Program - May 28 Colloquium

Resemblance and Reality in Greek Thought

A Colloquium in Honor of Peter M. Smith

May 28, 2016

University of North Carolina

Department of Classics

Murphey 104

9:00

Introduction, Mary Pendergraft

9:15-11:00

Poetry: Verbal Resemblance as Incomplete Reality

Peter Aicher, “Mētis on a Mission: Unreliable Narration and the Perils of Cunning in Odyssey 9”

Jeffrey Beneker, “Little Things Mean a Lot: Odysseus’ Scar and Eurycleia’s Memory”

Arum Park, “Reality, Illusion, or Both? Cloud-Women in Stesichorus and Pindar”

Keyne Cheshire, “Neither Beast Nor Woman: Reconstructing Callisto in Callimachus’ Hymn to Zeus”

D. Felton, “Thigh Wounds in Homer and Vergil: Cultural Reality and Literary Metaphor”

11:00-11:15
Coffee Break, Murphey 118

11:15-12:45

Greek Tragedy: Reality, Expectation, Tradition

David C.A. Wiltshire, “Necessity and Universal Reality: The Use of XPH in Aeschylus”

Sheila Murnaghan, “The Arms of Achilles: Tradition and Mythmaking in Sophocles’ Philoctetes”

Derek Smith Keyser, “The Bad Place: The Horrific House of Euripides’ Heracles”

Edwin Carawan, “The ‘Hymn to Zeus’ (Agamemnon 160-83) and Reasoning from Resemblances”

12:45-2:30
Lunch

2:30-4:00

Greek Prose: Reality and Appearances

Mark C. Mash, “Stereotypes as Faulty Resemblance: Humorous Deception and Ethnography in Herodotus”

David Johnson, “The Rational Religion of Xenophon’s Socrates”

Norman Sandridge, “Wives, Subjects, Sons, and Lovers: Phthonos and Resemblance in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia”

Patrick Lee Miller, “Performing Plato’s Forms”

4:00
Reception, Murphey 118

Accommodations for Resemblance and Reality Colloquium

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Colloquium Announcement

The Department of Classics at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill will host a colloquium called "Resemblance and Reality in Greek Thought" to celebrate the teaching and scholarship of Associate Professor Emeritus Peter M. Smith, and the publication of the volume dedicated to him (https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138955226). The colloquium will be held in Murphey Hall on Saturday, May 28.

A preliminary program follows:

Introduction - Mary Pendergraft
1st Session - Poetry: Verbal Resemblance as Incomplete Reality

"Mētis on a Mission: Unreliable Narration and the Perils of Cunning in Odyssey 9," Peter Aicher

"Little Things Mean a Lot: Odysseus’ Scar and Eurycleia’s Memory," Jeffrey Beneker

"Reality, Illusion, or Both? Cloud-Women in Stesichorus and Pindar," Arum Park

"Neither Beast Nor Woman: Reconstructing Callisto in Callimachus’ Hymn to Zeus," Keyne Cheshire

2nd Session - Greek Tragedy: Reality, Expectation, Tradition

"Necessity and Universal Reality: The Use of XPH in Aeschylus," David C.A. Wiltshire

"The Arms of Achilles: Tradition and Mythmaking in Sophocles’ Philoctetes," Sheila Murnaghan

"The Bad Place: The Horrific House of Euripides’ Heracles," Derek Smith Keyser

"The 'Hymn to Zeus' (Agamemnon 160-83) and Reasoning from Resemblances," Edwin Carawan

3rd Session - Greek Prose: Reality and Appearances

"Stereotypes as Faulty Resemblance: Humorous Deception and Ethnography in Herodotus," Mark C. Mash

"The Rational Religion of Xenophon’s Socrates," David Johnson

"Wives, Subjects, Sons, and Lovers: Phthonos and Resemblance in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia," Norman Sandridge

"Performing Plato’s Forms," Patrick Lee Miller

Final Word - Echoes of Resemblance and Reality in Latin Literature

"Thigh Wounds in Homer and Vergil: Cultural Reality and Literary Metaphor," D. Felton