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 '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
"Wives, Subjects, Sons,
and Lovers: Phthonos and Resemblance
in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia," Norman Sandridge
Final Word - Echoes of Resemblance and Reality in Latin
Literature
"Thigh Wounds in Homer
and Vergil: Cultural Reality and Literary Metaphor," D. Felton
