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