The Rhetoric of (dis)unity: Community and division in Greco-Roman prose and poetry (23-24 November)
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Presented By
University of Athens
Location
Athens University History Museum, Tholou 5, Plaka, Athens
FINAL PROGRAMME
THURSDAY – 23 NOVEMBER 2017
09:00-09:45 Registration (Coffee/Tea)
09:45-10:00 Welcome speeches
Panel 1 ~ The Rhetorical Triangle: Authors, Speakers and Audiences
Chair: Mary Yossi (Athens)
10:00-10:30 Ioannis Konstantakos (Athens): Divided audiences and how to win them over: The case of Aristophanes’ Acharnians
10:30-11:00 Eleni Volonaki (Kalamata): Rhetorical techniques of identification/hostility between speakers and audience in eisangelia cases
11:00-11:30 Robert Sing (Cambridge): Trust me, I am not an expert: Identifying with a moral ethos
11:30-12:00 Noboru Sato (Kobe University): Thorubos in Athenian speeches, a sign of (dis)unity
12:00-12:30 Cristina Rosillo-Lopez (Seville): Bonding with the audience in trials: the importance of the corona in the Late Roman Republic
12:30-13:30 Lunch
Panel 2 ~ Rhetorical Techniques of Unity and Division
Chair: Dimitrios Karadimas (Athens)
13:30-14:00 Dimos Spatharas (Crete): Emotions, out-groups and the construction of social identities in the Attic orators
14:00-14:30 Andreas Serafim (Cyprus): A War in Words: Mockery, laughter and the rhetorics of (dis)unity in Attic oratory
14:30-15:00 George Paraskeviotis (Cyprus): Humorous unity and disunity between the characters in Vergil’s Eclogues 1, 2 and 3
15:00-15:30 Bé Breij (Radboud University Nijmegen): “It takes more love to kill a son than to vindicate him”: how maxims may contribute to affiliation
15:30-16:00 Stratis Kyriakidis (Thessaloniki): Anadiplōsis and geminatio in Ausonius: Rhetorical theory and poetic praxis
16:00-16:30 Coffee/Tea Break
Panel 3 ~ Constructed Communities
Chair: Christos Fakas (Athens)
16:30-17:00 Maria S. Youni (Komotini): Lycurgus against Leocrates: How to conduct eisangelia after Chaeronea
17:00-17:30 Nick Fisher (Cardiff): Creating a Cultural Community: Aeschines and Demosthenes
17:30-18:00 Roger Brock (Leeds): Citizens and demesmen in Athenian rhetoric
18:00-18:30 Brenda Griffith-Williams (London): Everybody knows: the “common knowledge” topos in Athenian forensic oratory
18:30-19:00 Tzu-I Liao (London): Persuading “us”: Demosthenes’ strategy of using the collective identity in the Assembly
19:00-19:30 Coffee/Tea Break Keynote speech Chair: Katerina Carvounis (Athens)
19:30-20:30 Philip Hardie (Cambridge): Concordia and Discordia in late antique Latin poetry: The rhetoric of community and dissension in church and state
21:00 Dinner (at a local restaurant)
FRIDAY – 24 NOVEMBER 2017
Panel 4 ~ Arguments and Concepts in the Construction of Communities
Chair: Amphilochios Papathomas (Athens)
09:00-09:30 Ilias Arnaoutoglou (Athens): “Corporate” rhetoric and identity-building in Athenian Hellenistic associations
09:30-10:00 Myrto Aloumpi (Oxford): Creating community through the rhetoric of charis: deliberative versus forensic oratory
10:00-10:30 Flaminia Beneventano (Siena): Rhetoric of the humans, rhetoric of the gods. Deigmata, phasmata and the construction ofevidence
10:30-11:00 Michael Paschalis (Crete): The Rhetorical Strategy of Cicero’s On Divination
11:00-11:30 Simone Mollea (Warwick): Humanitas: a double-edged sword in Apuleius the orator?
11:30-12:00 Coffee/Tea Break 3
Panel 5 ~ Rhetorical unity and division in the Roman world
Chair: Sophia Papaioannou (Athens)
12:00-12:30 Paulo Martins (Sao Paulo): The Neoteric Poetry and Old Voices in Early Empire
12:30-13:00 Andreas N. Michalopoulos (Athens): Fighting against an intruder: Τhe speeches of Pentheus (3.531-563) and Niobe (6.170-202) in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
13:00-14:00 Lunch Keynote speech Chair: Rozalia Hadjilambrou (Athens)
14:00-15:00 Michael Edwards (Roehampton): The Rhetoric of (Dis)unity in the Attic Orators
Panel 6 ~ Gender
Chair: Grammatiki Karla (Athens)
15:00-15:30 Stefano Ferrucci (Siena): Vanishing Mothers. The (de) construction of Personal Identity in Attic Forensic Speeches
15:30-16:00 T. Davina McClain (Northwestern State University): Cato vs Valerius/Men vs Women: Rhetorical Strategies in The Oppian Law Debate in Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
16:00-16:30 Coffee/Tea Break
Panel 7 ~ Textual Communities in Literary and Scientific Genres
Chair: Evgenia Makrigianni (Athens)
16:30-17:00 Christos Kremmydas (London): Dio Chrysostom on (dis)unity in the cities of the Greek East under Roman rule
17:00-17:30 Marco Romani Mistretta (Harvard): Finding unity through knowledge: narrative and identity-building in Greek technical prose
17:30-18:00 Maria Kythreotou (Cyprus): Antithesis as a (dis)uniting figure in Thucydidean speeches
18:00-18:30 Vasileios Liotsakis (Heidelberg): How to Satisfy Everyone: Balance between Unity and Division in Arrian’s Anabasis of Alexander
18:30-19:00 Alessandro Vatri (Oxford): Divisive scholarship: affiliation dynamics in ancient Greek literary criticism
19:00-19:15 Conclusions
20:15 Dinner (at a local restaurant)