Tuesday 5 July 2005 Old Main Building, Pietermaritzburg

8:30 am - 9:00 am

REGISTRATION

Session 1:

VENUE: Colin Webb Hall.

Chair: Prof. Peter Tennant

9:00am - 10:00am

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Prof. Lorna Hardwick

‘Contests and Shifts in Classical Traditions’

VENUE A (Room 18)

Chair: Dr. Christoff Zietsman

VENUE B (Room 20)

Chair: Prof. David Wardle

10:00am - 10:30am

Dr. Isabelle Torrance, 'A Cuban Tragedy: Arrufat's Seven Against Thebes'

Prof. Gottfried Mader, 'Fighting Philip with Decrees: Demosthenes and the Syndrome of Symbolic Action'

10:30am - 11:00am

Dr. Jan Bloemendal, 'Daniel Heinsius' Herodes Infanticida'

Prof. John Atkinson, 'Ethnic Cleansing in Roman Alexandria A.D. 38'

11:00am -11:30am

TEA / COFFEE

Session 2

Chair: Ms. Elke Steinmeyer

Chair: Prof. David Pike

11:30am - 12:00am

Prof. Betine Van Zyl Smit, 'Medea in Afrikaans'

Prof. David Wardle, 'A Perfect Send-off: Suetonius and the Dying Art of Augustus'

12:00am - 12:30pm

Prof. Jo-Marie Claassen, 'Rendering Caesar: Thoughts on the Translation into English of N. P. Van Wyk Louw's Germanicus'

Ms. Clare Weightman, 'The Role of Fate in Octavian's Rise to Power'

12:30am - 1:00pm

Prof. John Hilton, 'The Sacred Cities of the Mind: Roy Campbell and the Classics'

Prof. Marianne Dircksen, 'The Reception History of Tacitus' Annals and Histories and its Relevance for the Analysis of his Work in the Twenty-first Century'

1:00pm - 2:00pm

LUNCH

Session 3

Chair: Prof. B. Van Zyl Smit

Chair: Mr. Michael Lambert

2:00pm - 2:30pm

Prof. William J. Dominik, 'Writing Power and Politics in African Drama Derived from Classical Sources'

Prof. Henk Versnel, 'Tradition versus Reception: Modern Risks in Reading Greek Religion'

2:30pm - 3:00pm

Ms. Concetta Croce, 'Africa in the Classical Tradition: Pier Paolo Pasolini's Notes on an African Oresteia'

Dr. Philip Bosman, 'The Great King and the Dog'

3:00pm – 3:30pm

Ms. Elke Steinmeyer, 'Electra in the Marvel Universe'

Prof. Hansie Wolmarans, 'Jesus the Hero' *

3:30pm - 4:00pm

 TEA / COFFEE

Session 4

Chair: Mrs. Brigette Hopkins

Chair: Dr. Koos Kritzinger

4:00pm - 4:30pm

Mr. Mark Hermans, 'The Fountain of Dreams' *

Dr. Anton Van Hooff, 'Ancient Suicide and Christian Europe' *

4:30pm - 5:00pm

Mr. Adrian Ryan, 'Stylometry in Attic Vase-Painting: A Computer-based Approach' *

Dr. Annemaré Kotzé, 'Augustine's Confessions: The Literary Antecedents'

5:00pm - 5:30pm

Dr. Jessie Maritz, 'HELLAS 2004'*

Mr. David Van Schoor, 'Up for Grabs: What Classics is for'

Wednesday 6 July 2005 T. B. Davis Building, Howard College, Durban

Session 1:

VENUE A (L5) Chair: Dr. Sira Dambe

9:00am - 10:00am

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Alessandro Barchiesi

‘Virgilian Geopoetics: Empire in the Aeneid and After’

VENUE A (L5)

Chair: Dr. Anton van Hoof

VENUE B (L6)

Chair: Prof. W. J. Dominik

10:00am - 10:30am

Prof. David Pike, 'Recent Cinematic Re-examinations of the hero-figure: Brad Pitt's Achilles and Eric Bana's Hector in Troy, and Maximus in Gladiator'

Prof. Joan Booth, 'Amazing Grace; Propertius and the Hellenistic Epigram'

10:30am - 11:00am

Ms Alta Schoeman, 'Romancing the Pearl: A Tale of Two Ear-rings'

Dr. Beatrice Martin, 'The Eclogue Book of Calpurnius Siculus: Tradition and Innovation'

11:00am - 11:30am

TEA / COFFEE

Session 2

Chair: Prof. J-M Claassen

Chair: Mr. Adrian Ryan

11:30am - 12:00am

Mrs. Anne Gosling, 'Dolphin Song: Poetry, Power, and Point in the Myth of Arion'

Dr. Clive Chandler, 'Horace’s mad poets and the doxo­graph­ical tradition on Democritus on Homer'

12:00am - 12:30pm

Dr. Sira Dambe, 'Ovidian Keats and the Poetics of Reciprocity'

Dr. Suzanne Sharland, 'Speaking with Authority: A Bakhtinian Take on Horace Sat. 2.3'

12:30pm - 1:00pm

Ms. Jaqueline Dutton, 'The Rape of the Sabine Women (Ovid's Ars Amatoria 1.101-34): Patriarchy at Work in Rome's Foundation Myth'

Dr. Christoff Zietsman, 'Persius on Poetic (In)digestion'