The Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient Literature (AMPAL) Conference
Saturday 10th– Sunday 11th September 2011
Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL)
POWER andMANIPULATION
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
SATURDAY 10TH SEPTEMBER 2011
09.00-10.00 Registration
10.00-11.30 Panel 1
Panel 1, Founders Main Lecture TheatreChair: Christina Pouros
10.00-10.30 / Katerina Mikellidou (UCL)“Psychagōgia in fifth-century Athenian drama:Power-play between the world of the living and the Underworld”
10.30-11.00 / Jessica Baxter-Lloyd (Roehampton)“A Tale of Two Hekabes: Euripides’ Manipulation of Hekabe’s Transformation”
11.00-11.30 / Lucy Van Essen-Fishman (Oxford) “Making Stories count in Philoctetes”
11.30-11.50 Break
11.50-13.20 Panels 2 and 3
Panel 2, Founders Main Lecture TheatreChair: Kenneth Lasoen
11.50-12.20 / Max Eager (Oxford) “The Neronian War in Armenia: an exercise in smoke and mirrors”
12.20-12.50 / Carol Atack (Cambridge) “How to be a good king in Athens: manipulating monarchy in the democratic political imaginary”
12.50-13.20 / Vasileios Liotsakis (Thessaloniki)“Summers and Winters: Thucydides’ chronological system as a literary means of manipulation”
Panel 3, McCrea Room 219
Chair: Simone Finkmann
11.50-12.20 / Jane Burkowski (Oxford)“Violent Hair-pulling and the Power Dynamics of Latin Love Elegy”
12.20-12.50 / Iiro Laukola (Helsinki)“Propagandizing from the Womb: Callimachus' Hymn to Delos and the Oracle of the Potter”
12.50-13.20 / Vasiliki Kousoulini (Athens / Durham)“Archilochus and Lycambes, Alcman’s 5 PMG and Pindar’s fr. 122: Three Examples of Manipulation of Lyric Poems by Ancient Writers and Commentators”
13.20-14.20 Lunch
SATURDAY 10TH SEPTEMBER 2011
14.20-15.50 Panels 4 and 5
Panel 4, Founders Main Lecture TheatreChair: Giulia Brunetta
14.20-14.50 / Andreas Serafim (UCL) “A Theatre of Justice: Ethopoiia in Demosthenes’ On the Crown”
14.50-15.20 / Beatrice Larosa (Calabria) “The power of the word: poetry and rhetoric in the Epistulae ex Ponto of Ovid”
15.20-15.50 / Eleanor Reeve (Oxford) “Cato Maior and the Construction of the Vir Bonus”
Panel 5, McCrea Room 219
Chair: Carol Atack
14.20-14.50 / George Gazis (Durham) “Odyssey 11: the power of vision in the invisible realm”
14.50-15.20 / Simone Finkmann (Oxford) “Divine Disguise in Roman Epic”
15.20-15.50 / Ioannis Lambrou (UCL) “Thersites: From the Aethiopis to the Iliad and Vice Versa”
15.50-16.10 Break
16.10-17.40 Panels 6 and 7
Panel 6, Founders Main Lecture TheatreChair: Dylan James
16.10-16.40 / Gillian Granville Bentley (KCL)“Directing Chaereas in Chariton’s Callirhoe”
16.40-17.10 / Elizabeth Dollins (Exeter) “Leucippe: chasing Achilles Tatius’ disappearing heroine”
17.10-17.40 / Niki Karapanagioti (Reading) “The Manipulation of Gender Roles and the Power of Cross-Dressing in Herodotus’ Histories”
Panel 7, McCrea Room 219
Chair: Max Eager
16.10-16.40 / James Cross (KCL) “The vocabulary of argument in the Hippocratic treatises On Breaths and On the Sacred Disease”
16.40-17.10 / Beatrice da Vela (UCL) “Staging Rhetoric: learning how to manipulate language from the comedy”
17.10-17.40 / Kenneth Lasoen (Ghent) “The Establishment of the Tribunate of the Plebs”
17.45-18.45 Keynote Speaker, Founders Main Lecture Theatre
Prof. Anne Sheppard “Manipulating the emotions of the audience: Plato on the power of poetry and rhetoric”
18.45-19.45 Drinks Reception
20.00 Dinner at The Village Bar and Grill Restaurant, Egham
SUNDAY 11TH SEPTEMBER 2011
9.30-11.00 Panels 8 and 9
Panel 8, Founders Main Lecture TheatreChair: Jarrid Looney
9.30-10.00 / Ifigeneia Giannadaki (UCL) “Time limit (prothesmia) in graphe paranomon and control of political power”
10.00-10.30 / Charlotte Markey (Exeter) “Violence and Vengeance: Greek Tragedy, Shakespeare and the Power of the Female in Tragic Drama”
10.30-11.00 / Edmund Stewart (Nottingham) “Noble in poverty: Athenian people power and the evidence of Euripides’ Electra”
Panel 9, McCrea Room 219
Chair: Katie East
9.30-10.00 / Dylan James (Macquarie, Sydney) “The Shadow of Thebes: Alexander and the Boeotian Man (Arrian Anabasis6.13.5)”
10.00-10.30 / Pietro Liuzzo (Bologna)“FGrHist 104 and Themistocles: power and the manipulation of information in IV century Greek historiography”
10.30-11.00 / Lucy Fletcher (Reading) “The Power and Manipulation of Narrative in Plutarch’s Life of Nikias”
11.00-11.20 Break
11.20-12.50 Panels 10 and 11
Panel 10, Founders Main Lecture TheatreChair: Ellie Reeve
11.20-11.50 / Bobby Xinyue (UCL) “Manipulating ‘god’: Horace’s poetic power and the divinity of Augustus in Odes 1-3”
11.50-12.20 / Liesbeth Claes (Radboud, Nijmegen) “A diachronic analysis of the representation of the imperial successor on the Roman imperial coinage”
12.20-12.50 / Giulia Brunetta (RHUL) “Reflections on the manipulation of language in praise and flattery in the imperial age”
Panel 11, McCrea Room 219
Chair: Lucy Fletcher
11.20-11.50 / Antonello Orlando (Turin) “The ethics of Power: Cicero and Lucretius about the power of blood”
11.50-12.20 / Jessica Dixon (Manchester)“Manipulating Morality: Adultery in Republican Rhetoric”
12.20-12.50 / Kleanthis Mantzouranis (UCL) “From the power of wealth to the requirements of ‘to kalon’: Aristotle’s virtue of megaloprepeia”
SUNDAY 11TH SEPTEMBER 2011
12.50-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Panels 12 and 13
Panel 12, Founders Main Lecture TheatreChair: Edmund Stewart
14.00-14.30 / Chris Webb (UCL)“Towards a new understanding of divided power in the tragic polis”
14.30-15.00 / Sofia Alagkiozidou (RHUL)“Female power in Trachiniae and inHercules Oetaeus: women of fear and women of anger”
15.00-15.30 / Natalia Tsoumpra (Oxford) “What makes a leader? Rhetorical and sexual manipulation in Aristophanes’ Birds”
Panel 13, McCrea Room 219
Chair: Beatrice da Vela
14.00-14.30 / Clare Coombe (Reading) “The return of the giants: politics, power and cosmic upheaval in the poetry of Claudian”
14.30-15.00 / Hazel Johannessen (KCL)‘‘‘Slaves of Demons’: the Language of Tyranny in Eusebius’ Laus Constantini”
15.00-15.30 / Rebecca Usherwood (Nottingham) ‘’’Merited Oblivion’: damnatio memoriae and Christian Justice”
15.30-15.50 Break
15.50-17.20 Panel 14
Panel 14, Founders Main Lecture TheatreChair: Helen Eastman
15.50-16.20 / Margaret Robinson Millar (RHUL)‘‘’All’s Fair in Love and War.’ Power and Desire in Harold Pinterand Ovid: Ruth and Myrrha Get Their Man”
16.20-16.50 / Máire MacNeill (RHUL)“Fitting Odysseus' Wig: The Classical Hero in Restoration Drama and Society”
16.50-17.20 / Jarrid Looney (RHUL) “Foiled Again: The Persistence of Phaedra’s Power-Play in The Graduate”
17.20-17.45 Closing Remarks and Discussion of the next AMPAL Conference