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Welcome to the 25th issue of the CRSN Newsletter(January 2014)

1. Welcome

We would like to extend a warm welcome to the network’s three new

individual members:

Dr Maik Goth, at the Department of English,Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Professor Glenn W. Most, at Classe di Lettere,Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa

Dr Trish Thomas, independent scholar

2. News

This year’s KCL’s Greek play is The Wasps by Aristophanes, and will be performedfrom 12–14 February 2014 in matinee and evening performances at theGreenwood Theatre at Guy’s campus.

Tickets at www.kcl.ac.uk/greekplay

CUCD report about CRSN’s Greek Tragedy, Women and War workshop(27/06/2013):

‘Teaching in the Round: Classical Reception Studies and Interactive Workshops’Anastasia Bakogianni

Link: http://www.rhul.ac.uk/classics/cucd/Bakogianni.pdf

3. Forthcoming Events in 2014

In the Wake of OdysseusMuseum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge

29 January 2014Cast Gallery at 1:15-2pm

The myth of Odysseus and his long voyage home to Ithaca has been a source ofinspiration to great writers for almost three thousand years. In this poetry reading we


shall revisit his main ports of call, retracing the familiar journey in the company ofpoets ranging from George Chapman to Carol Ann Duffy, as they retell, reimagineand reinvent Homer’s immortal tale, asking us to consider the ancient characters andsituations in new ways. Their poems will be read over lunchtime by a half-dozenmembers of the University, young and not-so-young, in the evocative Cast Gallery atthe heart of the Classics Faculty.

For more information see: http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/museum/things-to-do/events/adult-events

Contact: Jennie Thornber, Museum Education and Outreach CoordinatorLocation: Museum of Classical Archaeology, Faculty of Classics, University ofCambridge, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DAwww.classics.cam.ac.uk/museum

War… Love… Politics…4 February 2014, 18.30King’s College London

A debate hosted by King’s College London on the relevance of Greek drama today.Event presented under the auspices of the 2014 Hellenic Presidency of the Council ofthe European Union, in cooperation with the Embassy of Greece and the HellenicFoundation for Culture, UK.

Panel: Tom Holland (best-selling historian), Natalie Haynes (comedian/writer),Edith Hall and Rosie Wyles (King’s College London)

Chair: Dr Victoria Solomonidis, FKC, Cultural Counsellor at the Embassy of Greece.

Location: Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre, King’s College London, Strand CampusFree and open to all, booking essential at www.eventbrite.co.uk/directory

School of Advanced Study, University of LondonInstitute of Classical Studies

ALL WELCOME!

Feb 4 – Neville Morley (Bristol), ‘Reception, History of Ideas and Political Theory:The Case of Thucydides.’

Feb 11 – Danielle Frisby & Will Leveritt (Nottingham), ‘The Really Wild Show:Reception and Reworking of Animal Motifs on 3rd-century Sarcophagi and in FlavianEpic.


Time: 4:30Location: Room 246, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

Nemi: New Reflections on the Mirror of DianaFriday 21th February 2014

The University of Nottingham

This conference brings together a group of international scholars exploring differentaspects of the Roman sanctuary of Diana at Nemi - a site of particular importance forthe understanding of Roman religious cult, along with the reception of Romanculture in nineteenth century Britain. The presentations focus on new means ofanalysing specific groups of dedications from the sanctuary (marble sculpture andanatomical votives) on the sanctuary space and its recent archaeologicalexplorations; and on the future plans for the permanent display of the NottinghamNemi collection at the Castle Museum.

Programme

10:30 – 11:00 Arrival and Coffee11:00 – 11:15 Welcome Judith Mossman (Head of School, School of Humanities,The University of Nottingham) & Katharina Lorenz (Department of Classics).11:15 – 11:45 Presentation: Katharina Lorenz (The University of Nottingham), Thebiometrical analysis of the Fundilia portraits from Nemi.11:45 – 12:15 Presentation: Amalie Skovmøller (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek,Copenhagen), Colour analysis of the marble sculptures from Nemi.12:15 – 12:45 Presentation: Matthias Recke (Justus-Liebig- Universität, Giessen),Anatomical Votives.

12:45 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:00 Presentation: Wolfgang Filser (Humboldt Universität, Berlin – viavideo link), The terrace space and terrace sanctuaries.15:00 – 15:30 Presentation: Francesca Diosono (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität,Munich), Archaeological research at Nemi: recent work and results.

15:30 -15:45 Coffee

15:45 – 16:15 Presentation: Ron Inglis (Nottingham Castle Museum and Galleries),The Nemi Collection and its place in Nottingham Castle.16:15 – 16:45 Plenary discussion: Exploring Nemi.

Venue: Room A19, Trent Building, The University of Nottingham, University Park,NG7 2RD

Please register for this event through eventbrite:http://www.eventbrite.com/e/nemi-new-reflections-on-the-mirror-of-diana-tickets-10014510671

For external attendees not contributing a paper, the conference attendance charge is£15 to cover catering costs (coffee and lunch).


Institute of Classical Studies Special Guest Lecture

Professor Jon Solomon

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Ben-Hur: Avatar of the Commercially Successful Literary Property

Tuesday 25th February 2014

Senate House Room 349/50 at 6pm

The lecture will be followed by a wine reception. All welcome.

Before The Hunger Games, before Harry Potter, there was Ben-Hur (1880). Sellingseveral million copies in America and Europe, Lew Wallace's novel set in ancientRome and the Levant permeated popular culture with both an exciting chariot raceand a fictional eyewitness account of the Passion of Christ. Consumers never beforeseduced by such an alluring combination not only purchased the novel but eagerlybought some 20 million tickets to see tableaux adaptations, stereopticon lectures,and the spectacular Klaw & Erlanger dramatic production complete with an onstage,8-horse chariot race. Such unparalleled success in the popular arts andentertainments inspired dozens of businessmen to start up Ben-Hur companies andadvertise Ben-Hur name brands and products. The overwhelming success of thesebusinesses developed into the first sustained example of popular consumer culture.Modern scholarship has previously ignored the fact that this quintessentialdimension of modern economies originated within the parameters of ClassicalReception. This lecture will be profusely illustrated with unique, vintage images.

Commemorating Eric Dodds1 March, 2014

Corpus Christi College, Oxford

10.30 Registration/coffee11.00 Donald Russell (St John’s College, Oxford): ‘Memories of Eric Dodds’11.40 Peter McDonald (Christ Church, Oxford): ‘Dodds and the poets’


12.20 Anne Sheppard (RHUL): 'Dodds' influence on Neoplatonic studies'

1.00-2.00 Lunch

2.00 Scott Scullion (Worcester College, Oxford): ‘The Bacchae edition’2.40 Richard Rutherford (Christ Church, Oxford): ‘The Gorgias edition’3.20 Robert Parker (New College, Oxford): ‘The Greeks and the Irrational’

4.00 Tea

4.20 Chris Stray (University of Swansea): ‘Dodds and Oxford’5.00 Helen Ganly, Oswyn Murray and Ruth Padel: ‘Memories of Eric Dodds’

Organisers: Chris Stray and Stephen Harrison

Please book places (limited numbers) by e-mail to [email protected] £15, £10 for students, free for Corpus students; pay in cash on the day.For directions to Corpus see http://www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/Visitor-Information/.

Greening the Gods: Ecology and Theology in the Ancient WorldMarch 18-19, 2014

St Edmund’s College, Cambridge

This interdisciplinary conference will explore pagan, Jewish and Christian ideasabout the intersection of theology and ecology. How did these ancient thinkersunderstand their natural environment to stand in relation to the divine? And how didthis understanding condition human interaction with the natural world?At the same time, the conference will consider what impact, if any, ancient thinkingabout the environment should have on our own ecological thinking. As such thisconference aims, in a mutually reinforcing process, to shape both our knowledge ofthe ancient world and the work of those who are writing the theology, philosophy andethics of the twenty-first century.

The conference is sponsored jointly by the Classics Faculty, University of Cambridgeand the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, and will be held in St Edmund’sCollege, Cambridge. For further details contact the organisers, Dr Ailsa Hunt([email protected]) or Dr Hilary Marlow ([email protected]).

Speakers (listed in alphabetical order) and topics

Dr Edward Adams : Platonic worldviews and the cosmos Prof. Robin Attfield : The Treatment and Deployment of Ancient Thought by

Environmental Philosophers Dr Emmanuela Bakola : Earth as oikos and oikos as Earth: Interiority and the

Eco-logical Discourse in Aeschylus' Oresteia Prof. Melissa Lane : Sustainable Citizenship Dr Hilary Marlow : “Why is the Land Ruined?” Social, Political and Religious

Disjuncture in the Hebrew Bible Prof. Michael Northcott : Learning from Ancient Mesopotamia about Climate

Change Mitigation


Prof. Richard Seaford : Limiting the Unlimited in Ancient Greek Thought andPractice

Prof. David Sedley : Self-Sufficiency as a Divine Attribute in Greek Philosophy Dr Helen Van Noorden : The Sibylline Oracles and Apocalyptic Discourse

Venue: St Edmund’s College, Mount Pleasant, Cambridge, CB3 0BN

For more information please visit: https://www.faraday.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/Conference_schedule.php?Type=New&CourseID=60

Early Latin and late Latin/Romance: continuity and innovation12-13 May 2014

A workshop at the University of Manchester

Organised by Jim Adams, David Langslow and Nigel Vincent.

The aim of the workshop is to consider aspects of the relationship between earlyLatin and late Latin/Romance. There has been a tradition of observing in some earlytexts (notably the plays of Plautus) anticipations of features of the later language thatare not the norm in classical Latin (for references and some discussion, seeAdams, Social Variation and the Latin Language, Cambridge University Press,2013: 862-4). For example, it has been suggested that the preposition ad is alreadyused instead of the dative to mark the indirect object in Plautus, before reappearingwith this function later in low-register texts and in Romance. In any such case thequestion ought to be asked whether the similarity between early comedy and lateLatin reflects a genuine continuity in the spoken language. Could the continuity bemerely superficial, or might some late writers have been deliberately imitating comiclanguage for some reason? The workshop will consider these and related questionswith reference to vocabulary, varieties of language, and various grammatical andsyntactic phenomena.

The workshop will begin with an introductory overview of the issue given by DavidLangslow, after which there will be papers by: Brigitte Bauer (University of Texas atAustin), Philip Burton (University of Birmingham), Anna Chahoud (Trinity CollegeDublin), James Clackson (University of Cambridge), Lieven Danckaert (GhentUniversity), Wolfgang De Melo (University of Oxford), Eleanor Dickey (University ofReading) and Philomen Probert (University of Oxford), Giovanni Galdi (GhentUniversity), Hilla Halla-aho (University of Helsinki), Gerd Haverling (UppsalaUniversity), Marius Jøhndal (University of Oslo), Peter Kruschwitz (University ofReading), Stelios Panayotakis (University of Crete), Giuseppe Pezzini (University ofOxford)

Full titles and abstracts will be posted at the end of January on this page:http://www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/subjects/classicsancienthistory/events-and-seminars/earlyandlatelatin/

There is no fee for attendance, but there will be a small charge to cover the cost ofrefreshments. As the number of places available is limited, anyone interested inattending should in the first instance please contact Nigel Vincent([email protected]).


Ancient Greek Theatre in the Black Sea4th-5th July 2014

KCL Centre for Hellenic Studies Conference

The massive recent advances in our understanding of ancient drama outside Athens,in the Greek west, have just begun to focus attention on the substantial evidence fordrama in the ancient Black Sea. No tragedies survive set in the west, but two areactually set in the Black Sea world. This post offers advance notice of a majorinternational conference, hosted at KCL by the Centre for Hellenic Studies on July4th and 5th 2014, examining the evidence--literary and especially material--for thetheatrical performance culture of and in the Greek-speaking communities of theancient Black Sea. The conference is convened by Edith Hall and Rosie Wyles incollaboration with the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama atOxford University and with generous support from the SPHS.

Confirmed speakers include Alexander Minchev, Maria Vakhtina, Oliver Taplin,Wlodek Staniewski, David Braund, Stephanie West, Fiona Macintosh, MatthewWright, Felix Budelmann, Justine McConnell and Laura Monros-Gaspar.

In the evenings there will be performances of poetry, music and film related to theancient dramas set in or closely connected with the Black Sea world, includingreadings by Tony Harrison, a piano recital by Zachary Dunbar and the UK premiereof Staniewski's feature film Iphigenia in Tauris. Several further eastern Europeanscholars will also be giving papers but final details are yet to be confirmed. Bursariesare available for PhD students. For further information please [email protected].

Advance Notice: CRSN WorkshopImpact and social media

Classical receptions would seem ideally placed to engage with the current 'impactagenda' in UK research funding. Grant application forms include questions about'pathways to impact' and applicants often include some form of social media in theirresponses. We invite doctoral students and early career researchers to come andshare their experiences of using blogging, Facebook and twitter to disseminate theirresearch, create networks and promote their work. Whether you already use socialmedia or are simply wondering if there is any point, this workshop is for you. Whilewe'll have some experienced users with us (including Emma Bridges, founder of theFacebook page Classics International, and hopefully also Liz Gloyn, who blogs as'Classically Inclined'), the main focus will be on sharing our enthusiasms and ourreservations.

Organiser: Helen King (The Open University)


4. Calls for Papers

Citizens, Ancient and Modern: Concepts, Problems and Debate onCitizenship in the Ancient World and in Present Day Europe

10-11 April 2014Università di Urbino

Deadline: January 31 2014

How was citizenship defined in the ancient world? What did citizens’ rights entail inthe field of social and political life, and in the broader areas of culture and ideology?What aspects of citizenship and citizens’ status are still the subject of discussion inpresent-day Europe and how have the parameters of discussion changed ascompared to those in the ancient world?

The conference is designed to explore questions about the concept of citizenship andthe status of citizens from archaic Greece to late antiquity. It will offer both aninvestigation of case studies and a discussion of political and philosophicalreflections on citizenship, the means of educating people about civic ideology and thecultural implications of citizen/urban culture in the ancient world. At least one paperin each session will be devoted to an exploration of aspects of citizenship incontemporary debates and political discourse and will be offered by invited speakersworking in the field of law, politics, and philosophy.

Possible questions include:

In what ways was civic education promoted in ancient cities? How did being a citizenaffect individuals in politics, war, economy, religion and cultural life? To what extentwas the representation and self-perception of citizens defined by the position of non-citizens? What were the criteria for the admission in the citizen-body and in whatcircumstances could one lose membership rights? How did these criteria changefrom those of the Greek cities of the classical and Hellenistic period to those of theRoman Empire?

Proposals of no more than 300 words for 20 minutes papers in Italian or Englishare welcomed from all fields of Greek and Roman History. Anonymous abstracts inpdf format (file name: first three words of the title; email object: “Urbino graduateconference”) should be sent to [email protected] byJanuary 31 2014.

Travel expenses will not be covered, but accommodation will be provided bythe University of Urbino.

Indian and Greek ThoughtJuly 9-12, 2014

University of Exeter

Deadline: Before the end of January

This is part of the AHRC-funded project Ātman and Psyche: Cosmology and the Self in Ancient India and Ancient Greece, conducted by Dr. Richard Fynes of de Montfort


University and Professor Richard Seaford of the University of Exeter. Moreinformation about the project appears athttp://atmanandpsyche.exeter.ac.uk/ (you are welcome to contribute to theblog).

The theme of the conference is the striking similarities (and reasons for thesimilarities) in philosophical thought between India and Greece in the period beforeAlexander crossed the Indus in 326 BCE. Papers that concentrate mainly on one orother of the two cultures, or on a later period, are not necessarily ineligible, providedthat they are likely to stimulate discussion of the main theme.

If you would like to add your name to the many already on the circulation list, pleasecontact me at [email protected]

If you would also like to give a paper, please send me an abstract (300 wordsmaximum) before the end of January. Acceptance is not guaranteed. Fundingmay be available for the expenses of those giving papers.

Call for Host Institution for AMPRAW 2014

Deadline: 31st of January 2014

The Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in the Reception of the Ancient World is inneed of a host for its fourth meeting in 2014. The previous three conferences, held atUCL, Birmingham and Exeter, have been resounding successes and AMPRAW hascontinued to grow in size and reputation. In order to ensure that AMPRAW 2014carries on this high standard we are launching a competitive call for applicants tohost next year’s meeting.

Any group of postgraduate students is encouraged to apply for consideration to theAMPRAW2013 committee ([email protected]). To apply, we wouldappreciate a short description of the institution where you intend to host theconference, a list of your founding committee members, possible theme(s) anddirections in which you would take AMPRAW, and any other information you feelwould be of relevance. Please send your proposal of no more than 500 words to usby the 31st of January 2014.

We look forward to reading your applications. Please don’t hesitate to contact thecommittee with any questions.

Jasmine Hunter Evans, Shaun Mudd and Christopher DaviesAMPRAW2013 Committee, University of Exeter

PANEL Historia Proxima Poetis:

The Intertextual Practices of Historical Poetry

146th Annual Meeting of the APA (New Orleans, January 8-11, 2015)

Deadline: February 1, 2014


Organized by Lauren Donovan Ginsberg ([email protected])

In recent years, many have productively applied to historiographical texts themethods of intertextual analysis previously focused on the study of verse. At thesame time, increasing attention has been paid to the methodological issues raisedwhen examining the intertextual aspects of works that represent the lived past.Scholars have made the case that intertextuality's function and effect in historicalprose stands somewhat apart from what happens in verse due to, e.g., an historian'sadherence to the existing historical record, the difficulty of separating allusions toprevious historical events from previous textual representations of those events, andthe historical actor's own ability to generate allusions to the past. And yet throughoutthis conversation, historical poetry has been largely left aside despite the naturalbridge it provides between historiography and poetry.

For historical poetry is as implicated in the 'intertextuality of real life' as its prosecounterparts are. While historical poetry's allusivity has traditionally been examinedwith an eye towards its literary rather than historical aims, its commitment tocommemorating the past subjects its authors to tensions similar to those of theirprose counterparts (e.g. commitment to an 'authentic' view of the past; adherence to'transhistorical' narrative patterns; the representation of historical actors shapingtheir own allusivity; the complementary uses of historical and literary allusions). Byinvestigating the intertextual practices and historical tensions within historicalpoetry, this panel proposes to push the boundaries of current thinking onintertextuality and history, challenging the dichotomy between prose and verse inorder to offer a more holistic view of intertextuality's role in shaping literarypresentations of history.

This panel invites contributions that tackle these issues from diverse angles andacross genres. Proposals might aim to synthesize or offer a typology of intertextualityin Greek and Roman historical poetry, or present case studies that elucidate thetension between allusion's poetic and historical aims (e.g. how Aeschylus' messengerin the /Persians/ claims authority through both his eye-witness status and hisHomeric metapoetic allusiveness; how Lucan looks to Caesar's /Civil War /as bothsource and literary rival). Through such papers, this panel aims to contribute toongoing debates about history's intertextual practices by exploring a diverse body ofliterature that bridges the gap between history and poetry.

Abstracts of no more than 650 words excluding bibliography for papers taking 20minutes to present should be submitted by February 1, 2014 as PDF attachmentsto [email protected]. Abstracts will be judged anonymously. Authorsshould follow the formatting guidelines for individual abstracts provided by the APAincluding the removal of details that might reveal the author's identity. All proposalsmust be submitted by February 1st.

http://apaclassics.org/annual-meeting/146/cfp-historia-proxima-poetis-intertextual-practices-of-historical-poetry

PANEL The Classics and Early Anthropology146th Annual Meeting of the APA (New Orleans, January 8-11, 2015)


Deadline: 15 February 2014

The Committee on Classical Tradition and Reception (COCTR) of the AmericanPhilological Association invites submissions for a panel on the theme ‘The Classicsand Early Anthropology’

Ethnologists and ethnographers, like many other intellectuals in the 19th century,often had their initial and even advanced training in the classics. Classicalscholarship, moreover, provided the budding field of anthropology with a wealth ofcollected data from foreign cultures, edited, translated, analyzed, and easily accessedin libraries and from the armchair. No other ‘other’ was arguably so well studied anddocumented. That anthropology and classics share an intellectual past is establishedand clear, but the nature of their interaction is neither uniform nor straightforward.How was classical material approached, adopted, and adapted, and through whichauthors and media? Why did ethnologists and ethnographers turn to the classics,besides availability and predominance? What did they do with the material? Thepanel, as envisaged, will aim to develop a nuanced picture of the early interactionbetween anthropology and the classics. The Committee, therefore, wishes to inviteproposals for papers exploring the use, interpretation, and influence of classicalmaterial and/or scholarship in the major ideas, questions, and debates of 19th- andearly 20th-century anthropology.

Proposals for papers taking no more than twenty minutes to deliver should be sentvia e-mail attachment (in Word format) to Mary-Kary Gamel at [email protected] no later than February 15, 2014.

Abstracts should follow the guidelines for the preparation of individual abstracts tobe found on the APA website (www.apaclassics.org). All submissions will be subjectto double-blind review by two referees and the panel as a whole evaluated by the APAProgram Committee before notification of final acceptance. The Committee reservesthe right to include in the full panel submission abstracts from invited speakers aswell as abstracts selected through this call for papers.

Geographies of Man:Environmental Influence from Antiquity to the Enlightenment

Friday 16th May 2014University of Warwick

Deadline: 15th February 2014

Keynote: Dr Vladimir Jankovic (University of Manchester), ‘On Climate Fetishism’

In recent years fears of climate change, resource consumption, and irreversibleenvironmental damage have made us more aware of how profoundly embedded weare in the natural world. There is growing concern not only with how we impactweather, climate, and landscape, but also with how these impact us in return,affecting our daily activities, shaping our individual and collective behaviour, andcontributing to the constitution of our identity in many complex ways. The goal ofthis conference is to historicise contemporary ecological discourse by exploring howthis dynamic interaction between human beings and their lived environments was


conceived of from Antiquity to the Enlightenment. While scholarly attention hastraditionally focused on the development of environmental ideas from the eighteenthcentury to the present, there is still great scope for further investigation of ancient,medieval, and early modern attitudes to the environment. How did human beingsrelate to weather, climate, and landscape? What was the interplay between theoryand practice—between environmental discourse on the one hand and practicalattitudes to environmental management on the other? How did social and historicalcircumstances contribute to changes in environmental thought?

We welcome 20-minute papers that address these questions from a variety ofapproaches and angles. Topics to consider include, but are not limited to:

• theories of environmental/climatic influence from Hippocrates toMontesquieu

• ways to overcome the environment• environmental medicine and relationships between place and health• foreign climes and their effects• identity and landscapes• attitudes to environmental extremes• engineered environments: gardens, natural laboratories, agricultural

improvement• eco-governmentality and ‘the state’• religion and environmental discourse• historical perceptions of resource consumption, climatic change and

pollution

Location: The University of Warwick (Coventry, United Kingdom).

We have a limited amount of money to help subsidise postgraduate travel andaccommodation costs.

Please send an abstract (200 words) and a one-page CV by 15th February 2014to [email protected]. Successful applicants will be notified by 15thMarch 2014.

Conference organisers: Sara Miglietti ([email protected]), John Morgan([email protected]), and Rebecca Taylor([email protected]).

Portraying the Prince in the Renaissance: The Humanist Depiction ofRulers in Historiographical and Biographical Texts

November 6-8, 2014Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Deadline: February 14, 2014

Organizers: Patrick Baker, Johannes Helmrath, Ronny Kaiser, Maike Priesterjahn

The collaborative research center Transformations of Antiquity at the HumboldtUniversity in Berlin is now soliciting abstracts for an international conference, to be


held 6-8 November 2014, devoted to the portrayal of rulers in historiographical andbiographical texts written by Renaissance humanists in the period from 1350-1550.In the larger context of interdisciplinary research on the transformative reception ofantiquity across the ages and the development of a nuanced theory of how such inter-epochal cultural change actually takes place, an équipe within the research center,led by Prof. Johannes Helmrath, has focused for the past nine years on the topic ofRenaissance humanist historiography and its relationship to ancient sources,methods, practices, and models. Having hosted conferences and issued publicationsthat approach this topic by way of language and media, literary practice and socialcontext, and the transformation of ancient narrative strategies, the research group isnow turning its attention to the portrayal of individuals in humanist texts.

An emphasis on contingency and human agency (as opposed, for example, to divineprovidence) has long been considered a hallmark of Renaissance historiography. Theconference begins from this premise but also aims to review it critically. Rulers, whooccupy a central place in both the organization and the content of so many historicalworks, will provide the focus. By investigating the manifold ways these individualsand their historical impact are portrayed, contributors will offer crucial insight intothis essential aspect of humanist literary production and the broader humanistconception of history. The texts and authors discussed at the conference shouldrepresent the broadest possible chronological and geographical spectrum (within theboundaries set) in order to facilitate the identification and description of temporalcontinuity and change on the one hand, national and regional similarities anddifferences on the other.

But what exactly is an historical text? As difficult as this question can be for modernscholars, it is even thornier when applied to the Renaissance. As opposed to ancientauthors like Nepos and Plutarch who distinguished clearly between biography andhistoriography, humanists were less scrupulous in observing the distinction betweenlife-writing and the narration of historical events. On the contrary, the line betweenthese activities is often blurred in humanist writings of an historical nature, whichtend to be characterized by a hybridization of quite disparate text types and asuccessful integration of various discourses. Thus countless ostensible works ofhistory, such as Paolo Emilio’s De rebus gestis Francorum (1539), are structuredbiographically along a line of founding figures and kings. On the other hand, writingswhose titles suggest that they belong to the genre of biography, such as LorenzoValla’s Gesta Ferdinandi regis (1449), appear to modern eyes rather as examples ofhistoriography. Yet again, a work like Thomas More’s Historia Richardi regisAngliae eius nominis tertii (1513) could legitimately be considered a biography. Thuswhen approaching the issue of how rulers were portrayed in works of history, itseems useful to undertake a broader investigation of historiographical andbiographical texts.

A primary aim of the conference is therefore to encourage discussion of thedistinguishing characteristics of and links between the various genres in which thehistorical portrayal of rulers features prominently. One thinks immediately of thenationally focused res gestae, decades, and historiae in which rulers play a decisiverole, such as Antonio Bonfini’s Rerum Ungaricarum decades (1503), Elio Antonio deNebrija’s Rerum a Ferdinando et Elisabe Hispaniarum regibus gestarum decades(1509), and Polydore Vergil’s Anglica historia (1514). The portrayal of individual


rulers is also a key element in biographically arranged chronicles and annals, such asHartmann Schedel’s Weltchronik (1493) and Johannes Aventinus’s Annales ducumBoiariae (1521). In addition, historical epics like Basinio Basini’s Hesperis (ca. 1450-57, on Sigismondo Malatesta), Giovanni Mario Filelfo’s Amyris (1471-76, on MehmedII), even Girolamo Vida’s Christiad (1535) should be considered, as could the editionof the medieval hexametrical work Ligurinus, curated by Conrad Celtis and othermembers of the sodalitas Augustana (1507). Nor ought biographical collections to beneglected; while Platina’s Vitae Pontificum (1479) clearly embodies a history of thepapacy, the political history of early-fifteenth-century Europe is inscribed in thevignettes of Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini’s De viris illustribus (ca. 1449). Discretebiographies, such as Tito Livio Frulovisi’s Vita Henrici V (1436), round out the list oftraditionally recognized historical genres. Yet a case can be made for others as well,such as satires, funerary anthologies, panegyric orations and poetry, funeral orations,hagiographies, and commentaries, all of which have a strong biographicalcomponent.

Beyond the question of genre, the theme of the conference could also be approachedby considering the various uses and transformations of ancient biographical modelsin humanist works. What influence was exercised by Suetonius and his thematic, asopposed to chronological, and thus highly selective mode of biography? To whatextent were humanist texts characterized by Plutarch’s comparative framework? Andwhat of other biographical modes, such as those of Jerome or Xenophon?

Many other approaches are possible. How are individual princes portrayeddifferently by various authors or across various genres? Do certain text types lendthemselves to specific kinds of rulers (dead vs. living, good vs. bad, foreign vs.domestic, friendly vs. enemy, etc.)? What is the social and political context of aparticular composition? What can be said about the causa scribendi, the stated andunstated intentions of the author? Was a work commissioned or not? Was it writtenin an encomiastic or invective mode? Beyond the auctoritas of ancient authors, onemight also consider the authoritative status of specific ancient and even medievalrulers, such as Alexander, Augustus, or Charlemagne. How were contemporary kingsand princes fit into bygone molds when their political or military accomplishmentswere described?

This call for papers is addressed to scholars of Renaissance humanism. Particularlywelcome are contributions on humanism in Northern and Eastern Europe as well ason humanist works with a non-European subject. Abstracts may be submitted inEnglish or German and should contain a maximum of 500 words. Please alsosubmit a one-page CV. The deadline is 14 February 2014. Submissions should besent as .doc or .docx files to [email protected].

Augustus through the Ages: receptions, readings and appropriations ofthe historical figure of the first Roman emperor

November 6-7th, 2014Brussels

Deadline: 28 February 2014


In 2014, many academic institutions and museums will celebrate the bi-millennial ofthe death of Augustus with colloquiums, exhibitions and publications. The life, thepolitical ingenuity, and the era of the founder of the Roman Empire have not beenhonoured or discussed in this manner since 1937-1938, when an exhibition, theMostra augustea della Romanità, at the instigation of the Fascist regime, celebratedthe two-thousandth anniversary of the birth of the Emperor. Yet the outcome of there-examinations in 2014 will not be complete if emphasis is not put on the enduringfame and fortune he experienced in the West, for this renowned figure created anempire which united, for the first time, the Mediterranean with the regions north ofthe Alps. The importance of this personage throughout our recorded cultural historymakes a multidisciplinary approach essential. It is therefore, as diverse field andperiod specialists, that we wish to invite our Belgian and foreign universitycolleagues to bring together their skills and knowledge - in the distinct fields ofhistory, cultural history, literature, art history, semiotics, etc. - to retrace the multipleinterpretations and appropriations of Augustus from his death to the present days.

A colloquium will take place in Brussels, November 6-7th, 2014 wherehistorians, philologists, archaeologists and art historians of different periods areinvited to present papers on various topics in accordance with the followingguidelines:

· Receptions of Augustan politics and ideology and their appropriations· Religious appropriations· Representations of Augustus in mixed media (e.g. comics, television series)· Augustus in literature and the arts, or in movies and on the Web· Memory of Augustus as the “urban designer” who transformed Rome into a city

of marble.

The presentations, which will last for 30 minutes, can be made in French, English,Italian or German. Paper proposals (title and abstract with a maximum of 500words) must be submitted to [email protected] by Friday February 28,2014 at the latest.

Organizing Committee: Pierre Assenmaker (F.R.S.-FNRS/UCLouvain), MattiaCavagna (UCLouvain), Marco Cavalieri (UCLouvain/Università degli Studi diFirenze, SSBA), David Engels (ULB, Bruxelles) and Costantino Maeder (UCLouvain)

Currencies between Cultures

Thursday 03 July 2014

The University of Warwick

Deadline: 28th February 2014

Keynote Speaker: Associate Professor Liv Yarrow (Brooklyn College, CUNY).

About the Conference: Though money is often characterised as an impersonalmedium of exchange, it remains intricately connected to cultural value systems,social relationships, and political regimes. These characteristics are linked to the roleof currency as a medium of commensuration designed to render equivalent andtransitive once incomparable objects, ideas, signs, and meanings. In this way money


goes ‘between’ cultures, and as a medium at the point of contact, money can oftenbecome ideologically charged. The eurozone, the rise of alternative currencies likeBitcoin, and the symbolic transformation of currencies during events like the Occupymovement ("We need a Revolution"), indicate that the social, ideological, andpolitical aspects of money remain key modern concerns. This interdisciplinaryconference aims to explore the differing ways money has connected, subverted, andentangled different cultures throughout history.

Proposals from a broad disciplinary spectrum are welcome.Possible themes include the use of currency in imperial and colonial contexts, in actsof resistance against a dominant power (e.g. through the use of alternative currenciesor the defacement of existing money), the role of numismatic iconography inarticulating relationships between different cultures, the role of money inentanglement and the creation of networks, and the strategies employed by mintingauthorities to ensure that their currency could and did travel between cultures.Conversely, papers may wish to consider how closed currency systems contribute todisconnection from other cultures, or whether the absence of a monetary systeminhibits intercultural contact.

Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be sent to [email protected] 28th February 2014.

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR A SPECIAL ISSUEThe Classical Canon and/as Transformative Work

Deadline: 1 March 2015

I am guest-editing a special issue of the journal Transformative Works and Cultureson fan fiction and the literature of Greco-Roman antiquity. The Call for Papers isbelow, or you can see it as a pdf here:http://nowandrome.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/classics-cfp-a4.pdf

The deadline for submissions is 1 March 2015 for publication in March 2016. I amhoping to publish a range of papers of interest to both classicists and fan studies/popular culture scholars, and would encourage anyone interested in submitting tocontact me directly at this address ([email protected])

Ika Willis, Lecturer in English Literatures (University of Wollongong)

Fan fiction is often compared to the literature of Greco-Roman antiquity. Both fanwriters and classical authors use the techniques of allusion, appropriation, andtransvaluation to expand on and/or to critique existing works. Both circulate workswithin small, intimate communities, constituted as audiences for transformativeworks by their detailed knowledge of a shared group of texts. Furthermore,practitioners and scholars of fan fiction and transmedia storytelling explicitly refer tothe megatext of Greek mythology as the historical precursor and model of the vastnarrative objects of contemporary popular culture.

Although the comparison is frequently made, it is rarely fleshed out, historicized, ortheorized. This special issue addresses this. We invite papers treating classical


literature/art as fan work; papers on contemporary fannish uses/transformations ofancient Greek and Roman literature, mythology, or history; papers investigatingsimilarities and differences between contemporary transformative fan work andclassical literature and art; and papers reflecting on what is at stake in making thecomparison: what potential benefits and risks does it bring? Submissions should beaimed primarily at a fan studies audience, but should also be credible contributionsto the study of classical literature and its reception.

We welcome submissions which compare fan fiction and classical literature inrelation to any of the following, or on topics not listed:

* Narratology: prequels, sequels, and paraquels; vast narratives and megatexts

* Intertextuality: allusion, hypertext, palimpsest

* Community: production, distribution and reception mechanisms

* Mythology: myth fan fic, fan fic as myth

* Canonicity: the value and status of transformative works

* Transmedia: fan fiction, fan art, classical visual and material culture

Submit final papers directly to TWC by March 1, 2015. Please visit TWC’s Web sitefor complete submissions guidelines, or e-mail the editors [email protected]. Contact guest editors with any questions orinquiries at [email protected].

Theory:Peer review. Length, 5,000–8,000 words plus a 100–250-word abstract.Praxis:Peer review. Length, 4,000–7,000 words plus a 100–250-word abstract.

Science/Fiction/History: The Literary in Classical HistoriographySeptember 11-12

President Hotel, Athens, Greece

Deadline: March 17, 2014

Hosted by Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Confirmed keynote speakers: Antonios Rengakos (Aristotle University ofThessaloniki) and Tim Rood (St. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford).

A significant trend in the study of Greek historiographers is to accept that their worksare to a degree both science and fiction. More and more, scholars accept thatHerodotus and Thucydides, for example, do not draw the same line between literaryand historical prose that we find in modern works. On the contrary, both authorsshow — at least on the surface — a concern for impact and accuracy. As scholarlyinterest broadens, in addition to evaluating ancient historians on the basis of the


reliability of the information they record, and verifying the narratives against variouselements of the material record (inscriptions, excavations, numismatics), new studiesare beginning to elaborate on the stylistic and narrative qualities of the textsthemselves. The organizers of the conference invite investigations into this newperspective. Papers considering any aspect of the literary qualities of Greek and Latinhistoriography are welcomed from scholars at any point in their careers.

We hope that the selected papers will encompass a wide range of historians from allperiods of the ancient world. Possible perspectives: - the intersections betweenhistoriography and other literary genres - narratological, linguistic, and theoreticalapproaches to historiography - the literary manipulation of military events and thecriteria of selectivity - the reception of ancient historical texts in othergenres - the scientific value of literary history - time and space in historicalnarrative.

Please send short abstracts (250-400 words) for papers of 20-25 minutes on theseand related themes to the conference organizers by March 17, 2014. The languageof the conference will be English. Organizers: Scott Farrington, University of Miami([email protected]) Vasileios Liotsakis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki([email protected])

The conference will take place in Athens at the President Hotel (www.president.gr).The conference fee will be 50 euros and includes coffee breaks and a dinner onFriday, September 12.

Psychology and the Classics: A Dialogue of Disciplines24-27 March 2015Leuven (Belgium)

Deadline: 31 March 2014

Key-note speakers: Rachel Bowlby, Christopher Gill, and Jennifer Radden.

This conference aims to bring together scholars from the fields of classics andpsychology in order to determine what they have to offer to each other in terms ofhermeneutic approaches, research questions, and methodological legitimation. Boththe field of classics and that of psychology are here to be conceived in the widestsense possible, comprising, in case of the former, ancient philosophy, history,rhetoric, and literature, and, in case of the latter, psychoanalysis, social psychology,theories of emotion, and neuroscience. A more extensive overview of the researchquestions that all of these fields can raise in relation to each other is provided in thetext below.

We welcome innovative contributions from a wide array of scholars. Preference willbe given to papers which have the potential to provoke fruitful interdisciplinarydiscussions in an open and convivial atmosphere. Abstracts for individualcontributions (500 words), panels (1000 words), or alternative formats,along with a short CV of 3 or 4 lines, should reach us before 31 March 2014 [email protected]. All proposals and contributions areexpected to be in English. Early career researchers are especially encouraged to send


in an abstract.

Organizing committee: Pieter Adriaens (KU Leuven), Koen De Temmerman(University of Ghent), Jeroen Lauwers (KU Leuven), Anneleen Masschelein (KULeuven), Jan Opsomer (KU Leuven), Hedwig Schwall (KU Leuven), Toon Van Houdt(KU Leuven), Demmy Verbeke (KU Leuven).

Psychology and the Classics: A Dialogue of Disciplines

Throughout its history, the field of psychology has entertained a vivid interactionwith ancient texts and concepts. Sigmund Freud introduced his theory about theOedipus complex using ancient myth and tragedy, Albert Ellis’ conception ofcognitive and emotional therapy was inspired by the Stoic Epictetus, and a 2012article by William Hirstein in Psychology Today makes a connection betweenSocrates’ daimonion and modern discoveries in the field of neuroscience. The field ofclassics has been less eager to adopt psychological theories into its hermeneuticapparatus. Admittedly, the last century has witnessed some effort, mostly byindividual scholars, but the attempts to read ancient literature and philosophypsychologically are rather scarce and have raised a good deal of skepticism amongother classicists. This conference aims to bring the fields of classics and psychologycloser together. On the one hand, it intends to explore what psychology can mean forthe classical studies. On the other, it also wants to demonstrate how classics can stillmatter for psychologists. In what follows, we would like to suggest some possibleapproaches and research questions emerging from the confrontation of these twofields. However, this overview is by no means exhaustive, and can of course becomplemented by other insights, studies, and methods.

1. Psychology for classicists

a) While psychology is likely to be associated by many classicists with psychoanalysis,the field proves to be much wider than just Freud and his followers. Psychology hasdeveloped into a more exact discipline, making use of measurable data in the brain toexplore the workings of the human mind in relation to body, behavior, and emotions.Is it possible to transpose the findings of these fields to ancient times on the basis ofattitudes and behaviors that can be observed by a modern interpreter, or do we getstuck at an insurmountable cultural barrier? Apart from that, it is worth askingoneself whether cognitive approaches in the field of psychology can teach us anythingabout, for instance, the validity of ancient philosophical thought about the humanmind, with its desires and emotions.

b) Within the tradition of psychoanalysis, there are many different paradigms whichmay be less known to classicists, such as ego psychology, self psychology, analyticalpsychology, relational psychology, Lacanian psychology, object relations theory, andinterpersonal psychology, all of which offer a particular perspective on the humanpsyche. Furthermore, in their work Anti-Oedipus, Deleuze and Guattari have made astrong plea against the reduction of human psychic history to the Oedipal trianglesubject-father-mother, which influenced a great number of cultural analysts. Canthese alternative views on psychoanalysis offer additional insights into the ancientworld?

c) Over the past few decades, there has been a fruitful application of psychological


theories concerning trauma in the field of literary studies. Recent discoveries aboutthe effects of trauma on the psyche of the individual have shown how trauma mayinteract and interfere with narrations of the self and narrations in general. Whileconcepts such as repression, memory, dissociation, and witnessing have shaped aframework to articulate these issues, the question remains what this theory can offerto the field of classics. The universal application of trauma theory in modern literarystudies makes us suspect that there is some potential to read trauma in certainGraeco-Roman narrations as well (think also of Jonathan Shay’s Achilles inVietnam).

d) Psychology can also play a prominent role within the modern paradigm of‘Classical Reception Studies’. To what extent can adaptations and psychologicalmodifications serve as a heuristic tool for the reconstruction of shifting mentalities?And, on a more theoretical level, since a scholar inevitably brings her ownassumptions to the interpretation of classical culture, what can the field ofpsychology offer with regard to her own self-understanding?

2. Classics for psychologists

a) To what extent can classical ideas about the interrelation between body and soulbe seen as the precondition (or an intertext) for the existence of a discipline such aspsychology? Is there truly something about the mind-body problem that goes beyondthe mere boundaries of discourse, or are we still trying to shrug off the burden ofancient theories concerning our own self-conception? Or can these theories pave theway for a more direct, non-Cartesian conception of the mind-body problem?Revisiting the classical heritage may teach us much about the nature of the moderndiscipline of psychology.

b) To what extent can ideas from the ancient world be seen as psychotherapy?Is the esthetic experience of katharsis solely to be seen as a modern construct, or isthere a ground for it in the ancient practice of performance and literature? Canancient philosophies be seen as a sort of psychotherapy, as Michel Foucault, PierreHadot, Martha Nussbaum, and Julia Annas claim? What are the necessaryconditions for psychotherapy (past and present), and can these conditions befulfilled?

c) From a more historicist point of view, a confrontation between ancient history andconcepts of modern social psychology (such as ‘group think’ or ‘the by-standereffect’) may reveal or undermine the universal nature of social group processes thatinfluence(d) historical events. Through such psychologizing interpretations ofancient history, events themselves may become more transparant, and thecumulative effect of such efforts may offer a deeper explanation for the occurrence ofspecific sorts of group-related behavior.

d) Classical Antiquity has witnessed the emergence of rhetorical theory, theapparatus of which has also found its way into modern psychological theories.Moreover, rhetorical approaches to psychology, such as Daniel Gross’s The SecretHistory of Emotion, may offer alternative views on the relation between the brain,the emotions, and society. Can readings of Aristotle and other ancient rhetoriciansinform further psychological research into social interaction and the dynamics ofpersuasion?


These issues can be dealt with in a theoretical way, but also through concrete studiesof modern cases or ancient literature. Participation is not restricted to psychologistsor classicists, but is also open to philosophers, historians, literary critics, and otherrepresentatives of the human sciences. Preference will be given to innovativecontributions which can provoke fruitful interdisciplinary discussions in an open andconvivial atmosphere. We welcome individual contributions, panel proposals, andalternative formats (videos, group readings, etcetera).

Towards the Authority of Vesalius: Representations of the Human Bodyin Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Leuven, 3-5 December 2014

Deadline: 15 April 2014

The authority of Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) in reviving the study of humananatomy is without any doubt a landmark in the history of science. Yet, hisbreakthrough was inconceivable without his predecessors’ works, and later on, hisown legacy would not remain untouched. This multidisciplinary conference aims atbringing together international scholars working in the field of theology, art history,philosophy, history of science and historical linguistics. Its goal is to conceptualizeand contextualize the interactions between, on the one hand, dogma and authority,and, on the other hand, the progress of empirical sciences, both in the developmentof anatomy and in the changing views on the human body. Part of the conference willdeal specifically with the creation and elaboration of scientific terminology in Greek,Latin and the vernacular.

Papers may be given in English or French, and should be 25 minutes long.

To submit a proposal, please send an abstract of approximately 300 words, alongwith your name, academic affiliation and contact information by 15 April 2014 [email protected].

The publication of selected papers is planned in a volume to be included in the peer-reviewed LECTIO Series (Brepols Publishers).

The keynote lectures will be delivered by Prof. Alain Touwaide (SmithsonianInstitute, USA), Prof. Ian Maclean (University of Oxford, UK) and Prof. David Trotter(Aberystwyth University, UK).

Venue: The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe, Janseniusstraat 1, 3000 Leuven,Belgium.

Detailed information about the conference onhttp://ghum.kuleuven.be/lectio/vesalius-call-for-papers

Miracles and Wonders in Antiquity and Byzantium16-18 October 2014

University of Cyprus


Deadline: 30 April 2014

Tales of miracle and wonder decorate both ancient and Byzantine literature andseem to have had a great impact upon ancient and Byzantine thought. A stronginterest in the wondrous is already apparent in the works of Homer and Hesiod.However, a more organized recording of marvels is detected much later, inHerodotus’s time, when marvellous stories and travel accounts of exotic places andpeoples are increasingly produced. From the era of Alexander and onwards suchstories are used by historians and rhetors in attempts to divinise the ideal ruler.Between the third century BC and the third century AD, the genre ofparadoxography, collections of stories relating strange events and phenomena,achieves great popularity, and influences another new genre, the Hellenistic novel. Atabout the same time, a number of stories circulate that relate the miraculous healingsof suffering people who practice incubation in Asclepian temples. Later the practiceof incubation is taken over by Christian pilgrims who are cured by saints. Miraculoushealings and other types of miracles that are associated with a particular Christianshrine become the material of a new genre, the miracle collection which is cultivatedthroughout the Byzantine era. Miracle stories are included in all Byzantinehagiographical genres, since they constitute the strongest sign of holiness. Miraclesand wonders are also found in profane Byzantine genres, such as chronicles andromances. Despite the fact that marvel literature enjoyed such a high popularity inantiquity and Byzantium, it has been mostly dismissed by modern scholars asdebased, boring and even unintelligible, an attitude that has condemned thisliterature to obscurity. The conference’s main aims are to bring to light miracle andwonder literature and to open up new avenues of approach.

Topics of exploration may include:

• Literary Theoretical Approaches• Cultural Studies• Psychological Approaches• Comparative Literary Studies• Linguistics

Specialists are invited to submit a thirty-minute paper in English on a relevanttopic.

Due to budgetary constraints, the organizers cannot cover the speakers’ travel andhotel costs. There is no registration fee for participation or attendance. Prospectivespeakers are asked to submit by 30 April 2014 a title and a 400-word abstractto Stavroula Constantinou ([email protected]) and Maria Gerolemou([email protected]).

Open Call for Letras Clássicas e-journal

Letras Clássicas is an annual peer-reviewed electronic journal sponsored by the

University of São Paulo’s Department of Classics. Authors are invited to submit

articles in English, French, Spanish, Italian, German and Portuguese on topics


related to the Ancient Greek and Roman world, including language, literature,

philosophy, history, anthropology, art, religion, history of classical studies as well as

reception of classical antiquity. Please read the link containing the instruction

for authors on our website:

http://www.revistas.fflch.usp.br/letrasclassicas

Prof. Paulo Martins - editor

Prof. Dr. José Marcos Macedo - co-editor

Prof. Dr. Alexandre P. Hasegawa - co-editor

5. Recent and New Publications

Classical Receptions JournalVolume 6 Issue 1 January 2014

Table of Contents:

Zina GiannopoulouFictional archaeologies of text and homeric reception in Zachary Mason’s The LostBooks of the Odyssey pp. 1-21

Stuart GillespieEnglish Juvenal translations in Bodleian library manuscripts pp. 22-47

J. L. HiltonTheodor Mommsen and the Liberal Opposition to British Imperialism at the time ofthe Second South African War of Independence (1899–1902) pp. 48-73

Vayos Liapis‘The Painful Memory of Woe’: Greek tragedy and the Greek Civil War in the work ofGeorge Seferis pp. 74-103

Corinna OnelliFreedom and censorship: Petronius’ Satyricon in seventeenth-century Italy pp. 104-30

Sophia A. XenophontosReading Plutarch in nineteenth-century Greece: classical paideia, politicalemancipation, and national awareness — the case of Adamantios Koraes pp. 131-57

Elizabeth JeffreysWe need to talk about Byzantium: or, Byzantium, its reception of the classical worldas discussed in current scholarship, and should classicists pay attention? pp. 158-74

Lorna HardwickIn Memoriam: Professor Ahmed Etman (1945–2013) p. 175


Ancient Comedy and Reception: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey Henderson,ed. by S. Douglas Olson (Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2013).

http://www.degruyter.com/view/supplement/9781614511267_Contents_en.pdf

Featured article: Maik Goth, ‘Exaggerating Terence’s Andria: Steele’s TheConscious Lovers, Bellamy’s The Perjur'd Devotee, and Terentian Criticism’ (pp.503-36)

Abstract: This article takes a fresh look at the reception of Terentian comedyin 18th-century drama and criticism, and reassesses the view that Terence was aforbear of sentimental or ‘weeping’ comedy. I offer comparative readings of two playsadapted from Terence’s Andria, Richard Steele’s quintessential ‘weeping comedy’The Conscious Lovers and Daniel Bellamy’s little-known ‘laughing comedy’ ThePerjur’d Devotee, situating them in contemporary literary debates, in which Terenceis cited as an authority to consolidate theories and modes of comedy and used asa source for critical attacks and defences. I begin with an examination of Steele’ssentimental interpretation of the homo-sum passage in Heautontimorumenos, andthen offer analyses of both adaptations. I close with a reading of critical responses toSteele’s The Conscious Lovers by writers such as John Dennis, the anonymousauthor of The Censor Censured and George Colman, who critique Steele formisunderstanding and misrepresenting Terentian drama.

Phillippo, Susanna, Hellenic Whispers: Modes of Greek LiteraryInfluence in Seventeenth-Century French Drama

Medieval and Early Modern French Studies - Volume 13, Oxford, Bern, Berlin,Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien: Peter Lang, 2013, 577 pp.

ISBN 978-3-0343-0851-9 pb. (Softcover)ISBN 978-3-0353-0539-5 (eBook)

Link to publisher's website page about the book:http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=69682&cid=5&concordeid=430851

Synopsis: Hellenic Whispers builds a picture of how Greek literature was receivedand reworked by the authors of seventeenth-century French tragedy. Using casestudies, the author establishes a new methodology for exploring the variety ofresponses and creative processes involved in these encounters with classical Greekmaterial. The book explores the complex interactions surrounding these adaptationsof Greek dramatic material, involving the input of scribes, editors, translators andearlier authors, and asks the important question of what these dramatists conceivedof themselves as doing. Focusing on a time and place where cultural predilectionsand a lack of linguistic training made engagement with the original Greek textsproblematic, the book explores the creative role of intermediary sources, the build-upof chain reactions between sources and the cumulative processes of recreationinvolved in the genesis of seventeenth-century dramatic texts. The volume also goeson to explore wider questions relevant to the classical tradition and issues of ‘sourcestudy’ and reception.


We are happy to announce that issue 8 of New Voices in Classical ReceptionStudies is now available on the journal's website at:http://www2.open.ac.uk/ClassicalStudies/GreekPlays/newvoices/Issue8/issue8index.htm

Issue 8: Table of Contents

Arachnean Encounters in Contemporary English Poetry: Hollander,Longley, StallingsTobias Allendorf, University of Heidelberg

The Italian Medeas of Corrado Alvaro and Pier Paolo Pasolini.Transformation of a Myth in Twentieth-century ItalyRoberto Chiappiniello, St. Mary’s School, Wiltshire, UK

‘The World Is Empty After The Romans’:Three Case Studies For TheReception Of Antiquity In The Writings Of Antoine Saint-JustBeatrice da Vela, UCL

Barbara Chase-Riboud’s Multimedia Receptions Of CleopatraGregory N. Daugherty, Randolph-Macon College, Ashland Va (USA)

Virgilising Late Antiquity: Servius and Claudian’s Reception of VirgilFrances Foster, University of Cambridge

Speech, Silence and Epic Performance: Alice Oswald’s MemorialStephe Harrop, Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance

The Research Center for Comparative European Languages and Literatures of theUniversity of Lausanne is pleased to announce the publication of a new editedcollection:

Mythes (re)configures. Creation, Dialogues, AnalysesCo-edited by U. Heidmann, M. Vamvouri Ruffy and N. Coutaz

In the twelve essays of this volume, the contributors engage with theoretical issuesfocusing on the dialogue between Greco-Roman myths and their re-writings indifferent cultures, genres and media. They also examine the links between researchon myths and contemporary artists‚ voices.

http://www.unil.ch/webdav/site/lleuc/shared/Flyer_Mythes_reconfigures_internet.pdf

Orders: Secretariat du Centre de Recherche en Langues et Litterature europeennescomparesC/o Mara Lanza, Bureau 4094, Quartier UNIL-Dorigny, Batiment Anthropole, 1015Lausanne, Suisse


Tél. +41 21 692 29 10e-mail [email protected]

With best wishes for the New Year

Professors Helen King and Stephen Harrison (CRSN co-coordinators)

Anastasia Bakogianni (CRSN Administrator)

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