COLLOQUIUM ON GREEK AND ROMAN NOVEL

COLLOQUIUM ON GREEK AND ROMAN NOVEL
MAY 26, 2011, Room 201A, 11AM

The Department of Classics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki is pleased to announce the organization of a colloquium on the Ancient Novel to be held on Thursday, May 26 2011, inRoom 201A, at 10.00 am. The topic of this colloquium will be:


Greek and Roman Novel: Narrative Tensions, Plot and Themes


PROGRAM
Genre, Ideology and Motifs, Chair: Prof. AntonioςRengakos
Prof. David Konstan (Brown, Emeritus; New York University): “Erôs and Oikos.”

Prof. Marí lia P. Futre Pinheiro (University of Lisbon): “Satire and Philosophy in Lucian.”
Prof. Silvia Montiglio (Johns Hopkins University): “The Call of Blood: Greek Origins of a Motif, from Euripides to Heliodorus.”
Ass. Prof. Maria Plastira Valkanou (Aristotle University): “Lampon's Episode in Xenophon's Ephesiaca.”
Break
Petronius and Apuleius, Chair: Prof. Katharina Volk
Prof. Gareth Schmeling (University of Florida): “Size Matters: It is the Little Things that Count in Petronius’ Satyrica.”
Prof. Stephen J. Harrison (Corpus Christi, Oxford): “Interpreting the anteludia: Apuleius Met.11.8.”