Response #2 to Race: Antiquity and its Legacy
By Constanze Guthenke
The presenter, an expert on the history of scholarship and other receptions of the Classical world, will evaluate the contribution of Denise McCoskey’s Race: Antiquity and its Legacy from her scholarly perspective, and comment on the current state of the field and possible future developments.
Response #1 to Race: Antiquity and its Legacy
By Joseph Skinner
The presenter, an archaeologist and expert on Greek ethnography, will evaluate the contribution of Denise McCoskey’s Race: Antiquity and its Legacy from his scholarly perspective, and comment on the current state of the field and possible future developments.
Author Response on Gender: Antiquity and its Legacy
By Brooke Holmes
The author of Gender: Antiquity and its Legacy will respond to the critics' comments and propose further comments on the state of the field and possible future developments.
Response #2 to Gender: Antiquity and its Legacy
By Craig Williams
The presenter, an expert in sexuality and gender in the Roman world, will evaluate the contribution of Brooke Holmes’ Gender: Antiquity and its Legacy from his scholarly perspective, and comment on the current state of the field and possible future developments.
Response #1 to Gender: Antiquity and its Legacy
By Victoria Wohl
The presenter, an expert on gender in Greek literature, will evaluate the contribution of Brooke Holmes’ Gender: Antiquity and its Legacy from her scholarly perspective, and comment on the current state of the field and possible future developments.
Travel to and around Chicago
Getting to Chicago
By Air: With two major international airports, O’Hare and Midway, Chicago offers more than 3,600 flights a day. Extensive details on both airports can be found at www.flychicago.com. O’Hare International Airport (tel. 773-686-2200) is serviced by many major airlines and serves as a hub for United Airlines and American Airlines. It is about 18 miles from the Hyatt Regency Chicago. Midway International Airport (tel. 773-838-0600) is approximately 13 miles from the hotel.
Is Telemachus a "Naturally Gifted Orator?" The Case of Od. 2.40-79
By David F. Driscoll
In his opening speech to the Ithacan assembly at Od. 2.40-79, Telemachus seems to work against his own interests by insulting his prospective helpers. Heraclides of Pontus (F 102 Schütrumpf) was the first to see the problem, noting that though Telemachus should supplicate to gain the Ithacans’ support, he instead rebukes them.
Ethnic Contestation and Nemean 11: Tenedos, the Aiolis, and Athens
By Eric Driscoll
This paper demonstrates that Pindar’s Eleventh Nemean ode participates in ongoing discourses of contested ethnicity in the fifth century Aegean. Specifically, it implicitly urges an anti-Athenian sense of ethnic solidarity between Tenedians, other Aiolians, and Sparta.
Lucretius on the Origin of the World: The Argumentative Structure of De Rerum Natura 5.91-508
By Abigail Buglass
The fifth book of Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura is concerned with arguments for the natural, not supernatural, development of the world; it contributes in large part to the argument against the impact of divine power on Earth, which is found more broadly throughout the DRN. Lines 91-508 of Book 5 posit that the world is part of a natural process, which began with a natural birth (rather than divine creation), and which will eventually lead to death.
Marsyas Causidicus: Law, Libertas and the Statue of Marsyas in Imperial Rome
By Mary Deminion
The earliest known representation of Marsyas at Rome did not depict the flayed victim of Apollo’s divine punishment for hubris, but rather a virile satyr bearing a wineskin on one shoulder, his right arm raised in the air. The statue of Marsyas is well documented in the ancient sources and in the material evidence though the statue itself does not survive. Servius twice mentions that Marsyas, as attendant of Liber, father of free cities, is set up in the Forum with his hand raised to bear witness to the freedom of the city (ad Aen. 3.20 and 4.58). Pliny (N.H.