Cultural Poetics in Ancient Greece: New Approaches

Session 1, 9:30-10:30 AM: Textual Interactions
Chair: Mark Griffith, University of California at Berkeley
Boris Maslov, “Toying with Texts in Archaic Greece”
Tamara Chin, “The Stark Impossibility of Greece-China Contact”

Coffee Break 10:30-11:00 AM

Sesion 2, 11:00 AM -12:30 PM: Ethics and Value, Homer and Aesop
Chair: James Ker, University of Pennsylvania
Andrew Wein, “Aesop and the Vice of Confusion”
Deborah Kamen, “Status and the Evolution of Aesop’s Voice”
Victoria Wohl, “Of Pigs and the Proper”

Lunch Break 12:30-2:30 PM

Session 3, 2:30-3:30 PM: Poetic Dialogues
Chair: Nigel Nicholson, Reed College
Chris Waldo, “Partners in Praise: Re-Reading the Relationship between Pindar and
Bacchylides”
Dylan Kenny, “Choral Poetry without the Poet: Simonides’s Teaching in Xenophon’s
Hieron”

Coffee Break 3:30-4:00 PM

Session 4, 4:00-5:00 PM: Poems, Composites, and Monsters
Chair: Mario Telò, University of California at Berkeley
Margaret Foster, “‘To the West, Stone and the Song of Silence’: Sphinxes and Riddles in
Pindar’s Nemean 3”
Richard Neer, “Sphinxes and the Taming of Attraction”

A Conference In Honor Of Leslie Kurke, Supported By The Department Of Ancient Greek And Roman Studies, The Department Of Fomparative Literature And The Townsend
Center For The Humanities.

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