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Rethymnon International Conferences on the Ancient Novel (RICAN)

The Construction of the Real and the Ideal in the Ancient Novel

25-26 May 2009

Σπίτι του Πολιτισμού (House of Culture)
Vernadou Street (Old Town)
Rethymnon

P R O G R A M

Monday 25 May 10:00 a.m.

Welcome speeches

Opening talk

Daniel Selden (University of California, Santa Cruz)

"Political Economy and Romance in Late Period Egypt"

Break

Gareth Schmeling, Chair

Ken Dowden (Birmingham)

"But there is a Difference in the Ends:
Brigands and Teleology in the Ancient Novel"

Gianpiero Rosati (Udine)

"The Loves of the Gods: Literature as Construction of a Space of Pleasure"

Froma Zeitlin (Princeton)

"In and Out of the Frame: Signs of the Uncanny and Illusions
of the Real in the Greek Novel"

Monday 25 May 6:00 p.m.

Marilia Futre-Pinheiro, Chair

Margaret Doody (Notre Dame and Princeton)

"The Reality of Humour in the Ideal Greek Novel"

Françoise Létoublon (Université Stendhal, Grenoble)

"'Ην παρθένος, παρθένε, ούτω καλή ...':

Mythological Paradigm in the Ancient Novels"

Silvia Montiglio (Wisconsin, Madison)

"'His Eyes Stood as though of Horn or Steel': Odysseus' Fortitude and Moral Ideals in the Greek Novels"

Ewen Bowie (Oxford)

"Caging Grasshoppers: Longus' Materials for Plaiting 'Reality'"

Tuesday 26 May 10:00 a.m.

Costas Panayotakis, Chair

Mario Labate (Florence)

Tarde, immo iam sero intellexi:
The Real as a Puzzle in Petronius' Satyrica

Michael Paschalis (Crete)

"Chariton and Petronius:
Reflections on the Ideal and the Real"

Jason König (St Andrews)

"Sympotic Ideals and Grotesque Intrusions
in Achilles Tatius, Apuleius, and Early Christian Hagiography"

Robert Carver (Durham)

"Lucius' Women: Fiction, Reality, and the Ideal
in The Golden Ass of Apuleius"

Tuesday 26 May 6:00 p.m.

Paula James, Chair

John Morgan (Swansea)

"The Border Between Egypt and Ethiopia
in Heliodoros: Realities and Metafictions"

Tim Whitmarsh (Oxford)

"Imaginary Landscapes in The Life of Aesop"

Stephen Harrison (Oxford)

"Ideal Homes: Paradisiacal Palaces
in Apuleius and La Fontaine"

For further information, please contact the conference organizers at:

Michael Paschalis (paschalis@phl.uoc.gr)
Stelios Panayotakis (panayotakis@phl.uoc.gr)Conference email:RICAN@phl.uoc.gr