PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

2010 STAGE Postgraduate Conference
University of Edinburgh 13th of February 2010.
Programme

9-10 AM Registration and Coffee
10AM – 12:30PM Panel 1 Faculty Room North
Miles Lester-Pearson (St. Andrew’s University) Dionysius I of Syracuse: Oriental or Occidental?

Niels Rasmussen (University of Edinburgh) Dressed in Otherness: Greek Representations of Foreign Dress in the Classical Period.

Anthony Ellis (University of Edinburgh) Title: TBC

Heather Rae (Glasgow University) Gendered Monstrosity: Vampires and Werewolves in Classical Mythology as the fundamental expression of the functions and characteristics of female and male monsters.

Mirko Canevaro (Durham University) The Decree Awarding Citizenship to the Plataeans ([Dem.] 59.104): reliable source or later forgery?

10AM – 12.30PM Panel 2 Faculty Room South
Jarryd Hoy (University of Lampeter) Greek Martial Arts and the Professional Hoplite.

Adam Anders (Cardiff University) Coming Out: The role of antesignani, expedites, and extraordinarii in Roman wafare.

Gabriel Evangelou (University of Edinburgh) Title: TBC

David Lewis (Durham University) Ethnic Slave Names: Their Value as Evidence.

Peter Morton (University of Edinburgh) Diodorus’ and his Sources for the First Slave War: Merely a ‘Slavish Copyist’?

12:30PM-1:30PM Lunch
1:30PM – 3:30PM Panel 3 Faculty Room North
Lilah-Grace Fraser (Durham University) Women and Memory the Kosovo Cycle and the Iliad.

Helen Slaney (Oxford University) Feeling the Brand of Senecan Tragedy in Gager’s Meleager.

Clare Coombe (University of Reading) Heroes and Villains: mythological characterizations in the poetry of Claudian.

Edmund Stewart (University of Nottingham) Re-performance of tragedy during the fifth and fourth centuries BC.

1:30PM – 3:30PM Panel 4 Faculty Room South
Rod Freemaan (St. Andrews University) Myth and Fides in the Monobiblos of Propertius.

Jane Orton (University of Edinburgh) Meno and the Psychology of Mathematics.
Chiu Yi-Chieh (St. Andrews University) Manilian Themes in Seneca’s Thyestes.

David Brits (University of Lampeter) Landscape and Divinity in Ovid's Metamorphoses Book VIII.

3.30-4PM Coffee
4PM- 5:30PM Panel 5 Faculty Room North
Margherita Maria Di Nino (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Institut für Klassische Philologie) Romancing Galatea. Intertextuality and Eulogistic Strategies in the Epitaph for Bion.

Marloes Deene (Ghent University) Struggling for recognition? The social identity of new-made citizens in classical Athens.

Ben Lazarus (Oxford University) Why Good Things Happen to Bad People as Explained by Aristophanes' 'Wealth'.

5:30 – 6PM Coffee
6PM - 7PM Keynote Speaker Address
Professor Douglas Cairns (University of Edinburgh) Honour and Shame: Modern Perspectives and Ancient Values.
7PM Wine Reception
8PM Dinner at a local restaurant (£20 Set Menu)

Many thanks are due to the Classical Association for their support of the STAGE Conference 2010.