Program
Thursday 23 May, 2019
15.15 – 15.45
Registration
15.45 – 16.00
Welcome Speeches
Walter Stechel
German Consul General in Thessaloniki
Therese Fuhrer
Organizing Committee
Franco Montanari, Antonios Rengakos
General Editors of Trends in Classics
Opening Speech
16.00 – 17.00
Chair: Irmgard Männlein-Robert
J. Knape (Tübingen), Seven Perspectives of Ambiguity
17.00 – 17.30
Coffee Break
Modern and Pre-Modern Ambiguity
17.30 – 19.00
Chair: John Hamilton
M. Vöhler (Thessaloniki), Introductory Remarks to Modern and Ancient Concepts of Ambiguity
M. Lüthy (Weimar), The Modern Perspective: Ambiguity, Artistic Self Reflection and the Autonomy of Art
M. Chrysanthopoulos (Thessaloniki), Multipliers of Ambiguity: The Use of Quotations in Cavafy’s Poems Concerning Emperor Julian
19.00 – 20.00
Chair: Michael Lüthy
F. Mehltretter (Munich), Ambivalent Allegories: Giambattista Marino’s Adone (1623) between Censorship and Hermeneutic Freedom
S. Reichlin (Munich), The Ambiguity of the Unambiguous. Figures of Death in Late Medieval Literature
20.00 – 22.00
Reception
Friday 24 May, 2019
Greek Concepts of Ambiguity
9.30 – 10.30
Chair: Evina Sistakou
J. Strauss Clay (Virginia), Traversing No-Man’s Land: Outis in the Odyssey
J. Hamilton (Harvard), The Ambiguity of Wisdom: Mẽtis in the Odyssey
10.30 – 11.30
Chair: Panagiotis Thanassas
C. Balla (Crete), Intended Ambiguity in Plato’s Representation of Socrates in the Phaedo
P. Golitsis (Thessaloniki), Aristotle on Ambiguity and Ambiguity in Aristotle
11.30 – 12.00
Coffee Break
12.00 – 13.30
Chair: Antje Wessels
E. Sistakou (Thessaloniki), Postmodernism in Alexandria? Modes of Ambiguity in Hellenistic Poetry
I. Männlein-Robert (Tübingen), Between Conversion and Madness: Sophisticated Ambiguity in Lucian’s Nigrinus
A. Lamari (Thessaloniki), Sympotic Sexuality: The Ambiguity of Seafood in Middle Comedy
13.30 – 15.30
Lunch Break
Roman Concepts of Ambiguity
15.30 – 17.00
Chair: Richard F. Thomas
T. Fuhrer (Munich), Unsettling Effects and Disconcertment − Strategies of Enacting Interpretations in Roman Historiography
S. Harrison (Oxford), Prophecy, Poetry and Politics in Vergil’s Eclogue 4
J. Soldo (Swansea), ‘Vitae aut vocis ambigua’: Seneca the Younger and Ambiguity
16.30 – 17.00
Coffee Break
17.00 – 18.30
Guided Tour of the Byzantine Museum
Saturday 25 May, 2019
9.30 – 11.00
Chair: Therese Fuhrer
L. Cordes (Berlin), … ut Catonem, non me loqui existimem – Ambiguity and Gradual Convergence in First Person Discourse
B. van der Velden (Leiden), The Latin Commentary Tradition on ‘Inclusive’ Intended Ambiguity
M. Formisano (Gent), Legens. Ambiguity, Syllepsis and Allegory in Claudian’s de raptu Proserpinae
11.00 – 11.30
Coffee Break
11.30 – 13.o0
Chair: Theodore D. Papanghelis
R. Kirstein (Tübingen), Ambiguity as Provocation for Literary Studies. The Case of Ovid’s Metamorphoses
S. Alekou (Nicosia), The Ambiguity of simulatio in Ovidian ecphrasis
J. Fabre-Serris (Lille), Double Entendre, Unconscious Desire and Auctorial Intentionality in Some Ovidian Speeches (Met. 3.279-292; 7.810-823; 10.364-366, 440-441)
13.00 – 15.00
Lunch Break
15.00 – 16.30
Chair: Stephen Harrison
R. F. Thomas (Harvard), Catullan Ambiguity
A. Wessels (Leiden), ‘Liber esto’ – Wordplay and Ambiguity in Petronius’ Satyricon
S. Frangoulidis (Thessaloniki), Friend or Foe? Ambiguity in Apuleius’ Tale of Aristomenes (Met. 1.2-20)
16.30 – 17.00
Coffee Break
17.00 – 18.30
Guided Tour of the Archeological Museum
2o.00
Conference Dinner
Sunday 26 May, 2019
9.00 – 13.00
Guided Tour: Thessaloniki through the ages
Organizing Committee
Therese Fuhrer
(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Martin Vöhler
(Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Stavros Frangoulidis
(Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Antonios Rengakos
(Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)