwork of the late 14th century; an astronomical clock made in 1376; and original glass in the East Window. The excursions to Catsle Drogo, Knightshayes Court and Killerton house will begin at 1pm and packed lunches will be provided for those who have booked lunch. Coaches will leave from Holland Hall, and they will return there by 4.30pm. Delegates taking the guided tour of Exeter Cathedral should meet at the Cathedral at 2pm. You may wish to walk into the city or take the D bus from campus and ask for the stop on Queen’s Street (next to Marks & Spencer). For those not going on excursions, there will be a screening of the 2011 film The Eagle in Newman C in the Peter Chalk Centre from 2pm on Friday. There will also be an opportunity to sign-up for a guided tour of the city’s recently refurbished Royal Albert Memorial Museum. The sign-up sheet will be available on Wednesday and Thursday at the conference desk in the Peter Chalk Centre and places are limited. Academic Programme Papers: Sessions will follow the usual format of the Classical Association Conference with papers of 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes for discussion. We hope that you will understand that with so much on offer, you may find clashes between things that interest you, but you are welcome to move between rooms and panels at the end of individual papers. Any last-minute changes to the programme that follows (due to illness etc.) will be advertised on the conference noticeboard in the foyer of the Peter Chalk Centre. For chairs and speakers: So that we can keep to time and allow people to move between sessions, we would ask that papers are kept strictly to 20 minutes with a further 10 minutes for discussion.