9:00-9:30 Coffee and continental breakfast at Broad Auditorium, Pepper Center
9:30-9:45 Welcome-Daniel Pullen
9:45-12:00 Session I: Ian Rutherford presiding
9:45-10:35 Prof. Alan L. Boegehold Langford Eminent Scholar FSU
Timing, Timing, Timing
10:35-11:25 Prof. David Konstan Brown University
Location, Location, Location
11: 25-11:40 Questions on Session I
11:40-1:00 Lunch at the Pepper Center
1:00-3:30 Session II: Francis Cairns presiding
1:30-2:25 Prof. Justina Gregory Smith College
Tragedy and the Comic
2:25-3:15 Prof. Rebecca H. Sinos Amherst College
Socrates at Play
3:15-3:30 Questions on Session II
6:00-9:30 Banquet at the Restaurant Chez Pierre
9:00-9:30 Coffee and continental breakfast at Broad Auditorium, Pepper Center
9:30-12:00 Session III: Nancy de Grummond presiding
9:30-10:20 Prof.
Charles R. Beye
The Best of the Argonauts? You've Got To Be Kidding
10:20-11:10 Prof. Jeffrey Rusten Cornell University
What's funny about obscenity? The duel of gestures in the "Eurymedon vase"
11:10-11:25 Questions on Session III
11:25-12:00 Summation: John Marincola
12:00-3:30 Lunch and excursion to Wakulla Springs State Park
6:15-10:00 Dinner at the home of Alan Boegehold
The Speakers
1. Justina Gregory is Professor and Chair of the Department of Classical
Languages and Literatures at Smith College. Her books
include Euripides and
the Instruction of the Athenians (University of Michigan Press, 1991) and a
commentary on Euripides' Hecuba (Scholars Press, 1999). She is currently
editing the Blackwell Companion to Greek Tragedy and working on a study of
education in Greek literature. She has long taken a certain grim interest
in manifestations of humor in Greek tragedy.
2. Rebecca Sinos is Professor of Classics at Amherst College. She has published
on lyric poetry and rituals as they appear in Greek art and literature, including a
book co-authored with John Oakley, The Wedding in Ancient Athens. Current
interests include a study of the goddess Meter in the agora of Athens, and
anything to do with Plato.
3. David Konstan is the John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor of Classics
and Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University. He is the author of
Roman Comedy, Greek Comedy and Ideology, Sexual Symmetry: Love in the
Ancient Novel and Related Genres; Friendship in the Classical World; and Pity
Transformed. He is currently working on a book on The Emotions of the Ancient
Greeks: Studies in Aristotle and Classical Literature. David Konstan is a past
president of the American Philological Association.
4. Charles Beye is Distinguished Professor of Classics Emeritus in the City University of
New York. At present he is a contributing editor for greekworks.com, for which
publication over the last three or four years he has written a number of
critical reviews on various subjects, including most recently the National Theater's
(London) production of Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra, Mary
Lefkowitz' Greek Gods, Human Lives, and, coming up, the Aquila Theater
production of Aeschylus' Agamemnon, starring Olympia Dukakis. He has
just published (January 2004) a fictional biography
of Odysseus, entitled Odysseus: a Life.
5. Jeffrey Rusten is Professor of Classics at Cornell University and Vice President
for Publications at Oxford University Press. His works include a commentary on
Book Two of Thucydides' Peloponnesian War, a text and commentary of Sophocles'
Oidipous Tyrannos, and the Loeb edition of Theophrastus: Characters, Herodas:
Mimes, Cercidas and the Choliambic Poets.