Session ONE: Friday February 18 2005 1:00-3:00 P.M.

1A: Oracles and Language: the Modes of Knowing


Ross, Charles
Purdue University Comparative Literature
Augury and the Undecidability Topos in Statius's Thebaid [#51]

Kindt, Julia C.
The University of Chicago Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts
Knowledge, Knowing, and Spotting the Blind Spot Knowledge and Reflection in Accounts of Oracle Consultations [#107]

Feldman, Sarah E.
University of Victoria, Philosophy
Oracular modes of knowing in Presocratic philosophy [#67]

Nice, Alex T
Reed College/University of the Witwatersrand Department of Classics
Erudition, Antiquarianism, and Exploitation: Roman Responses to Diviners and Divination in the Second Century B.C. [#122]

1B: History of Scholarship on the Irrational in Antiquity I


Robinson, Annabel
University of Regina
Hungry at the banquet of reason: Jane Harrison and the irrational [#76]

Todd, Robert B
University of British Columbia, Classics
E.R. Dodds and the Irrational [#109]

Bocci, Nicole J
University of Calgary Department of Greek and Roman Studies
Analyzing Alexander the Great [#78]

Cazes, Helene J
University of Victoria Department of French
How Greek poets can teach reason according to Henricus Stephanus II [#75]

Nelson, Max G.
University of Windsor Classical and Modern Languages
Magic and the Rational [#114]

1C: Reason and Medicine


George, Demetra
Kepler College
Wilson, Malcolm
University of Oregon
The de Decubitu: the Contexts of Rationality [#59]


Morand, Anne-France
Institut romand d'Histoire de la medecine et de la sante publique, Faculte de medecine, Universite de Lausanne University of Victoria, Greek and Roman Studies
Ancient medicine: ancient rationality and modern pseudo-rationality [#88]

Mason, Hugh J
University of Toronto Classics
Rational Paradox: The explanation of false death in the Ancient Novel. [#91]

Irwin, M. Eleanor
University of Toronto at Scarborough Humanities
Flower power in medicine and magic [#44]

Harms, Paul J
University of Calgary, Greek and Roman Studies
Aretaeus and Physician-Assisted Suicide [#74]

3:00 - 3:30 PM BREAK

Session TWO: Friday February 18 3:30-5:30 PM

2A: Furor in Latin Literature

Connors, Catherine
University of Washington, Classics
The geography of rage in Apuleius' Metamorphoses. [#102]

Keith, Alison M.
Victoria College, University of Toronto, Classics and Women's Studies
Anger and Theban Civil War in Ovid's Metamorphoses and Statius' Thebaid [#92]

Fitch, John G.
University of Victoria Dept. of Greek & Roman Studies
Passion, Death, and the Nature of (Senecan) Tragedy [#56]

Pollio, David M.
Christopher Newport University Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures,
Interpreting Madness: Plato's Division of the Soul and Vergil's Amata and Turnus [#58]

2B: Mathematics and Technical Literature


Creese, David E.
University of British Columbia, Classical, Near Eastern & Religious Studies
MULES, SEMITONES AND LUKEWARM COFFEE: (IR)RATIONALITY AND MUSICAL PERCEPTION IN GREEK HARMONICS [#113]

Oleson, John P.
University of Victoria Greek and Roman Studies
Well-Pumps for Dummies: Was there a Roman Tradition of Popular, Sub-Literary Engineering Manuals? [#41]

Nikolic, Milo
University of Victoria Greek and Roman Studies
Bridges, Bends, and Bubbling Bellies: A New Look at Vitruvius' Vocabulary [#71]

Williams, Burma P
Independent Scholar
PEBBLES & CALCULATORS: Thoughts on Roman Computing [#81]

Williams, Richard S.
Washington State University,
 Dept of History

Keyser, Paul T
IBM Watson Research Center
(Un)Natural Accounts in Herodotos and Thucydides [#62]

2C: Irrationality in Greek Philosophy

Kukkonen, Taneli
University of Victoria Dept. of Philosophy
The Waking Life of Reason: A Brief History of Rationality according to Aristotle [#86]

Harris, John
University of Alberta
Divine Madness and Human Sanity in Plato's Phaedrus [#57]

Chew, Kristina
Seton Hall University Department of English and Honors Program
Irrationality in Plato: Stupidity and Madness [#80]

Adluri, Vishwa
New York University, Philosophy
Initiation into the Mysteries: Experience of the Irrational in Plato [#84]

Morrissey, Christopher S.
Simon Fraser University Department of Humanities
Aristotle on Conspiracy Theories [#45]

5:30-6:00 Break

6:00 PM PLENARY ADDRESS: Professor Gordon Shrimpton, University of Victoria
 "Oh, Those Rational Athenians!"

 7:00-10:00 PM RECEPTION

Session THREE: Saturday February 19, 2005 8:30-10:30 AM

3A: Orality and Rhetoric


Mirhady, David
Simon Fraser University Humanities
Anger in the Athenian Courts [#54]

Mamoojee, Abdool-hack
Lakehead University, Faculty of Humanities (Emeritus)
INEFFABLE AND UNSPEAKABLE NAMES IN CICERO'S SPEECHES [#119]

Golden, Mark
University of Winnipeg Department of Classics
Rationality, Reckoning and Parental Mourning in Antiquity [#39]

Shoichet, Jillian G.
University of Victoria Greek and Roman Studies Department
Reading between the Lines: Oral-cultural responses to writing and literacy [#111]

3B: Archeology and Religion

Name
Affiliation
Presentation title

Burke, Brendan
University of Victoria Greek and Roman Studies
Hittite Throne-Cult and the Phrygian Highlands [#95]

Dethloff, Craig R.
Independent Scholar
Personification and Metarepresentation. [#40]

Cousland, J.R.C.
University of British Columbia, Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies
"KAI SU?": The mosaic of the Evil Eye from Antioch [#105]

Sherwood, Kathleen D
University of British Columbia Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies
Dedications Ancient and Modern [#116]

Miles, Anthony M
University of Colorado at Boulder Department of Classics
Egeria and Apotheosis: Function and Fornication [#61]

10:30 - 11:00 BREAK

Session FOUR: Saturday February 19, 2005 11:00-1:00 PM

4A: Latin Literature: Madness and Inspiration

Name
Affiliation
Presentation title

Frazer, Brian L. W.
University of California-Berkeley Classics
Roma Recidiva: an agricultural metaphor at Livy 6.1 [#47]

Porter, John R.
University of Saskatchewan, Department of History
A Tomb with a View: Petronius' Widow of Ephesus and the Ancient Satiric Tradition [#66]

Littlewood, Cedric A. J.
University of Victoria, Department of Greek and Roman Studies
Horace and the Political Rhetoric of Seneca's Thyestes [#117]

Quartarone, Lorina
University of St. Thomas Modern and Classical Languages
Furor and Irony in the Aeneid [#104]

4B: Archeology II: Measurement and (Mis)Representation


Lawall, Mark L
University of Manitoba Classics Department
Ignorance is part of the equation: Problems in making sense of ancient commerce. [#48]

Klapecki, Derek V
University of Victoria
Geography and Environment in the Early Development of Stymphalos [#96]

De Angelis, Franco
The University of British Columbia Dept. of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies
One Size Fits All: 8th-century Houses in Greek Sicily [#123]

Papaioannou, Maria
The University of British Columbia
 Dept. of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies

Williams, Hector
University of British Columbia Classical Studies
Gladiators of Lesbos [#118]

Weir, Robert G.A.
University of Windsor Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Fake!?: the Purpose and Use of Counterfeit Coins in the Greek World [#99]

4C: Myth and Propaganda

Al-Maini, Doug
University College of the Cariboo, Philosophy
Truth in Myth and History [#83]

Pownall, Frances
University of Alberta Department of History and Classics
Apollo as Culture-Hero: Rationalizations in Ephorus [#72]

Nicholson, Nigel
Reed College Classics
Psaumis, Camarina, and the Rhetoric of Foundation [#52]

Chew, Kathryn S
California State University, Long Beach Department of Comparative World Literature and Classics
Dogma, the imperialist answer to rationality [#87]

Cooper, Craig R
University of Winnipeg Classics
Myth and History and their place in biography [#77]

1:00-2:30 Lunch

Session FIVE: Saturday February 19, 2005 2:30-4:30 PM

5A: Affective Arts and the Production of Subject

Germany, Robert
University of Chicago Classics Dept.
Mimetic Contagion in Terence's Eunuch [#73]

Purchase, Philip
University of Southern California Classics Department
Theocritus and the Landscape of Persuasion [#70]

Horky, P. Sidney
University of Southern California Department of Classics
The Tragic Imprint: Psychosomatic Affect in the Works of Gorgias, Plato, and Aristotle [#65]

Fox, Matthew W
St. Peter's College, Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures
Tortoises, lyres, thelxis: the transformative magic of musical instruments [#63]

Chrol, E. Del
University of Southern California Classics Department
Ethical Aesthetics: Ovid and the Political Impact of Affect [#64]

5B: Myth


Moss, Brian W
University of Victoria, Greek and Roman Studies
Εἶπε τις, Ἡράκλειτε: Three Homeric Hapaxes in Callimachus 34 (A.P. 7.80) [#125]

Capra, Raymond L.
Fordham University, Classics Dept.
Herakles and the far ends of the earth [#98]

Reid, Heather A.
University of Victoria Interdisciplinary Studies
Sacred Marriage and Female Initiation in Antiquity [#108]

Westra, Haijo J
University of Calgary Greek and Roman Studies
The Logic of Myth: Hesiod's Myth of the Races [#120]

Nikolic, Milo
University of Victoria
 Greek and Roman Studies

5C: Greek Literature: Madness and Reason

Stocking, Charles H
UCLA Classics
Aesthetic Conflict and Dramatic Resolution: Discursive and Presentational Symbolism within Aristophanes' Frogs [#101]

Sou, Derek
University of Victoria
The Interpretation of δεισιδαιμονια in Theophrastus' Characters 16 [#79]

Anagnostou-Laoutides, Evangelia
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
The Madness of the δυσεροι [#124]

Wells, James B.
University of Idaho Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Pierre Bourdieu's "objective limits of objectivism" and the Theme of Return in Pindar's Epinikia [#68]

Marshall, Toph
University of British Columbia Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies
Mamet, Madness, and Masks: insights into Athenian acting. [#55]

4:30-5:30 BREAK

6:00 PM Keynote Address Prof. Richard Janko, University of Michigan
 "Creation and Destruction in the Thought of Empedocles"

7:15 PM BANQUET