Classical Association of Canada / Société canadienne des
études classiques
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C A N A D I A N C L A S S I C A L
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C A N A D I E N D E S E T U D E S A N C I E N N E S
VOLUME/TOME 2, NUMBER/NUMERO 7, 1996 03 15
Published by e-mail by the Classical Association of Canada/
Publie par courrier electronique par la
societe canadienne des etudes classiques
President: J.C. Yardley, University of/Universite d'Ottawa
JCYARD@AIX1.UOTTAWA.CA
Secretary/Secretaire: I.M. Cohen, Mount Allison University
ICOHEN@MTA.CA
Treasurer/Tresorier: J.I. McDougall, University of Winnipeg
MCDOUGLL@IO.UWINNIPEG.CA
Edited by/redige par
K.H. Kinzl, Trent University
KKINZL@TRENTU.CA
ISSN 1198-9149
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CONTENTS: Editor's rant / Classical Association of the Canadian West /
Ontario Classical Association / Conferences and guest lectures in Canada /
CAC Banquet / Latin course in Calgary / Excavations in Crete /
International Conferences / Amphoras Project / *Classics Ireland* / Societe
... d'histoire des religions / On-Line Directories of Ancient Historians in
USA and Germany
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Editor's Rant: Three conferences take place this weekend: an ancient
history meeting at the University of New Brunswick; a colloquium on
Augustus at the University/Universite d'/Ottawa, and the meeting of the
Classical Association of the Canadian West.
This is precisely what was intended to be avoided by the creation of
*CCB/BCEA* (*inter alia*).
I should be grateful to all colleagues for thoughts on how to avoid this
situation from occurring again. Maybe it just cannot be avoided, "*a mari
usque ad mare*" ...
K.H. Kinzl
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CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE CANADIAN WEST
UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG
March 15-16, 1996
(Sessions at the Hotel Fort Garry)
FRIDAY, MARCH 15
6:30 p.m. Registration (Gateway)
7:00 p.m. Session I: Classical Art & Archaeology
(Gateway) Chair - John Gahan
Michael Cosmopoulos (University of Manitoba):
The 1995 Field Season of the University of Manitoba Excavations at Eleusis
Mark Lawall (University of Manitoba):
Children, Weaving and Marriage on Two Lekythoi by the Amasis Painter
Albert Schachter (McGill University):
The Nyktophylaxia of Delos
BREAK
Patricia Vervoort (Lakehead University):
Ariadne: the Symbol of Human Solitude
Maria Papaioannou-Nasiopoulos (University of British Columbia):
Beauty, Virtue and Immortality: Identifying the Reclining Female from the
Via Latina Catacomb.
Lea Stirling (University of Manitoba):
Amphoras for Export: the 1995 Season of the Leptiminus Archaeological Project.
9:00 p.m. Reception (Mezzanine)
SATURDAY, MARCH 16
9:00 a.m. Session IIa: Roman Literature (Salon A/B)
Chair - Rory Egan
Michael Dewar (University of Calgary):
Semina Iustis Discessere Locis: the Ordered Universe of Claudian's De Raptu
Proserpinae
Alison Keith (University of Toronto):
Bacchic Themes and Imagery in the Minyads' Tales: Ovid Metamorphoses 4.1-415
Christopher Marshall (Trent University):
Backstage Plautus: Pseudolus and Curculio
Christina Vester (University of Calgary):
Seneca's Ulysses
9:00 a.m. Session IIb: Greek Literature &
The Classical Tradition (Salon C)
Chair - Martin Cropp
Laurel Bowman (University of Victoria):
Sex, Drugs and Prophecy: The Construction of Patriarchy in the Trachiniai
Annabel Robinson (University of Regina):
Jane Ellen Harrison: The Mature Years
Robert Todd (University of British Columbia):
Enoch Powell's Inaugural at Sydney -1938
10:30 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m. Session III: Arachnophobia (Salon A/B)
Chair - Mark Golden
John Porter & Ann DeVito (University of Saskatchewan):
Reflections on Developing a WWW Page for a Classics Department
12:00 Lunch and Business (Mezzanine)
2:00 p.m. Session IVa: Roman History (Salon A/B)
Chair - David Mirhady
Bernard Kavanagh (University of Alberta):
Valerius Asiaticus and Corbulo
Jo-Ann Shelton (University of California, Santa Barbara):
Pompey's Elephants: The Reports of Spectator Compassion in 55 B.C.
2:00 p.m. Session IVb: Ancient Philosophy (Salon C)
Chair - Bob Todd
Tanya DiTommaso (University of Guelph):
The Question of Evil in Plotinus
Steven Robinson (University of Guelph):
"...and for that I do censure you": On the Simonides Section of Plato's
Protagoras.
3:00 p.m. Break
SATURDAY, MARCH 16 (continued)
3:30 p.m. Session V: Greek History (Salon A/B)
Chair - Iain McDougall
Robert Buck (University of Alberta):
Thrasybulus, the Forgotten Hero
Mark Golden (University of Winnipeg):
Equestrian and Political Competition in Democratic Athens
David Mirhady (University of Alberta):
The Ritual Background of Athenian Ostracism
Frances Skoczylas Pownall (University of Alberta):
Why Does Ephorus Report a Twinned Comet?
Galen Rowe (University of Idaho):
Demosthenes and Plato
7:00 p.m. Banquet (La Verendrye)
CACW would like to thank the President and the Dean of the University of
Winnipeg for their generous support.
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From: IN%"jedmond@YorkU.CA" "Jonathan Edmondson" 8-MAR-1996
ONTARIO CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION -- SPRING MEETING: SATURDAY 27 APRIL 1996
YORK UNIVERSITY, FOUNDERS COLLEGE, SENIOR COMMON ROOM (305 FOUNDERS)
MORNING: NEW APPROACHES TO FLAVIAN ROME
9:30 Coffee and Registration
10:00 Professor S. Georgia Nugent (Princeton University): "Flavian Epic:
the return of the undead?"
11:15 Professor Jonathan Edmondson (York University): "Flavian Spectacle:
Inaugurating the Colosseum, A.D. 80" (illustrated)
12:15 Presentation, Harry C. Maynard Scholarships
12:30 Hot lunch with wine
AFTERNOON: WORKSHOP: COMPUTERS & TEACHING CLASSICAL STUDIES
1:30 - 3:00
Co-ordinators: Professor Ariel Loftus (York University)
Stephen Low (Humberside Collegiate)
Margaret-Ann Gillis (Barrie Central Collegiate)
Participants will divide into two groups for concurrent workshops:
1. "Computers and Classical Studies: the Internet and Computer Assisted
Language Teaching" (A. Loftus and S. Low)
2. "Teaching Latin in the Elementary Schools" (M.-A. Gillis and students)
3:15 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
REGISTRATION FEE: $26 ($15 for students), which includes coffee, juice,
muffins and hot lunch with wine. -- Participants are asked to register
before TUESDAY 23 APRIL. -- To register, please send a cheque or money
order made payable to Programme in Classical Studies to SUE PARSRAM,
Secretary, Programme in Classical Studies, Vanier College, York University,
4700 Keele St., North York, Ont. M3J 1P3. -- For information about
registration, please contact Sue Parsram (tel: 416-736-5910; fax:
416-736-5460; e-mail: sueman@yorku.ca).
The meeting is generously sponsored by Founders College (as part of the
college's 30th anniversary celebrations), the Faculty of Arts and the Office
of the Vice-President (Academic).
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From: IN%"jedmond@YorkU.CA" "Jonathan Edmondson" 8-MAR-1996
YORK UNIVERSITY, PROGRAMME IN CLASSICAL STUDIES
SYMPOSIUM IN HONOUR OF PROFESSOR A.G. McKAY: "ROMAN NARRATIVES"
Friday 3 May 1996, Founders College, Senior Common Room (Founders 305)
9:30 Coffee and Registration
10:00 Alison Keith (Classics, University of Toronto): "Narrating the
tragedy of Thebes: dramatic allusion and Dionysian imagery in Ovid's
"Thebaid" (Metamorphoses 3-4)"
11:00 Michael Herren (Atkinson Humanities, York University): "Ironic
narrative in Vergil's account of Dido"
11:20 Viola Stephens (Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York
University): "Portraying middle-aged women in Augustan poetry"
11:40 Matthew Clark (Humanities, York University): "Cynthia's eyes: the
gaze in Propertius"
12:00 Discussion
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Guy Metraux (Visual Arts, York University): "The visual rhetoric
of Roman villas"
1:50 Paul Swarney (History/Humanities, York University): "Creating the
portrait of a Roman aristocrat: Cn. Agricola and C. Plinius Secundus"
2:10 Jonathan Edmondson (History/Humanities, York University):
"Re-membering Caligula: past and present in Cassius Dio's Roman History"
2:30 Discussion
3:15 John Bodel (Classics, Rutgers University): "'Once a slave ....':
realism, caricature and narrative balance in Petronius, Cena Trimalchionis"
4:00 Hugh Parry (Humanities, York University): "Blind Fortune, Seeing
Fortune and reading narrative in Apuleius, Golden Ass"
4:20 Concluding Discussion
REGISTRATION FEE: $12 (students $6) (includes coffee, muffins, and buffet
lunch). TO REGISTER: 1. Send a cheque (made payable to Programme in
Classical Studies, York University) BEFORE 26 APRIL to Sue Parsram,
Secretary, Programme in Classical Studies, Vanier College, York University,
4700 Keele St., North York, Ont. M3J 1P3. -- 2. For further information
contact Sue Parsram at 416-736-5910 (tel.), 416-736-5460 (fax) or
sueman@yorku.ca (e-mail).
The symposium is sponsored by the following:
Programme in Classical Studies; Division of Humanities; Founders College
(part of its 30th anniversary celebrations); Faculty of Arts; Office of the
Vice-President (Academic)
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From: IN%"pontes@macpost.scar3.utoronto.ca" 8-MAR-1996
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, SCARBOROUGH COLLEGE
Wednesday, March 20, 1996, 2-4 p.m.
Christine Panas, M.A., Universidad de Granada/University of Cincinnati:
'The Romanization of Spain'
R 3232, Scarborough College, University of Toronto, 1265 Military Trail,
Scarborough ON
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From: IN%"hmason@epas.utoronto.ca" "Hugh Mason" 8-MAR-1996
26 March Professor Jasper Griffin, Balliol College Oxford
- Classical Athens: Tragedy, Democracy and Taxes
UC 140 4:30
29 March Professor Jasper Griffin (Seminar)
Cult and Personality in Horace
3:10, UC 256
19 April Professor Michael Roberts, Wesleyan University
Venantius Fortunatus
3:10, UC 256
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From: IN%"rparker@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA" "Richard Parker" 8-MAR-1996
CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA, ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 1996, at
Brock University (Banquet)
The venue for this years CAC banquet is the Queenston Heights Restaurant,
which is situated on parkland atop the Niagara Escarpment (a UNESCO "World
Biosphere Reserve") on the site of the Battle of Queenston Heights (13
October, 1812). Immediately adjacent to the restaurant is the 50 m./190 ft.
tall monument commemorating General Sir Issac Brock, the British General
who was killed there while leading the victorious charge. Brock is the
eponymous hero of the host University. The restaurant looks down upon the
historic village of Queenston, home of Laura Secord, another hero(ine) of
the War of 1812; it also offers a splendid panorama of the Niagara River,
Lake Ontario and --on a clear day-- the skyline of Toronto's waterfront.
There is a five-stage self-guided tour of the battlefield that can be
easily traversed in the half-hour before dinner is served. Diners will be
transported from the University by bus (included in the banquet price).
Hope to see you there!
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From: IN%"hutton@acs.ucalgary.ca" "William E. Hutton" 5-MAR-1996
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY
INTENSIVE LATIN IN CLASS OR BY INTERNET
(Latin 201/203)
The Department of Greek, Latin and Ancient History and the Faculty of
Continuing Education at the University of Calgary will be offering a
six-week intensive course in elementary Latin during the University's
Spring Session (May 13 - June 28, 1996). The course is designed to
introduce students as rapidly as possible to the reading of actual Latin
texts. It will be of most interest to those who need a reading knowledge
of Latin for their research and those who want a quick way to gain the
background necessary for study of Latin at a higher level. At the end of
the course students will have covered all the essential features of Latin
grammar and will have acquired significantly more experience in actually
reading Latin than is normal for a regular sequence of first-year
courses.
This course will be available both in a traditional classroom setting at
the University of Calgary campus and over the internet for those who are
unable to come to Calgary.
The internet version of the course will be conducted roughly like a
correspondence course, with the added benefit of things that the internet
is uniquely capable of supplying: rapid communication with the instructor
and a rigid schedule of assignments and exams which will help keep the
student's nose to the grindstone.
Students will receive credit for Latin 201 and 203 (first- and
second-semester Latin) at the University of Calgary. Transfer credit can
be arranged with the approval of the student's home institution. Total
tuition and compulsory fees will amount to 622.55 Canadian dollars
(approximately $460 US, at current exchange rates). Non-Canadian students
are currently required to pay an additional differential fee of $580,
although we are currently negotiating with administration to see if that
fee can be waived in the case of students who take the course by internet.
Completed applications from out-of-town students must be received, together
with payment of fees, by Wednesday, April 24. Registra- tion and payment
deadline for all other students is May 14.
For additional information and/or application forms, contact Dr W.E. Hutton
by any of the following media. Updated news about the course will be
posted on the World Wide Web (see below for URL), and provided by e-mail to
those who register an interest.
e-mail: hutton@acs.ucalgary.ca; phone: 403-220-5070; post: Department of
Greek, Latin and Ancient History, University of Calgary, 2500 University
Drive NW, Calgary, AB T2N-1N4, Canada; fax: 403-284-0848; www:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~hutton
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From: IN%"drupp@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA" "David W. Rupp" 16-FEB-1996
1996 ANTICHITA ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH TEAMS RESEARCH ASSISTANT PROGRAMS
at Petras (Siteia, Crete, Greece)
BACKGROUND
The Antichita Archaeological Research Teams Research Assistant Program
(AART RAP) was initiated in 1990 to teach undergraduate and graduate
students, teachers and interested laypeople the basic techniques and
procedures of archaeological excavation and recording. The basic three
week non-credit program is designed for individuals with little or no
previous archaeological field experience and/or formal education in
archaeology. For individuals with formal field school experience and/or
limited field experience there is also an advanced program or field seminar
. Over the past six years 70 research assistants have been trained at
sites in both Cyprus and Greece. The RAs have ranged in age from 15-65 and
have come from the US, Canada, England, Ireland, Jamaica, Grenada, New
Zealand, Greece and Cyprus.
1996 PROGRAMS: The 1996 AART RA programs will be held in association with
the Greek excavations at the Minoan Neopalaltial site of Petras as they
were in 1995. Petras is located in eastern Crete, just outside the town of
Siteia. Dr. Metaxia Tsipopoulou, (24th Ephorate of the Greek
Archaeological Service) has been conducting systematic excavations here
since 1985 under license from the Greek Ministry of culture.
PROGRAM 1 - BASIC: Saturday, July 6th - Saturday, July 27th. This is the
standard AART RA program for individuals with little or no previous
archaeological field experience. There are 2-8 openings.
PROGRAM 2 - ADVANCED: Tuesday, July 2nd - Saturday, July 27th. This 4 week program is designed for individuals with 3-8 weeks
prior archaeological excavation experience either on a formal field
school or on a project. There are 2-6 openings.
FEES: Program 1: US$700 / CDN$950; Program 2: US$500 / CDN$700
The fees include: instruction/supervision at the site; equipment used at
the site; the off-site excursions as described; room during the program;
background materials; welcome and farewell dinners, 1996 AART RAP t-shirt.
NOT INCLUDED: transatlantic airfare to/from Greece; ferry or airplane
to/from Crete; meals during program; travel in Crete; expenditures of a
personal nature.
APPLICATION FORM AND/OR FURTHER INFORMATION: Requests for further
information and an application form may be
obtained by sending an email to Prof. Rupp (drupp@spartan.ac.brocku.ca), by
writing (Antichita, 109 Village Road, St. Catharines, ON L2T 3C3) or by
calling (905 687 9976).
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*WEST MIDLANDS CLASSICAL SEMINAR*: RELIGION IN THE CLASSICAL WORLD
Department of Classics, Keele University
Wednesday 27th March 1996, from 10.30 AM
SPEAKERS
KEN DOWDEN (Birmingham) "The Varieties of Priesthood among Greeks,
Romans and Barbarians"
PENELOPE GLARE (Keele) "The Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus and the
Imperial Cult"
SIMON SWAIN (Warwick) "Religion in the Second Sophistic"
SUSAN DEACY (Keele) "Gorgons, Amazons and Athena"
Lunch will be available (cost: 5 sterling, payable on the day)
For further details, please contact:
Susan Deacy, Department of Classics, Keele University, Keele, Staffs,
ST5 5BG, U.K.
Tel: 01782 583053, fax: 01782 584256, e-mail cla06@cc.keele.ac.uk
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The University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the University of
Chicago at Illinois will host the first
Chicago Area Conference on Ancient Philosophy, on March 30-31, 1996
Schedule of talks:
Saturday, March 30, 9:00-12:15
University of Illinois at Chicago
Lower Level, Stevenson Hall, 701 S. Morgan Street
Constance Meinwald (University of Illinois at Chicago): Introduction
9:00-10:30: Myles Burnyeat (All Souls, Oxford): "Plato on How not to Speak
of What is not: Euthydemus 283b-288a"
10:45-12:15: Alan Code (Ohio State): "Aristotle's Metaphysics as a Science
of Causes"
Commentator: Ian Mueller (University of Chicago)
3:00-6:15
University of Chicago
122 Social Science Bldg., 1126 East 59th Street
3:00-4:30: Terence Irwin (Cornell): "Plato's Contribution to Meta-Ethics,
from Cudworth to Price"
Commentator: Richard Kraut (Northwestern)
4:45-6:15: Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago): "Kant and Stoic
Cosmopolitanism"
Commentator: Julia Annas (University of Arizona)
Sunday, March 31, 10:00-1:15
Northwestern University
Room 108, Harris Hall, 1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston
10:00-11:30: Jonathan Lear (Yale): "Oedipus and Practical Reason"
Commentator: Elizabeth Asmis (University of Chicago)
11:45-1:15: A.A. Long (Berkeley): "Stoic Philosophers on Persons,
Property-Ownership and Community"
Commentator: Philip Mitsis (New York University)
Information
1. Accommodations at reasonable rates are available at the Wooded Isle
Suites, 5750 Stony Island Avenue, Chicago IL 60637, Phone: 312-288-6305,
Fax 312-288-8972. If you reserve a room by Friday, Feb. 28, and mention
that you will be attending the conference on ancient philosophy, you will
receive a 10% discount. Wooded Isle Suites is within walking distance of
conference events on the U. of C. campus. Rooms are also available at the
Ramada Inn, 4900 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago IL 60615 (a short taxi ride
away from the U. of C. campus). When making your reservation, ask for a
discount for the conference on ancient philosophy. To receive a discount,
make your reservations by calling 800-237-4933.
2. All those attending the conference are also welcome to attend a paper by
Don Fowler, "Horace, Panaetius, and Postmodernism," on Friday, March 30
from 4:00-5:30, at the U. of C. Classics Bldg. 26, 1010 East 59th Street.
3. You are also invited to an informal gathering to get oriented and meet
others who will be attending the conference. The gathering will take place
on Friday March 30 at the home of Ian and Janel Mueller, 5532 S. Harper.
Food and drinks will be served. Drop in any time between 6- 9 p.m.
4. Complimentary coffee and rolls will be served on Saturday morning from
8:30-9:00 before the conference begins on the UIC Campus, on the lower
level of Stevenson Hall (the location of the morning session). Parking is
available at a small cost in the lot at the corner of Harrison and Morgan,
across from University Hall. The campus is a longish walk or a short taxi
ride from the Loop.
5. Offprints of the Greek text of Euthydemus 283b-288a will be
distributed prior to the presentation of Myles Burnyeat's paper.
6. We will have lunch after the morning session at the Parthenon
restaurant, 314 S. Halsted St., between 12:30 and 2:00. This is a short
walk from the UIC campus. Please fill out the enclosed form and mail a
check, if you would like to attend the lunch. At 2:00 we will arrange
transportation to the U. of C. If taxis are needed, the cost will be about
$15.
7. After the Saturday afternoon session, dinner will be available at Robie
House, 5757 S. Woodlawn on the University of Chicago campus. Parking can
easily be found on the Midway Plaisance. Please fill out the enclosed form
and mail a check, if you would like to attend the dinner.
8. Complimentary coffee and rolls will be served on Sunday morning from
9:30-10:00 before the conference resumes at the Northwestern campus, at
108 Harris Hall. Parking can easily be found on Sheridan or Hinman Aves.
If you have any questions about arrangements for the conference, please
contact Richard Kraut. Office phone: (847) 491-3656; e-mail:
rkraut1@nwu.edu
Reservations for lunch and dinner (cost of lunch: $20 [$10 for students];
cost of dinner: $30 [$15 for students]: Make your check payable to either
Elizabeth Asmis or Richard Kraut, write "ancient philosophy lunch" (or "
... dinner" or " ... lunch and dinner") at the bottom and send it to
Richard Kraut, Philosophy Department, Northwestern University, 1818 Hinman
Av., Evanston, IL 60208-1315. We must receive your reservation by March 10.
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Wolfson College, Oxford conference
"Cultivating the Muse: power, desire, and inspiration in the classical
world".
Cultivating the Muse: Power, Desire, and Inspiration in the Classical World.
A one day conference at Wolfson College, Oxford. Saturday 4th May 1996
11.00 First Session 11.00 Don Fowler (Oxford) The occult of the Muses
11.30 Penny Murray (Warwick) Plato's Muses
12.00 Discussion
12.30 Lunch
2.00 Second Session 2.00 Effie Spentzou (Oxford) Stealing Apollos lyre:
eros and the maiden in ancient myth
2.30 Micaela Janan (Duke) The Muse unruly and dead:
Acanthis in Propertius 4.5
3.00 Discussion
3.30 Tea
4.00 Third Session 4.00 Alison Sharrock (Keele) An amusing tale:
Ovids troubles with inspiration in the Metamorphoses
4.30 John Henderson (Cambridge) If you cant find a
partner, find a wooden chair: Copa
5.00 Discussion, leading into general discussion
6.00 Finish
The registration fee is 6 UKpounds, and includes a buffet lunch and
afternoon tea. Cheques, payable to Wolfson College, Oxford, should be sent
to E. Spentzou, Wolfson College, Oxford, OX2 6UD by 26th April 1996: please
include a contact telephone number or email.
For further information please contact: Effie Spentzou, Wolfson College,
Oxford, OX2 6UD fax: 01865 274125 email:
efrossini.spentzou@wolfson.ox.ac.uk.
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On 11-12 May the nineteenth `Groningen Colloquium on the Novel' will be
held at the University of Groningen, Netherlands. it is organized by the
Apuleius Research Group of the Latin Department. There will be an Opening
Evening on Thursday the 10th of May, with two short papers on the reception
of the Alexander Romance (Richard Stoneman, London, and Marianne Elster,
Gerdau, Germany). On friday the 11th there will be sessions on the
Byzantine revival of the Greek Novels, and on the papyrus fragments.
Moreover, Prof. Klaus Alpers (Hamburg) will present a paper on a new
fragment of an ancient novel discovered by him. On saturday the 12th there
will be papers and discussions on the `Cupid and Psyche' tale in Apuleius'
Metamorphoses. There will also be a paper by Robert Carver (Oxford) on Sir
Philip Sidney and the Ancient Novel. This conference is open to staff and
students from all universities and other learned institutions. For detailed
information please contact Dr. Maaike Zimmerman, Department of Greek and
Latin, P.O. Box 716, NL-9700 AS Groningen. Email: ZIMMERMN@let.rug.nl
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V SIMPOSIO ESPANOL SOBRE PLUTARCO (INTERNATIONAL PLUTARCH SOCIETY)
Main topic: Plutarch and History
Zaragoza (Spain), 20-22 Junio 1996
Comite organizador: Presidente: Prof. Carlos Schrader; Secretario: Dr.
Vicente Ramon
Address: Area de Filologia Griega, Dpt. Ciencias de la Antiguedad,
Facultad de Filosofia y Letras, Universidad de Zaragoza, E-50009 Zaragoza
(Spain); fax: 76-761506; e-mail: CSchrader@msf.unizar.es
FIRST INFORMATION
The Spanish Plutarch Society (as Section of the International Plutarch
Society) is holding a biannual Conference with the purpose of up-dating the
present research on Plutarch's work, a trascendental figure in
philological, historical and cultural fields.
Thus, this is to inform you that the V Spanish Symposium on Plutarch
(I.P.S.) will take place in Zaragoza, on 20 st., 21 st. and 22 st. of June
of 1996. As usual, the Symposium will be focused on both central and
complementary issues. In this Conference the main subject is Plutarco y la
Historia. Likewise, the Symposium will have a Section on other subjects
such as Plutarco en el Humanismo y las Literaturas europeas and
Miscellanea.
The Symposium will include three main Lectures:
20th: Plutarch's Lives: the Statesman as Moral Actor in History
(Prof. Ph.A. Stadter. President of the U.S.A. Section of I.P.S.
University of North Carolina).
21th: Plutarco y la comedia ateniense (Profa. R. Aguilar.
Universidad Complutense de Madrid).
22th: Plutarco y la oratoria panegirica del s. IV a.C. (Prof. C.
Schrader. Universidad de Zaragoza).
In addition, the following Professors have accepted our invitation
to participate: A.B. Bosworth (University of Western Australia, Perth); I.
Gallo (Universita di Salerno); C. Garcia Gual (Universidad Complutense de
Madrid); G. Nenci (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa); A.G. Nikolaidis
(University of Crete, Rethymno); J. Opsomer (Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven); L. Van der Stockt (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven). Still to
confirm the invitation: E.L. Bowie (Corpus Christi College, Oxford); S.-T.
Teodorsson (University of Goteborg); L. Torraca (Universita di
Salerno).
Everybody interested in make a contribution related to any of the subjects
of the Symposium (whose allowed reading-time will be 20 minutes) should
send an abstract (no less than 15 lines), before the 31st. March 1996, to
the address inclosed above (and to the name of President or Secretary of
the Symposium).
Scientifical Committee will have the capacity to admite the communications.
The submitted communications rejected will be notified to the authors.
Those people interested in participating in the Symposium should
send the registration form and pay the fees either by Bank Transfer or
Check to: V SIMPOSIO ESPANOL SOBRE PLUTARCO, Ibercaja. Agencia Urbana 67.
Ciudad Universitaria. 50009. Zaragoza.(Spain); C.C.C:
2085/0168-51-01-001944-82
The fees are 9,000 pesetas. A fotocopy or confirmation of payment should be
sent to the President or Secretary of the Symposium (Prof. Schrader or Dr.
Ramon). All the participants (with or without communication) will receive
the Proceedings published by the University of Zaragoza. A number of Grants
have been designed to help the post-graduate and ungraduate students
financially. Therefore, those interested in applying for this financial
support should send the required application to the Organizing Committee.
This Committee has requested the formal and academic credit (2 credits)
from I.C.E.
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16th INTERN'L CONGRESS: Archaeological conservation and its consequences
25-30 August 1996, Copenhagen
Information from 6 Buckingham St., London WC2N 6BA, tel. 0171 839 5975,
fax 0171 976 1564
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THIRD GRONINGEN WORKSHOP ON HELLENISTIC POETRY
Genre in Hellenistic poetry, 28-30 August 1996
Offers of papers and requests for further informiation should be made to
Professor Dr M.A. Harder, Vakgroep Grieks en Latijn, Postbus 716, NL-9700
AS Groningen, The Netherlands (fax: 050 637 263; e-mail:
harder@let.rug.nl)
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JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY, KRAKOW
Ancient Iran and the Mediterranean world, 3-5 September 1996
Information from Professor Dr Edward Dabrowa, Universytet Jagiellonski,
Instytut Historii, ul. Golebia 13, PL-31-007, Krakow
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LONDON CLASSICAL SOCIETY and UNIVERSITY OF WALES INSTIUTE OF CLASSICS in
association with THE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL STUDIES
The Rivals of Aristophanes, 10-12 September 1996
Brief papers will be given by Geoffrey Arnott (myth burlesque; editorial
principles); Angus Bowie (myth, ritual, religion); Thomas Braun
(Eupolis); Christopher Collard (tragedy in comedy); Stephen Colvin (non-
Athenian Greek); James Davidson (*paignia*?); Sir Kenneth Dover
(Linguistic innovation); Nick Fisher (food and drink); Dwora Gilula;
Edith Hall (gender); Stephen Halliwell (sexual gibes); Eric Handley
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R E M I N D E R
CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA MEMBERSHIP:
The bulletin is meant primarily to represent a service
by the CAC to members of the CAC. If you are not at
present a member, you may wish to consider joining. The
regular annual membership (which includes *Phoenix* and
*Classical Views/Echos du monde classique*) is CAD 50
(sustaining CAD 60, life CAD 500, student or retired
CAD 20); contact:
Professor J. Iain McDougall, Treasurer,
Department of Classics, University of Winnipeg,
515 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg MB R3B 2E9,
e-mail iain.mcdougall@uwinnipeg.ca
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(papyri); Wolfgang Luppe (Kratinos); John Marr (Plutarch's *Perikles*),
Martin Revermann (dramatic technique); Ian Ruffell (fantasy?); Keith
Sidwell (emergence of Middle Comedy); Michael Silk (poetry); Alan
Sommerstein (demagogue-comedy); Oliver Taplin (audience); John Wilkins
(edible choruses); Bernhard Zimmermann (lyric).
Changes may be made in this provisional programme. The conference will
be non-residential. Further information *after 1 April 1996* from David
Harvey, 53 Thornton Hill, Exeter, Devon EX4 4NR.
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From: IN%"amphoras@epas.utoronto.ca" 20-FEB-1996 14:25:32.56
We have [we hope] worked out the bugs at a new WWW site for information
about amphoras. The URL is http://www.epas.utoronto.ca/amphoras/project.html.
Here's the initial page...
THE AMPHORAS PROJECT
Information on plain, unglazed, ceramic storage containers, with two
handles, mostly pointed at the bottom, used to carry wine, oil, fish,
and other commodities around the ancient Mediterranean. AMPHORAS is
making available part of the archive collected by Virginia R. Grace at
the excavations of the Agora at Athens, as well as some additional
materials. Included are:
* a bibliography of scholarly work on finding, identifying, and
hypothesizing about Greek and Roman amphoras and the trade they
carried, with a search index
* passages in ancient Greek literature on the use of amphoras
(quoted in English)
* translations into English of works (or parts of works) published
in Russian on amphoras
* links to other Web sites with amphora information and/or images
(excavations on land and underwater, etc) and other sources of
bibliography
* [eventually] a searchable database of descriptions and stamp
readings of Greek (and some Roman) amphoras.
Carolyn Koehler: koehler@umbc2.umbc.edu
Philippa Matheson: amphoras@epas.utoronto.ca
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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 16:24:54 +0000 (GMT)
From: Andrew Erskine
This is to let everyone know that Classics Ireland volume 3 (1996) is now
available. If anyone is interested in obtaining a copy, contact the editor
Theresa Urbainczyk (urbain@macollamh.ucd.ie). We do encourage libraries to
order copies because it helps our finances, but as with last year's edition
an electronic version will be put out as soon as I can sort it out.
Earlier volumes can be seen at
http://www.ucd.ie/~classics/ClassicsIreland.html
Contents of Classics Ireland volume 3 1996
"Sir George Cockburn: an Irish traveller and collecter" by Raymond Astbury
"The Bones of St Peter?" by John Curran
"Brothels, Baths and Babes: prostitution in the Byzantine Holy Land" by
Claudine Dauphin
"Laser-Quests: unnoticed allusions to contraception in a poet and a
princeps" by Nick Fisher
"A modest proposal for education in Ireland" by D.R. Howlett
"Slavery in the Roman Empire: numbers and origins" by John Madden
"Seamus Heaney's Cure at Troy: Politics and Poetry" by Marianne McDonald
"George Thomson" by Sean O Luing
"Orpheus Reborn: Gottfried Benn's Orpheus' Death" by Hugh Ridley
"The Politics of Aeschylus' Eumenides" by Keith Sidwell
Book Reviews
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From: IN%"101607.1755@compuserve.com" "Charles Marie [Ternes]" 9-MAR-1996
Revival of the 'Societe belgo-luxembourgeoise d'histoire des religions. Section
de l'I.A.H.R.
On 6th March 1996, the belgo-luxembourgish association for the history of
religion has taken a new start in Liege (B). Officers of the board are:
Julien Ries (pres.), Lambros Couloubaritsis and Charles M.Ternes
(vice-pres.), Andre Motte (secretary) and Vinciane Pirenne Delforge
(treas.). Professors Derchain, Tihon, Marchetti and Massaux are members of
the board. The opening ceremony was enhanced by a key-note given by Michel
Meslin, president of the Sorbonne, on the item: 'How can we understand a
religious fact?' The association plans to issue a bulletin giving
information on events in its working-field and bibliography of recent
publications (with a short commentary) and to hold a symposium in 1997 in
Namur (Facultes Notre-Dame). The annual subscription fee is 10 US dollars.
Contacts via SEMANT (Prof.Ternes) on CompuServe 101607,1755.
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DIRECTORIES OF ANCIENT HISTORIANS IN THE USA AND IN GERMANY
-- Talbert's and Wallace's *Directory of Ancient Historians in the US*,
1992 (and out of print), is now available on-line, with up-dates being
added as they come in:
URL: http://www.trentu.ca/classics/aahdir.html
-- A directory of departments of ancient history in the Federal Republic of
Germany, compiled by the Kommission fuer Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des
Deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts (January, 1996), is now available
on-line:
URL: http://www.trentu.ca/classics/brddir.html
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E-MAIL ADDRESSES OF CANADIAN UNIVERSITY TEACHERS--NEW, CORRECTED, ETC.:
UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA:
Delete R. Nielsen
BROCK UNIVERSITY:
Delete A. Booth
CARLETON UNIVERSITY:
Carl Widstrand cwidstra@ccs.carleton.ca
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VISIT THE WWW HOME PAGE OF THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA/SOCIETE
CANADIENNE DES ETUDES CLASSIQUES:
http://137.122.12.15/Docs/Societies/ClassAC/Classic.Assoc.html
(Constitution / Back issues of *CCB/BCEA* / Directory on-line / etc.)
Soon to come: 1996 programme
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N E X T I S S U E : 1996 04 15. Deadline: 1996 04 10
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