Langford Seminar 2006

Langford Seminar 2006

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The Department of Classics, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida

Greek Self-Fashioning: Alcibiades to Menander

Friday - Saturday February 24-25, 2006

Conference Organizer: Alan Shapiro

Langford Eminent Scholar, FSU and Vickers Professor of Archaeology, The Johns Hopkins University

Friday, February 24 Broad Auditorium in the Pepper Center

4:00 Welcome Daniel J. Pullen, Chair, Dept. of Classics, FSU

Why "Self-Fashioning"?

Alan Shapiro

Constructing the Poet in Old Comedy: Aristophanes, Euripides and Agathon

Helene P. Foley, Barnard College, Columbia University

Zeuxis, Parrhasios, and the (Self -?) Portrait of the Artist

Robert F. Sutton, Jr., Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis

Discussion

6:30-8:30 Reception Werkmeister Reading Room, Dodd Hall

Saturday, February 25 Dodd Hall Auditorium

9:30 Coffee Foyer, Dodd Hall Auditorium

10:00 Session Chair John Marincola, FSU

Alcibiades' Lisp: Plutarch, the Comic Poets, and Self-Fashioning

Robert D. Lamberton, Washington University, St. Louis

Socratic Idiosyncrasy and Cynic Exhibitionism

Anthony A. Long, University of California at Berkeley

Discussion

12:00-1:30 Lunch Werkmeister Reading Room, Dodd Hall

1:30 Session Chair Susan I. Rotroff, Washington University, St. Louis

To be (like) Alexander. The Image of Alexander the Great and its Influence

Ralf von den Hoff, University of Freiburg im Breisgau

Menander, Our Contemporary

Olga Palagia, University of Athens

Discussion

3:30-4:00 Coffee Break Foyer, Dodd Hall Auditorium

4:00 Session Chair Nancy T. de Grummond, FSU

Styling Yourself Roman

Natalie B. Kampen, Barnard College, Columbia University

Styling the Self: Connoisseurship and Bildung

Richard T. Neer, The University of Chicago

Discussion

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