EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
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The spring meeting of the New York Classics Club will be held on Saturday, May 11, at 4:30 pm, at Hunter College in the West Building (southwest corner of Lexington and 68th Street); follow signs that will be posted. Professor Niall Slater, of Emory University's Department of Classics, will speak on “Priapus and the Shipwreck: Envisioning the Satyricon”; he describes his topic as follows:
More than a century ago, Eilimar Klebs proposed that the theme that unified Petronius’s remarkable comic novel, the Satyrica, was “the wrath of Priapus,” a parody of the wrath of Poseidon in the Odyssey. While large sections of the preserved novel seem unconnected with this theme, it does link together several stages in Encolpius’s wanderings around the Mediterranean world. Priapus intervenes directly in the narrative, not only by afflicting Encolpius with impotence, but also, it seems, by luring him onto Lichas’s ship, which is then wrecked off the coast near Croton. Recent archaeological work on the cult of Priapus suggests stronger connections with the sea and ships than have previously been noticed. The talk will examine visual and archaeological evidence as well as the text of the Satyrica for the role of Priapus in Roman life and in Petronius’s comic strategies.
Winners of the annual contests and scholarship competitions will be announced and prizes awarded immediately after Professor Slater's talk. A reception for our speaker, members, and prizewinners and their guests will follow.
Our winter conference this year offers a unique opportunity to hear from scholars who study ancient comedy and to watch Aquila Company, a professional theater company, interpret ancient comedy for the modern stage. Send in your registration as soon as possible to get the members’ pre-registration fee of $25.00 (registration must be received by January 30; for your convenient, you can print and mail this online registration form). The conference will be held from 9:00 – 4:00 on Saturday, February 2, 2002, in New York University's Silverstein Lounge (1st floor of Main building, on the corner of Waverly Place and University Place).
9:00 On-site registration and coffee
9:30 Welcome and Introductions
9:45 Dr. Mary English (Montclair State University), “Stagecraft and Performance in Aristophanes’ Early Comedies”
10:45 Break
11:00 Dr. Robert Ketterer (University of Iowa), “Stagecraft in Plautus’s Amphitruon”
12:00 Lunch
1:00-4:00 Aquila Theatre Company, Performance and Workshop, Aristophanes’ Clouds
The fall meeting was held at the CUNY graduate center on Saturday, October 20 at 3:30 pm. (365 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan between 34th and 35th Streets, diagonally opposite the Empire State Building). The event was co-sponsored by The Graduate Center, CUNY Continuing Education & Public Programs, and by the Classics Department, The Graduate Center, CUNY.
Denis Feeney is Giger Professor of Latin at Princeton University, having held posts at Oxford and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of The Gods in Epic (Oxford, 1991) and Literature and Religion at Rome: Cultures, Contexts and Beliefs (Cambridge, 1998). This is Professor Feeney's description of his talk:
The Romans inherited an interest in aetiology from the Greeks, but their ways of linking the past and the present were distinctively different. The Roman calendar is the main reason that the Romans' interest in aetiology expressed itself in distinctively different ways, and the talk will explore the implications of the calendrical frame of mind, particularly in Ovid's calendar poem, the Fasti.
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