The University of Crete / Department of Philology organizes the 8th Rethymnon International Conference on the Ancient Novel, entitled “Material Culture and the Ancient Novel”.
Friday 14 October, 10:00 a.m.
Welcome speeches
Chair: Ewen Bowie
Michael Paschalis (Crete)
“Funerals, burials and tombs in Chariton’s Callirhoe and elsewhere”
Anna Lefteratou (Heidelberg)
“Chariton’s Callirhoe abed: from Pompeian frescoes to Roman kline sarcophagi?”
Chair: Nicolò D’Alconzo
Ian Repath (Swansea)
“The later Greek novelists: Art imitating art imitating art imitating art …”
Valentin Decloquement (Lille)
“From writing to painting. Rhetorical and pictorial τόποι in Philostratos’ and Heliodorus’ portrayals of Achilles”
Friday 14 October, 5:30 p.m.
Chair: Stephen Trzaskoma
Daniel Jolowicz (Cambridge)
“Roman monumentalism in Chariton of Aphrodisias”
Giuseppe Zanetto (Milan)
“Visualizing the house: Domestic space in Achilles Tatius”
Chair: John Morgan
Cecilia Nobili (Milan)
“The sanctuary of Delphi in Heliodorus’ Aethiopica between material culture and intertextuality”
Emily M. Rush (Miami University of Ohio)
“Heliodorus’ Lithopoetics: Ekphrastic description and precious stones in Aethiopika”
Saturday 15 October, 09:00 a.m.
Chair: Dimos Spatharas
Magdaleine Clo (Grenoble)
“Do clothes make the man? To dress and to undress in Petronius”
Regine May (Leeds)
“The staging of Lucius: Isis priests and the importance of props”
Chair: Athina Kavoulaki
Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis (Oxford)
“Embodied engagements with real, literary and visual votives”
Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser (Göttingen)
“How to handle a goddess: worshipped and violated cult images in Apuleius’ Meta¬mor-phoses”
Saturday 15 October, 6:00 p.m.
Chair: Stelios Panayotakis
Leonardo Costantini (Leeds)
“The real tools of magic: Pamphile’s macabre paraphernalia in Apuleius’ Met. 3.17.4-5”
Christa Gray (Reading)
“Out of this world: paradoxes of holy behaviour in Jerome’s Life of Hilarion”
Chair: Karen Ni-Mheallaigh
Helena Schmedt (Frankfurt)
“It’s all about beans: Material objects in Antonius Diogenes’ passages On Pythagoras”
Ken Dowden (Birmingham)
“Tableware. Feasting and its accoutrements in the novel”