RICAN7

ΠΑΝΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΙΟ ΚΡΗΤΗΣ
ΤΜΗΜΑ ΦΙΛΟΛΟΓΙΑΣ
UNIVERSITY OF CRETE
DEPARTMENT OF PHILOLOGY
Rethymnon International Conferences on the Ancient Novel (RICAN)


RICAN 7

Slaves and Masters in the Ancient Novel

May 27-28, 2013

Student Cultural Center 'Xenia'
16 Sofokli Venizelou Street
Rethymnon


P R O G R A M
Monday 27 May, 10:00 a.m.

Welcome speeches

Gareth Schmeling, Chair

John Hilton (KwaZulu-Natal)
‘Transitions in Status in the Ancient Novels: From Slavery to Mastery and Back’

Koen de Temmerman (Gent)
“Enslaved Heroes and their Masters: Rhetorical Control in the Ancient Greek Novel and Beyond”

Ewen Bowie, Chair

William Owens (O.S.U.)
“The Greek Novel Callirhoe: By a Freedman Author for Freedmen Readers?”

Stephen Trzaskoma (New Hampshire)
“The Dynamics of Submission and Slaveryin Xenophon of Ephesus’ Ephesiaca

Ken Dowden (Birmingham)
“Slavery and Despotism in Iamblichos’ Babyloniaka

Monday 27 May, 6:00 p.m.

Ken Dowden, Chair

Alain Billault (Paris-Sorbonne)
“Achilles Tatius, Slaves and Masters”

Ewen Bowie (Oxford)
“Masters, Slaves and Freedom: a Mytilenean Perspective”

Silvia Montiglio (Johns Hopkins)“They Get By Without a Little Help From their Slaves: Chariclea and Theagenes”

John Morgan (Swansea)“Phaedrus and Phaedra: Mistresses and Servant-women in Heliodoros”

Tuesday 28 May, 10:00 a.m.

Paula James (Open University), Chair

John Bodel (Brown)
Liber esto: Free Speech at the Banquet of Trimalchio”

Costas Panayotakis (Glasgow)
“Beauty and the Slave in Petronius”

Maeve O’Brien (NUI Maynooth), Chair

Regine May (Leeds)
“Photis: Comic Slave or Elegiac Mistress?”

Michael Paschalis (Crete)
“Masters and Slaves in [Lucian’s] Onos and Apuleius’ Metamorphoses

Επίσκεψη στο υστερομινωϊκό νεκροταφείο Αρμένων και στην αρχαία Λάππα.
Περιήγηση, ξενάγηση και συζήτηση

Tuesday 28 May, 6:00 p.m.

John Morgan, Chair

Sonia Sabnis (Reed College)
“Allegories of Mastery in the Works of Lucian”

Stelios Panayotakis (Crete)
“The Master’s Wrath: Slavery in Apollonius of Tyre

Jeremy Lefkowitz (Swarthmore College)
“Reading the Aesopic Corpus: Slavery and Freedom in Representations
of Fable-telling in the Life of Aesop

Steven Smith (Hofstra)
“Slavery and Cosmic Order in Theodoros Prodromos
(Rhodanthe and Dosikles 7.355-399)”


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