Cultural Poetics in Ancient Greece: New Approaches

Session 5, 9:30-10:30 AM: Linguistic and Sensory Approaches
Chair: Sarah Culpepper Stroup, University of Washington
Marissa Henry, “Goblin Market: Nectar, Ambrosia and the Real Cost of Fruit”
Virginia Lewis, “Gendered Differences in the Speech of Brothers and Sisters in
Sophocles”

Coffee Break 10:30-11:00 AM

Session 6,11:00 AM -12:30 PM: Tragedy, Politics, and Materials
Chair: Donald Mastronarde, University of California at Berkeley
Melissa Mueller, “Democracy and Autochthony in Aeschylus’s Suppliants”
Laurialan Reitzammer, “Dionysus, Ivy and the Rhizomatic in Euripides’s Bacchae”
Seth Estrin, “Reading Between a Line: Toward a Poetics of the Greek Trophy”

Lunch Break 12:30-2:30 PM

Session 7, 2:30-3:30 PM: Marriage, Reproduction, and Deceit
Chair: Ellen Oliensis, University of California at Berkeley
Sarah Olsen, “Wrestling with Thetis: Desire, Form and Precarious Victory in Pindar,
Nemean 4”
Kate Gilhuly, “Cassandra’s Deceit: Prophecy and Reproduction in Aeschylus’s
Agamemnon”

Coffee Break 3:30-4:00 PM

Session 8, 4:00-5:00 PM: Genders and Genres
Chair: Kathleen McCarthy, University of California at Berkeley
Athena Kirk, “Herodotus in Plutarch: The Case of Polycrite”
Naomi Weiss, “Space, Gender, and Genre in Lucian’s Dialogues of the Courtesans 10”

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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