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SCS Newsletter - December 2019 (CAMP)

CAMPing with “Cato”

On the evening of Friday January 3rd, at SCS’s Annual Meeting, I will be directing the Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance (CAMP)’s staged reading of a play. The offering this year will be “Cato: A Tragedy” by Joseph Addison. If you are not entirely familiar with the play, you are certainly not alone. I would like therefore to introduce the play briefly, and explain why we chose the play and what we see as the value of its production at the SCS meeting.

Why do a staging at the SCS?

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Special Events - 2020 Annual Meeting

Thursday, January 2nd

"White Fragility: Why is it So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism?"

Dr. Robin DiAngelo will run this workshop, based on her 2018 book of the same name. This event will take place from 3:30 - 5:30 p.m.

AIA-SCS Joint Opening Night Reception

This event will take place from 7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Tickets will be available to purchase at the door.

Who is the leader of Penelope's suitors?

By Alexander Loney

A quick survey of scholarship on Penelope’s suitors reveals that some scholars consider Eurymachos to be their leader, while others consider Antinoos to be. In this talk, I will briefly summarize the limited evidence for each view (e.g., Od. 15.16–18; 22.48–59). I think the evidence ambiguous. I will invite discussion on whether and why it is.

The Timaeus and Creation in Cicero's De Natura Deorum

By Michael A.D. Moore

Cicero in discussing Platonic physics in De Natura Deorum, focuses on the idea of creation. In contrast to Plato, who I argue, reasons from a creator to creation, Cicero chooses to argue from creation to creator, and this informs his method in moving from the sensible world to the intelligible world by appeal to analogies of the sensible world.

Another Homerisches Wort: τιθαιβώσσω ‘store up’ (Od. 13.106)

By Alexander Nikolaev

The meaning and etymology of Greek τιθαιβώσσω are unknown. The purpose of this paper is to review the attestations and propose a novel linguistic analysis, starting not with alleged Indo-European cognates, but rather with familiar grammatical rules of Greek. It is argued that the meaning is ‘to stick in, to deposit’ and the cognate is Latin fīgere ‘insert, fix’.