IConiC

Innovative Contributions in Classics

Division of Classics & Postgraduate Program in Classics

The Division of Classics, in collaboration with the Postgraduate Program in Classics of the University of Ioannina, will host a series of Innovative Contributions in Classics (new approaches, original readings, and innovative fields of study). The conferences will take place every three years, and will focus on different thematic areas. Their main aim is to aggregate specialists from abroad in the Department of Philology and the city of Ioannina. At the same time, young researchers will have the opportunity to participate in the Conferences and their organisation and get necessary feedback and experience. The results will be valuable to the academic community, as new ideas and collaborations/research projects will materialize at an international level, and Ioannina will become a reference point of novelty in Classics. The speakers’ papers will be published by an international publishing house after a review process by the Scientific Committee.

The suggested fields to be explored concern modern, challenging albeit intriguing readings of Classical literature. The main focus will be laid on interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches of the ancient world, as well as intercultural and comparative readings of the texts. Indicatively, some of the fields that will be explored, are: the reader-response criticism in Ancient Greek and Latin literature; poetics; narratology; intertextuality; intratextuality; political and sociological readings of classical texts; Greek and Roman myths and religion; law in Greco-Roman literature; the Greek and Latin literature of Late Antiquity; reception (e.g. translation studies; impact of Antiquity in Byzantine, Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin literature, as well as modern literature, art and fashion); new approaches to papyrology, epigraphy and palaeography; historical linguistics; gender studies; digital humanities, teaching Classics, educational history of Classics, etc.

Due to the pandemic of COVID-19, the first ICoNiC will be held online (via MSTeams). However, the following conferences will take place at the University of Ioannina.

IConiC

Innovative Contributions in Classics

1st ICoNiC: Audience Response in Ancient Greek and Latin Literature:

Concepts, Contexts, Conflicts

Multiple Approaches to Author-Audience Relationship

02-03 September 2022 (on line via MS Teams)

Division Of Classics, University of Ioannina

Language: English

Abstracts (no more than a half a page) should be sent before the 30^d of April 2022 to iconic.uoi@gmail.com

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

- the variety of responses found in a text

- audience positions embedded in the texts

- internal addressees / external audience

- gendered dynamics in audience response

- categorizing audiences (generic differences)

- divergent perspectives on the topic of audience / reader response

- the authors relation to audience

- the authors’ conception of their audience

- the response of the audience to the author’s intentions

- the ways in which the authors played with their readers’ expectations by both alluding to and breaking the generic conventions

- the ways in which “intended” audiences determined the stylistic and compositional choices of the authors.

- author intention and audience response match

- “intended” audience and generic rules

- the emphasis on audience / de-emphasis on author

- demands and pressures placed on the authors by their audiences

- techniques of steering or manipulating the audience

website: https://sites.google.com/uoi.gr/iconic

*Time zone Athens

Friday 2 September, 2022

10.00-10.40: Welcome (1. Dean of the University of Ioannina: Triantafyllos Albanis / 2. Head of the Philology Department: Alexander Alexakis / 3. Director of the Division of Classics and of the Postgraduate Programme in Classics: Helen Gasti).

Chair: Helen Gasti

10.40-11.20: Keynote speaker: Anton Bierl (University of Basel): ‘Shifting audience response and multiple addressees in Sappho between performance and reperformance’.

11.20-11.40: Discussion

11.40-12.10: Coffee break

Chair: Efimia Karakantza

12.10-12.30: Ronald Blankenborg (Radboud University): ‘Odysseus΄ by popular demand: restoring one’s identity through the internal audience’.

12.30-12.50: Christodoulos Zekas (University of Ioannina): ‘The many faces of silence: Odyssean responses to epic song’.

12.50-13.10: Thea Selliaas Thorsen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology): ‘Pig problems: Audience response in the fragments and ancient reception of Corinna of Boeotia’.

13.10-13.40: Discussion

13.40-15.40: Lunch break

Chair: Andrea Rodighiero

15.40-16.00: Andrea Giannotti (Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Storici "Benedetto Croce", Naples): ‘A novel and unexpected Menelaus in Sophocles' Ajax?’.

16.00-16.20: Pascale Brillet-Dubois (Lumière University Lyon 2): ‘Calling for attention. Internal and external audience in Euripides’.

16.20-16.40: Eirini-Niki Briakou (University of Ioannina): ‘Talthybius, the Achaeans’ Herald: An “alter- ego” of the Athenian spectator? A study of Euripides' Hecuba and Trojan Women’.

16.40-17.10: Discussion

17.10-17.40: Coffee break

Chair: Athanasia Zografou

17.40-18.00: Martin M. Bauer-Zetzmann (University of Innsbruck): ‘Mirrors of Herodotus? The Internal and external audiences of the Histories’.

18.00-18.20: Andreas Serafim (Academy of Athens): ‘The language of “silent language”: Nonverbal behaviour, sexual identity, and audience response’.

18.20-18.40: Despina Iosif (Hellenic Open University and College Year in Athens): ‘Per suffragium populi. Provincial voces’.

18.40-19.10: Discussion

End of the 1^st day

Link meeting of Friday 2 September, 2022

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19% 3aimTxYJqDhz_IriAvileC8alO2mdkDmHMcUdxwQMaTSE1%40thread.tacv2/1655930132022? context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2208bea52a-5ad3-4627-9549-5ff3a65676be%22%2c%22Oid%22% 3a%2268122090-97f9-45f5-a978-431b0b04eb42%22%7d

Saturday 3 September, 2022

Chair: Vaios Vaiopoulos

10.00-10.40: Keynote speaker: Stephen Harrison (University of Oxford): ‘Reading Vergil in Horace Odes 4.12’.

10.40-11.00: Discussion

11.00-11.30: Coffee break

Chair: Anton Bierl

11.30-11.50: Andrea Rodighiero (University of Verona): ‘Reading the audience’s mind: the successful excess of Euripides’.

11.50-12.10: Théo Millat-Carus (University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès): ‘Clever Demos/demos in Aristophanes΄ knights? Differences and similarities between the audience and its scenic representation’.

12.10-12.30: Helen Gasti, Sophia Kouteri and Eleutheria Ioannidou (University of Ioannina): ‘Aspects of the poet’s theatrical transaction with the audience in the ancient scholia on the comedies of Aristophanes’.

12.30-13.00: Discussion

13.00-15.00: Lunch break

Chair: Pascale Brillet-Dubois

15.00-15.20: Gabriel Evangelou (University of Cyprus): ‘The pseudo-private nature of Cicero's conciliatory letters’.

15.20-15.40: Panagiotes Kontonasios (University of Ioannina): ‘Cicero’s correspondence: reading, commenting on, reviewing, and criticizing contemporary literature’.

15.40-16.00: Rebecca Frank (Colby College): ‘Reading and Rereading Plutarch: Narrative Instability in the Parallel Lives’.

16.00-16.30: Discussion

16.30-17.00: Coffee break

Chair: Scott McGill

17.00-17.20: Stella Alekou (University of Ioannina): ‘Cetera cura tua est. Writing from the reader’s perspective in Cydippe’s Letter (Ovid, Heroines 21)’.

17.20-17.40: Andreas Gavrielatos (University of Reading): ‘The debauched aristocratic audience in Persius’ Satire 1 and its programmatic function’.

17.40-18.00: Hannah Baldwin (Royal Holloway, University of London): ‘How to win over your audience and ridicule people: Martial and social climbers’.

18.0-18.30: Discussion

Chair: Thea Selliaas Thorsen

18.30-18.50: Vasileios Pappas (University of Ioannina): ‘Perlege hoc…opusculum: Ausonius’ address to his readers in the prose parts of Cento Nuptialis’.

18.50-19.10: Scott McGill (Rice University):’Strange philology: commentaries on Virgilian Centos’.

Closing remarks: Helen Gasti

Link meeting of Saturday 3 September, 2022

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19% 3aimTxYJqDhz_IriAvileC8alO2mdkDmHMcUdxwQMaTSE1%40thread.tacv2/1655930384676? context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2208bea52a-5ad3-4627-9549-5ff3a65676be%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a% 2268122090-97f9-45f5-a978-431b0b04eb42%22%7d

Giancarlo Abbamonte (Università degli Studi di Napoli – Federico II)

Stella Alekou (University of Ioannina)

Chiara Battistella (Università degli Studi di Udine)

Anton Bierl (University of Basel)

Pascale Brillet-Dubois (Université Lumière Lyon 2)

Hélène Casanova-Robin (Sorbonne Université)

Helen Gasti (University of Ioannina)

Jean-Philippe Guez (Université de Poitiers)

Stephen Harrison (University of Oxford)

Stephen Hinds (University of Washington)

Efimia Karakantza (University of Patras)

Robert Kirstein (Universität Tübingen)

Han Lamers (University of Oslo)

Scott McGill (Rice University)

Costas Panayotakis (University of Glasgow)

Vasileios Pappas (University of Ioannina)

Aaron Pelttari (University of Edinburgh)

Thea Thorsen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Vaios Vaiopoulos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)