EPOS AND MYTHOS: LANGUAGE AND NARRATIVE IN HOMERIC EPIC

A Conference in Honor of John Peradotto

Papers now published as Arethusa 35.1 (Winter 2002)

'Reading Homer' --Alma-Tadema (1836-1912)

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Alma-Tadema (1836-1912) "Reading Homer".

APRIL 14-15, 2000
Center for the Arts, Screening Room
University at Buffalo North Campus



FRIDAY APRIL 14, 2:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Martha Malamud, University at Buffalo

Gregory Nagy, Harvard University
The Mantic Vision of Homeric Poetry

Pietro Pucci, Cornell University
The Theology of the Iliad

Nancy Felson, University of Georgia
Between the Generations: Protocol and Paradigm in Iliad I, IX, and XXIV

John Peradotto, University at Buffalo
Prophecy and Persons: Reading Character in the Odyssey


SATURDAY APRIL 15, 9:00 a.m.-12:00 noon
Chair: Timothy Boyd, University at Buffalo

Lillian Doherty, University of Maryland
The Narrative 'Openings' in the Odyssey

Egbert Bakker, University of Montreal
Remembering the God's Arrival: Opening the Apollo Hymn

Matthew Clark, York University
Fighting Words: How Heroes Argue

Roger Woodard, University at Buffalo
The Disruption of Time in Greek Epic


SATURDAY APRIL 15, 2:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: John Dugan, University at Buffalo

Frederick M. Ahl, Cornell University
Fiction and Myth in the Odyssey

Sheila Murnaghan, University of Pennsylvania
The Trials of Telemachus

Walter Donlan, University of California at Irvine
Doing Favors, Getting Thanks: Politics of Power

Carolyn Higbie, University at Buffalo
Quoting the Iliad


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THE ANDREW V.V. RAYMOND CHAIR OF CLASSICS
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