Conference Programme:
Thursday 22nd June 2017
0845-0930: Registration &
Welcome (ELEC-203)
0930-1130: Session I
Panel I: Transformation & Intertextuality
(ELEC-203)
Chair: Maria Haley (University of Leeds)
Nina
Ogrowsky
Humboldt-Universität
zu Berlin
The
marriage between viper and moray eel in Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and
Clitophon - A story of spatial representation and transformation
Benjamin
Pullan
University
of Exeter
'Praemia
sunt pietatis ubi?': The gnat reads Aeneid VI.
Jared
Hodgson
University
of Manchester
'The
Real (House) Wives of the Pharsalia: Episode 1 Cleopatra': An analysis
of the portrayal of Cleopatra in Lucan's Pharsalia through elegiac
allusion.
Marina
Cavichiolo Grochocki
Federal
University of Paraná, Brazil
The
Dirae’s Transformation of Bucolic Poetry
Panel II: Transformation & Power (ELEC-205)
Chair: Elaine Sanderson (University of Liverpool)
Ioannis Mitsios
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Cecrops: The Benefits of Diphyes and Mixanthropic
Nature
Ludovico Pontiggia
University of Cambridge
Metamorphoses into anti-Caesarism: Ovid’s and Pompey’s
Apotheoses
Alexandra Harmer
University College London
Themistocles in Persia: Historiographical
Transformations
Angela Kinney
University of Vienna
Remodeling a Goddess? Fama, Fake News, and Populism in
the Res Gestae of Ammianus Marcellinus
Panel III: Transformation & Transmission
(ELEC-204)
Chair: Natalie Millward (University of Liverpool)
Paula
Tutty
University
of Oslo
Into
Egypt: The Transmission, Translation, and Reception of the Nag Hammadi
Codices
Christelle
Alvarez
University
of Oxford
Carving
Pyramid Texts into Pyramids: Textual Transformation and Adaptation to a New
Context
Gianmarco
Bianchini
University
of Toronto
The
Transformation of Ovid's Text in Carmina Latina Epigraphica
Antonio
Iacoviello
Università
degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
The
Transforming Use of an Oratorical Corpus: The Case of Dinarchus
1130-1200: Tea & Coffee Break
1200-1330: Session II
Panel I: Transformation & Genre (ELEC-205)
Chair: Eleanora Colangelo (Paris Diderot University)
Eleanora
Colangelo
Paris
Diderot University
“Something
which is lasting”, or how hymnodic διήγημα turned into the “hymnillion”
Sabrina
Mancuso
University
of Tubingen
“γενομένου
πράγματος ἀπομνημόνευσις εἰς ὁμοίωσιν τοῦ νῦν ζητουμένου”: transformation of uses and functions of
the mythical paradigm from Homer to Sophocles
Marianna
Nardi
University
of Pisa
Socrates
πολιτειῶν ζωγράφος: the transformation of Kallipolis by
Atlantis' fiction
Panel II: Transformation & Knowledge (ELEC-204)
Chair: Phyllis Brighouse (University of Liverpool)
Marco Blumhofer
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Ancient Open Source-Texts? Transformations of Written
Knowledge in Diogenes Laertius
(and related authors)
Maria Savva
University of Sorbonne, Paris
Διαφθορά : (In)visible Body Transformations in Ancient
Greek Tragedy and Medicine
Andreas Streichhardt
University of Göttingen, Germany
Transforming Pagan Religious Content into General and
Christian Education – Pagan Religious Cults and Concepts in Isidore ́s Etymologies
Panel III: Transformation & Creatures (ELEC-203)
Chair: Professor Bruce Gibson (University of
Liverpool)
Katharine
Mawford
University
of Manchester
Changing
Shapes: Proteus’ Animal Transformations in the Odyssey
Marina
Mortoza
Federal
University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Beast
to Beauty: a Small Commentary on Λάμια ἢ Σύβαρις by
Antonino Liberalis
Julene
Abad Del Vecchio
University
of Manchester
“You
are what you kill”: Feline Transformations in Statius’ Achilleid
1330-1430: Lunch
1430-1600: Session III
Panel I: Transformation, Religion, & the Divine
(ELEC-205)
Chair: Victoria Doherty-Bone (University of Liverpool)
Thais
Rocha
University
of São Paulo, Brazil
Persephone
and Hecate in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter: Redefining Their Timai
Alice
van den Bosch
University
of Copenhagen
Gender
bending Greek gods & Christian Martyrs
Marta
Antola
University
of Pisa
Plato’s shapeshifter: god or γόης?
Panel II: Transformation & Self-Reflexivity
(ELEC-203)
Chair: Laura Chambers (University of Manchester)
Helen
Dalton
University
of Manchester
Transforming
arma uirumque: Syntactical, Morphological and Metrical Dis-membra-ment in
Statius’ Thebaid
Elia
Marucci
University
of Pisa
Metamorphoses
of Weaving From Lyric to Philosophy: A Dialogue Between Plato, the Lyricists,
and Aristophanes
Hannah
Burke-Tomlinson
King’s
College London
Ovid’s
Labyrinthine Ars: The Suppression of Cretan Sexual Furor in the Metamorphoses
Panel III: Transformation & Reception (ELEC-204)
Chair:
Nina Ogrowsky (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Phyllis
Brighouse
University
of Liverpool
The
Transformative Impact on Ancient Literature of Arthur Mee's Conflation of
Science and Religion in the Early 20th Century
Nina
Franklin
University
College London
From
Bitter to Sweet and Back Again: The transformation of mono no aware in Longus' Daphnis
and Chloe and Mishima's Shiosai
1600-1630: Tea & Coffee Break
1630-1730: Keynote Address
(ELEC-203)
Professor Philip Hardie
University of Cambridge
'Metamorphosis in Late Antique Poetry'
1730-1830: Wine Reception
This reception is generously sponsored by Liverpool
University Press and the
J. P. Postgate Fund.
1900: Conference Dinner
The conference dinner will
take place at ‘The Refinery’ on the corner of Hope Street and Sugnall Street.
Friday 23rd June 2017
0830-0900: Registration &
Coffee (ELEC-203)
0900-1100: Session IV
Panel I: Transformation & Character (ELEC-203)
Chair: Elaine Sanderson (University of Liverpool)
Maria
Haley
University
of Leeds
Tereus
and the Tragicomic
Thodoris
Andrianakis
National
and Kapodistrian University of Athens
From
Tragedy to Epigram via Painting: Medea in Ecphrastic Epigrams PlA 135-143
Valasia
Partaliou
University
of Thrace, Greece
Transformation
of Hercules in Senecas’ Hercules Furens: a conflict of his soul
Manolis
Tsakiris
University
of Edinburgh
Triphiodorus'
Cassandra: The Transformation of a Literary Character
Panel II: Transformation & Drama (ELEC-204)
Chair: Dr. Fiona Hobden (University of Liverpool)
Vanessa Zetzmann
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany
The Transformation of Rhetorical Strategies in Greek
Tragedy
Victoria Doherty-Bone
University of Liverpool
Mortal-Divine Antagonism in Tragedy, and its Relation
to the anagnorisis in Sophocles’ Ajax
Antonia Schrader
University of Cambridge
Transforming the Tradition of Recognition on the
Fifth-Century Athenian Stage
Vasileios Boutsis
University College London
Transforming Texts, Transforming Cities: Troification
and the Unity of the Andromache
1100-1130: Tea & Coffee Break
1130-1330: Session V
Panel I: Transformation & Gender (ELEC-204)
Chair: Hannah Burke-Tomlinson (King’s College London)
Marina
Galetaki
University
of Bristol
Transforming
gender or transcending it? Callisto’s many transformations in Apollodorus’ Bibliotheca
3.8.2
Christie
Hall-Carr
University
of Exeter
Transcending
and Transforming Sex: The Powers of the Sumerian goddess Inanna/Ishtar
Alice
Meacher
University
of Exeter
Transforming
Gender in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Rosie
Jackson
University
of Manchester
A
mother, a man, and a martyr: Gendered transformation in the Passio Perpetuae
Panel II: Transformation & Plato (ELEC-205)
Chair: Giulia Corsino (University of Pisa)
Ni
Yu
University
of Edinburgh
Theory
of Social Transformations across Platonic dialogues
Caitlin
Prouatt
University
of Reading
In
Dialogue with Tradition: Plutarch's Use and Adaptation of a Literary Genre
Davide
Massimo
Sapienza
- Università di Roma
Time
Changes Everything: a neglected distich ascribed to Plato (A.P. 9.51)
Lea
Niccolai
University
of Cambridge
Rethinking
the Sovereign after Eusebius’ Life of Constantine: Julian the Emperor on
the divinity of the Laws.
1330-1430: Lunch
AMPAL
attendees may visit the Garstang Museum, located opposite the Sydney Jones
Library.
1430-1600: Session VI
Panel II: Transformation & Exemplarity (ELEC-203)
Chair: Julene Abad Del Vecchio (University of
Manchester)
Giulia Maltagliati
Royal Holloway (University of London)
Perfect exempla: Isocrates’ Transformation of the
Mythological Past
Laura Chambers
University of Manchester
Gendered Usability: Transforming the Study of Roman
Exempla?
Elaine Sanderson
University of Liverpool
Mors nulla querella digna sua est: Anonymity and Demonstratio in Lucan’s Bellum
Civile
Panel II: Transformation & Homer (ELEC-205)
Chair: Katharine Mawford (University of Manchester)
Corneliu
Clop
University
of Bucharest
Divination
as an Instrument of Change in Homer and Greek Tragedy: Anti-Corruption and
Patterns of Resistance to Change
Rafael
Semedo
University of São Paulo, Brazil
Transforming
Fabula into Text: Truth and Lies in Odysseus’ Narrative of his Adventures in
the Odyssey
Konstantina
Toumanidou
University
of Vienna
Intertextuality
behind the transformation of a character: the case of Laodice in the Iliad
1600-1630: Tea & Coffee Break
1630-1800: Session VII
Panel I: Transformation & Translation (ELEC-204)
Chair: Natalie Millward (University of Liverpool)
Jordan Poole
University of Liverpool
On Examinations By Which the Best Translations Are
Recognized
Andria Michael
Royal Holloway, University of London
Translation as Linguistic and Sociopolitical
Transformation: Intralingual Translation of Ancient Greek Drama on the Modern
Greek Stage
Charlotte Sargent
University of Liverpool
The Expression and Social Context of the xnms
Relationship in Middle and New Kingdom Ancient Egyptian Literary Texts
Panel II: Transformation & Women (ELEC-205)
Chair: Dr. Georgia Petridou (University of Liverpool)
Giulia Corsino
University of Pisa
Transforming the role of women in philosophy.
Initiatory aspects of women in Plato
Clelia Petracca
University of Turin
Transforming sexuality: The Athenian Oschophoria
Flavia Amaral
University of São Paulo, Brazil
From a sober dead maiden to a drunk dead wife: An
example of Transformations in Greek Epigram
1800-1830:
Closing Remarks &
Announcement of 2018 Host Institution (ELEC-203)
