City and Countryside in the Ancient Imagination

The Penn-Leiden Colloquia on Ancient Values, III

June 3–5, 2004

University of Leiden, the Netherlands

Organizers

Ineke Sluiter

Ralph M. Rosen

Thursday, June 3

Graduate student event, 11:30 – 6:10 p.m.

11:30 – 12:00 registration of graduate students and early arrivals

12:00 – 12:10 Welcome, Ralph Rosen (University of Pennsylvania)

12:10 – 12:30 Chiara Robbiano (University of Leiden)

12:30 – 12:50 Carl Shaw (University of Pennsylvania)

12:50 – 1:10 p.m. Christiaan Caspers (University of Leiden, LfgrE Hamburg)

1:10 – 1:30 p.m. Discussion

1:30 – 2:00 p.m. Tea and sandwich break

2:00 – 2:20 p.m. Bryce Walker, University of Pennsylvania

2:20 – 2:40 p.m. Casper de Jonge, University of Leiden

2:40 – 3:00 p.m. Hugo Koning, University of Leiden

3:00 – 3:20 p.m. Discussion

3:20 – 3:40 p.m. Tea break

3:40 – 4:00 p.m. Josiah Davis, University of Pennsylvania

4:00 – 4:20 p.m. Rogier van der Wal, University of Leiden

4:20 – 4:40 p.m. Daniel Harris, University of Pennsylvania

4:40 – 5:00 p.m. Discussion

5:00 – 5:20 p.m. Tea break

5:20 – 5:40 p.m. Florence Limburg

5:40 – 6:00 p.m. Tazuko van Berkel

6:00 – 6:10 p.m. Discussion

6:30 p.m. informal get-together for drinks and joint dinner

The Penn-Leiden Colloquium III

(papers are 30 minutes with 10 minutes of discussion)

Friday, June 4

8:45 – 9:30 a.m. Registration and coffee

9:30 – 9:40 a.m. Welcome and opening: Ralph Rosen, University of Pennsylvania

Keynote address I, 9:40 – 10:20 a.m. 

(Chair: Ralph Rosen, University of Pennsylvania)

Angus Bowie, Oxford University

10:20 – 10:40 a.m. coffee

Session I, 10:40 – 12:00 a.m. 

(Chair: Luuk de Ligt, University of Leiden)

  1. John Bintliff, University of Leiden
  2. Jeremy McInerney, University of Pennsylvania

12:00 – 1:30 p.m. lunch

Session II, 1:30 – 2:50 p.m.

(Chair: Henk Versnel, University of Leiden)

  1. Sheila Murnaghan, University of Pennsylvania
  2. Irene Polinskaya, Bowdoin College

2:50 – 3:10 p.m. tea, coffee

Session III, 3:10 – 4.30 p.m.

(Chair: Henk Versnel, University of Leiden)

  1. David Carter, University College London
  2. Helena Patrikiou, University of the Peloponnese

4:30 – 4:50 p.m. tea, coffee

Session IV, 4:50 – 6:10 p.m.

(Chair: Marlein van Raalte, University of Leiden)

  1. Jennifer Clarke Kosak, Bowdoin College
  2. Helen Cullyer, University of Pittsburgh

6:30 – 7:30 p.m. Reception offered by Brill in University of Leiden Faculty Club

evening free

Saturday, June 5

Keynote address II, 9:10 – 9:50 a.m.

Richard Hunter, Cambridge University

9:50 – 10:10 a.m. coffee

Session V, 10:10 – 11.30 a.m.

(Chair: Klaas Worp, University of Leiden)

  1. Celina Gray, McMaster University 
  2. Carlos Galvao – Sobrinho, University of Wisconsin)

11:30 – 11:50 a.m. coffee

Session VI, 11:50 – 1:10 p.m.

(Chair: Piet Schrijvers, University of Leiden)

  1. Rachel Sternberg, The College of Wooster
  2. Mathilde Skoie, University of Oslo

1:10 – 2:40 p.m. lunch

Session VII, 2:40 – 4:00 p.m.

(Chair: Piet Schrijvers, University of Leiden)

  1. Joan Booth, University of Leiden
  2. Diana Spencer, University of Birmingham

4:00 – 4:20 p.m. tea, coffee

Session VIII, 4:20 – 5:40 p.m.
  1. Elena Merli, Freie Universit&aumlaut;t Berlin
  2. Shane Butler, University of Pennsylvania

5:40 – 6:20 p.m. tea, coffee, wrapping up

Ineke Sluiter, (University of Leiden)

7:30 p.m. Speakers' dinner offered by the Rector Magnificus of University of Leiden

Sunday, June 6

Departure. Program for those wishing to do some sightseeing

Alphabetical list of speakers with titles of papers:

Bintliff, John (University of Leiden), "City-coutryside relationships in the 'Normal polis' and the Phenomenology of Landscape"

Booth, Joan (University of Leiden), "Active and passive: contemplating the country in love elegy and other Roman poetry"

Bowie, Angus (Oxford University), "Herodotus on survival: city or countryside?"

Butler, Shane (University of Pennsylvania), "Vocor in silvas" [countryside in the plays of Seneca]

Carter, David (University College London), "At Home, Round Here, Out There: an exploration of dramatic space in Greek tragedy and comedy"

Clarke Kosak, Jennifer (Bowdoin College), "Andres gar polis: city limits in classical Greek thought"

Cullyer, Helen, "Agroikia and Pleasure in Aristotle"

Galvao-Sobrinho, Carlos (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), "City, Countryside, and Civic Ideology in Dio's Euboicus"

Gray, Celina (McMaster University), "The bearded farmer of Roman Attica" [Philostratus, Lucian, Plutarch]

Hunter, Richard (Cambridge University), Uncut Meadows: Hippolytus and Allegory

McInerney, Jeremy (University of Pennsylvania), "On the Border: the eschatiai and sacred land"

Merli, Elena (Freie Universit&aumlaut; Berlin), "Martial between Rome and Bilbilis"

Murnaghan, Sheila (University of Pennsylvania), "Farming, Authority, and Truth-Telling in the Greek Tradition"

Patrikiou, Helena (University of Peloponnese), "The ambiguities of Delphi: tensions between civic and 'divine' space. The tragic example of Euripides' Ion

Polinskaya, Irene (Bowdoin College), "The lack of boundaries, the absence of oppositions: the city-countryside continuum of a Greek Pantheon"

Skoie. Mathilde (University of Oslo), [title t.b.a.: Vergil's Eclogues]

Spencer, Diana (University of Birmingham), "Horace, in the Garden"

Sternberg, Rachel (The College of Wooster), "Dido's Carthage: A Poetic Topography"