New translation of Petronius

1 December 2000 issue of the TLS notes that a new translation of Petronius will appear from the Folio Society in London from the pen of Frederic Raphael.

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Heroikos Conference

"Philostratus' Heroikos, Religion, and Cultural Identity," conference on 4-6-May 2001, Cambridge, MA. Details of the conference are found at http://www2.roanoke.edu/religion/maclean/Heroikos/HomePage.html

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University of Crete Conference: Space in the Ancient Novel, 14-15 May 2001

• Luca Graverini, "Corinth and Rome: a Cultural Background for the Ass' Tale."
• S.J. Harrison, "Literary Topography in Apuleius' Metamorphoses."
• David Konstan, "Narrative Spaces."
• Richard Martin, "Discourse and Topos in Achilles Tatius and Philostratus."
• Gerald Sandy, "The Sands of Egypt and the Ancient Novel."
• Niall Slater, "Space and Displacement in Apuleius's Metamorphoses."
• Martin Winkler, "Love and the Chronotope in Daphnis and Chloe and Pleasantville.
• Maaike Zimmerman, "On the Road in Apuleius' Metamorphoses."
• Michael Paschalis, "Reading Space: a Re-examination of Apuleian Ekphrasis."
• Stavros Frangoulidis, "The Laughter Festival as a Community Integration-Rite."

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American Philological Association, 3-6 January 2001

• Kathryn Chew, "The Fragility of Female Beauty in the Greek Novels.
• Pavlos Sfyroeras, "The Mendacity of Knemon and the Reform of the Reader in Heliodoros' Aithiopika."
• Stephen Nimis, "Narrative Redirection: the Case of Chariton and Longus."
• William Finch, "A View from the Garden: Alciphron IV. 14 and the Epicurean Tradition."
• Daniel McGlathery, "Phallic Parody of the Odyssey in Petronius' Circe Episode and Priapea 68."

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Classical Association of the Middle West and South, 19-21 April 2001

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Buenos Aires Conference

Gonçalves, Claudiomar dos Reis, "The Death of Petronius Arbiter in Tacitus' Narrative," at the 16th National Symposium of Classical Studies, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Kentucky Foreign Language Conference 2001