Past Conferences
The Erotics of Narrative
15th-17th July 2009
Gregynog Conference Centre
A KYKNOS colloquium
Hymns as Narratives and the Narratology of Hymns
9th-10th May 2009
Roderick Bowen Research Centre, University of Wales Lampeter.
A KYKNOS colloquium
FRAGMENTED NARRATIVE: THE NARRATOLOGY OF THE LETTER AND EPISTOLARY LITERATURE IN ANCIENT GREEK
A conference at the University of Wales Lampeter,
Sunday 21 September - Wednesday 24 September 2008
THE ANCIENT NOVEL AND ITS RECEPTION OF EARLIER LITERATURE
A conference at University College Cork,
Wednesday 29 August - Friday 31 August 2007
LIES AND METAFICTION IN ANCIENT NARRATIVE
A conference at Gregynog Hall, mid-Wales,
Saturday 14 July - Monday 16 July 2007
This conference marks the launch of the KYKNOS research centre.
21st-26th July 2008
Lisbon, Portugal
International Conference on the Ancient Novel (ICAN) IV
Included papers by KYKNOS members and associates
9th-12th July 2008
Celtic Conference in Classics, University College of Cork
Panel: Authority and Authenticity in Ancient Narrative:
Pavlos Avlamis (Princeton): 'Redactors and authorship in the Vita Aesopi'
Lynn Fotheringham (Nottingham): 'Authority in Cicero’s Pro Milone'
Fritz-Gregor Herrmann (Swansea): 'Socrates' story-telling'
John Morgan (Swansea): 'Divinity, authority and fiction'
Mirjam Plantinga (Lampeter): 'Authority in Propertius' Elegies'
Ian Repath (Swansea): 'Courting authority in Achilles Tatius'
Federico Santangelo (Lampeter): 'Authoritative forgeries: Roman history re-told in Pseudo-Sallust'
13th May 2008
Classical Association of Canada, Montreal
Panel: Names in Narratives:
Ian Repath (Swansea): 'Allusive names in Apuleius' Metamorphoses'
Owen Hodkinson (Lampeter): 'Typecast? Speaking names in Alciphron'
John Morgan (Swansea): 'Names in the fragments and fringes of Greek fiction'
Mirjam Plantinga (Lampeter): 'Names in the landscape: Callimachus' Hymn to Delos'
Koen De Temmerman (Ghent): 'The rhetoric of name-giving: names and tropes in the Greek novel'
27th – 30th March 2008
Liverpool
Classical Association
2 KYKNOS panels on names in ancient narrative:
Owen Hodkinson (Lampeter): ‘Typecast? Speaking names in Alciphron’
Meriel Jones (Lampeter): ‘Sex and sophistry: Achilles Tatius' Melite as erotic melete’
John Morgan (Swansea): ‘Names in the fragments and fringes of Greek fiction’
Loreto Núñez (Lausanne): ‘Nomen est omen: Menippus in Lucianic frame’
Maria Oikonomou (Swansea): ‘Names revisited: Xenophon of Ephesos' Ephesiaka’
Mirjam Plantinga (Lampeter): ‘Names in the landscape: Callimachus' Hymn to Delos’
Ian Repath (Swansea): ‘Allusive names in Apuleius' Metamorphoses’
Koen De Temmerman (Ghent): ‘To name or not to name: antonomasia and Vossian antonomasia in the Greek novel’
29th-31st August 2007
University College Cork
The Ancient Novel and Its Reception of Earlier Literature
14th-16th July 2007
Gregynog Conference Centre, Newtown, Powys
KYKNOS Launch Colloquium: Lies and Metafiction in Ancient Narrative
21st-22nd May 2007
Rethymnon, Crete
Rethymnon International Conference on the Ancient novel (RICAN) IV
John Morgan: ‘Photius reading Antonius Diogenes…’
12th-15th April 2007
Birmingham
Classical Association
KYKNOS panel:
Gill Bazovsky (Swansea): ‘Daphnis and Chloe and Clement of Alexandria: some speculative thoughts’
Helen Gilmore (Nottingham): ‘Callirhoe’s Homeric influences’
Meriel Jones (Lampeter): ‘Cocks and hens, billies and nannies: paederasty and masculinity in Xenophon of Ephesos and Longus’
Loreto Núñez (Lausanne and Swansea): ‘Stop the rhythm to tell a story: embryonic embedment in Xenophon of Ephesus’
30th August – 2nd September 2006
Lampeter
Celtic Conference in Classics
KYKNOS Panel: Philosophical Presences in the Ancient Novel:
Koen De Temmerman (Ghent): ‘Characterisation and typification: ancient concepts of character and the Greek novel’
Konstantin Doulamis (Cork): ‘Stoicism and the language of Xenophon of Ephesus’
Ken Dowden (Birmingham): ‘Novel ways of being philosophical, or a tale of two dogs, and a phoenix’
Fritz-Gregor Herrmann (Swansea): ‘Longus’ imitation’
Meriel Jones (Swansea): ‘All mouth and no trousers? Andreia and gender in the Greek novels’
Ahuvia Kahane (RHUL): ‘Disjoining meaning and truth: Neoplatonist aesthetics, voice and representation of the other in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses’
John Moles (Newcastle): ‘Pagan philosophy in the Acts of the Apostles’
John Morgan (Swansea): ‘The representation of philosophers in Greek fiction’
Karen Ní Mheallaigh (Swansea): ‘Philosophical absence and the implied author’
Daniel Ogden (Exeter): ‘The philosophers and philosophical positions of Lucian’s Philopseudes’
30th August – 2nd September 2006
Lampeter
Celtic Conference in Classics
Homer Panel:
Hanna Roisman (Colby College): ‘Rhesos' allusions to the Homeric Hektor’
Lynn Kozak (Nottingham): ‘A hero too far: how Sophocles’ Ajax stretches the boundaries of Homeric heroism’
Andrew Morrison (Manchester): ‘Homer and Pindar’
Ian Repath (Lampeter): ‘Homer and Plato's Phaedrus’
Ahuvia Kahane (Royal Holloway): ‘Alcidamas and Homer: death, truth, representation and shame in early antiquity and late modernity’
Mirjam Plantinga (Lampeter): ‘Hera’s speech to Thetis in Apollonius Rhodius’ Argonautica’
Margherita di Nino (Cambridge/Bologna): ‘Forbidden burials: Pythemus an Anti-Odysseus? (Posidipp. 93A-B and Hom. Od. 24.290-96)’
Bob Cowan (Oxford): ‘Drawing Troy in the sand: Homer among the love elegists’
James Burbidge (Oriel College, Oxford): ‘Dido, Anna and the Sirens (Vergil Aeneid 4.437f.)’
Sam Smith (Liverpool): ‘By the light of the moon: Homer’s influence on night raids in Latin epic’
Helen Lovatt (Nottingham): ‘The shield of Achilles and the Imperial epic gaze’
Stephen Harrison (Corpus Christi College, Oxford): ‘Apuleius and Homer’
6th - 9th April 2006
Newcastle
Classical Association
3 KYKNOS Panels:
Konstantin Doulamis (Cork): ‘Barbaroisi esti oute piston oute alēthes ouden: rhetoric and cultural identity in Chariton’
John Morgan (Swansea): ‘Philostratos and Heliodoros: the Emesan connection’
Maria-Elpiniki Oikonomou (Swansea): ‘A fisherman’s tale: the story of Aegialeus in Xenophon of Ephesus’
Meriel Jones (Swansea): 'Soldiers and athletes of love: erotic andreia in The Greek novels’
Gillian Bazovsky (Swansea): ‘Pastoral echoes in nineteenth-century Hellenism’
Owen Hodkinson (Oxford): ‘Private and confidential? The narratives of the fictional letter in the Second Sophistic’
Saiichiro Nakatani (Swansea): ‘Dramatising Achilles Tatius’
Ian Repath (Lampeter): ‘Cleitophon’s Odyssey’
1st - 4th April 2005
Reading
Classical Association
2 KYKNOS Panels:
Konstantin Doulamis (Cork): ‘All's well that ends well: predictive devices, storytelling and the voice of the author in Chariton's Callirhoe’
Meriel Jones (Swansea): ‘The measure of love: male jealousy in Chariton's Chaereas and Callirhoe’
Maria-Elpiniki Oikonomou (Swansea): ‘The concepts of aidos and sophrosyne in the ancient Greek novels’
John Morgan (Swansea): 'Poets and shepherds: Philetas and Longus’
Koen De Temmerman (Ghent and Swansea): ‘The rhetorical and physiognomical construction of characters in Achilles Tatius’
Ian Repath (Lampeter): ‘Homeric names and patterns in Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Cleitophon’
Saiichiro Nakatani (Swansea): ‘French romances written by translators of Achilles Tatius’