American Philological Association Meeting, January 2004

• M. Anderson, "Chariton's Romantic Ideology." 
• K. Eshlerman, "Inventing the Second Sophistic: Philostratus and his Dissenters." 
• R. Fletcher, "Philosophy in the Bedroom: Sex and Cynicism in the Apuleian Corpus." 
• C. Güthenke, "Greek Love Triangles and the Search for Common Ground." 
• P.S. Horky, "What to do with Eumolpus: an Alternative Pedagogical Model." 
• M. McCoy, "Satirical Laughter, Carnival Laughter: Bakhtin and Petronius' Satyrica." 
• H.P. Obermayer, "Not before Cross-Dressing: Cinaedi under Attack; vestes fallentes and galbini mores in the Literature of Early Imperial Rome." 
• S. Schwartz, "The Delicts of the Countryside in Longus' Daphnis and Chloe." 
• W. Seavey, "Lucian's Lamp: a Platonic Semiology of the Second Sophistic." 
• S.D. Smith, "The Erotics of the Hunt: A Xenophontean Trope in Chariton." 
• A. Watanabe, "The Other Hero of the Greek Novel."

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November 23: Ancient Fiction and Early Christian and Jewish Narrative Group Theme: Religion and Ancient Narrative

• Jo-Ann A. Brant, Goshen College, Presiding. 
• Virginia Burrus, Drew University, "Mimicking Virgins: Colonial Ambivalence and Religious Difference in the Ancient Novel." 
• B. Diane Wudel, Wake Forest University, "When Aseneth Met Thecla: Desire and Restraint in Two Conversion Tales." 
• Scott Johnson, University of Oxford, "Hagiography Killed the Novel? A Case Study on the Fifth-Century Life and Miracles of Thecla." 
• Deborah Thompson Price, University of Notre Dame, "The 'Ghost' of Jesus: Luke 24 in Light of Ancient Narratives of Post-Mortem Apparitions." 
• Dennis R. MacDonald, Claremont School of Theology, "The Breasts of Hecuba and Those of the Daughters of Jerusalem: Luke's Imitation of Iliad 22."

November 24: Ancient Fiction and Early Christian and Jewish Narrative Group Theme: Novel Studies in Testaments: New, Old, and Apocryphal

• Gareth Schmeling, University of Florida, Presiding. 
• Lawrence M. Wills, Episcopal Divinity School, "Jewish Novels as a Laboratory of the Rise of the Ancient Novel." 
• Christine M. Thomas, University of California, Santa Barbara, "Christian Narrative as Historical Novel: Audience and Narrative Fluidity in the Acts of Peter." 
• Edmund Cueva, Xavier University, "A Broader Range of Fiction: The Interplay of the Ancient Novel and Early Christian Narrative." 
• Ilaria Ramelli, Piacenca, Italy, "The Ancient Novels and Possible Contacts with the New Testament."

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Rethymno International Conference on the Ancient Novel (RICAN II), 19-20 May 2003, Department of Philology, University of Crete.

[If there is a god in heaven, and if She is just and paying attention to her earthly playthings, She will allot special rewards (in heaven) to Michael Paschalis and Stavros Frangoulidis of the University of Crete, who organized the whole event. There is probably nothing that She can do for Michael and Stavros in this life, since they already live in Paradise (aka Crete), and Michael reports that the University of Crete will raise his salary by 200 euros in 2003-2004. In our world Greece sets the standards for hospitality, and the people of Crete set the standards in Greece.]

Program Monday 19 May 2003, 10.00 am

• Gareth Schmeling, Chair 
• Tim Whitmarsh (Exeter) "Bordering on: Metaphor and Alterity" 
• Helen Morales (Cambridge) "The Metaphorical Plot of the Ancient Greek Novel" 
• Ken Dowden (Birmingham) "Greek Novel and the Ritual of Life: An Exercise in Taxonomy" 
• Catherine Connors (Washington) "Metaphor and Politics in the Ancient Novel" 
• Steve Nimis (Miami & American University, Cairo) "Egypt as Metaphor in the Ancient Novel"

Monday 19 May 2003 6.00 pm 

• Ken Dowden, Chair 
• Gareth Schmeling (Florida) "Callirhoe: Metaphor and Tradition in an Ancient Novel" 
• Michael Paschalis (Crete) "Constructions of the Country: Longus, Virgil and Theocritus" 
• Ewen Bowie (Oxford) "Longan Metaphor: Micro and Macro" 
• Niall W. Slater (Emory) "Translation as Metaphor in Heliodorus" 
• Richard Hunter (Cambridge) "Allegory and the Novel: Philip the Philosopher on Heliororus' Aithiopika"

Tuesday 20 May 2003, 10.00 am 

• Stephen V. Tracy (ASCSA, Director), Chair 
• Judith Perkins (St. Joseph) "Trimalchio and Metaphor" 
• Alessandro Barchiesi (Arezzo & Stanford) "Metamorphosis and Romanization in Apuleius' Metamorphoses" 
• Stephen J. Harrison (Oxford) "Apuleius and the Epic Metaphor" 
• Luca Graverini (Arezzo) "Sweet and Dangerous? A Metaphor in Apuleius"

Tuesday 20 May 2003, 6.00 pm 

• Stephen J. Harrison, Chair 
• Stavros Frangoulidis (Crete) "Magic and Metaphor: The Case of Aristomenes in Apuleius' Metamorphoses" 
• R.T. van der Paardt (Leiden) "Photis as a Metaphor in Apuleius' Metamorphoses" 
• Paula James (Open University) "Real and Metaphorical Mimicking Birds in the Metamorphoses of Apuleius" 
• Andrew Laird (Warwick) "Metaphors of Representation in the Historia Apollonii Regis Tyrii" 

For further information, please contact the conference organizers at: Michael Paschalis (paschalis@phl.uoc.gr), Stavros Frangoulidis (frango@phl.uoc.gr), Conference email: RICAN@phl.uoc.gr, Stavros Frangoulidis, P.O. Box 255, GR 741 00 - Rethymno

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Petronian Society Munich Section, Niklas Holzberg, Praefectus

• 6 November 2003. Massimo Fusillo (University of Aquila), "Der antike Roman in der zeitgenössischen Kultur." Discussion Leader: Ulrich Rütten. 
• 27 November 2003. Heinz Hofmann (University of Tübingen), "Noch einmal: Wo sind die Landes Galli? Zur Frage der Umarbeitung von Buch 4 der Georgica." Discussion Leader: Karl Bayer 
• 18 December 2003. Kai Brodersen (University of Mannheim), "Von Arminius zu Arminia: Hermann der Cherusker unde sein Nachleben." Discussion Leader: Michael Hotz. 
• 15 January 2004. 1. Wolfgang Kofler (University of Innsbruck) and 2. Martin Korenjak (University of Bern), speaking on the theme of "Werke ohne Leben?" 1. "Intertextualität versus Biographismus"; 2. "Ovid: Werke und Briefe." Discussion will be led by the Speakers. 
• 12 February 2004. Kostas Panayotakis (University of Glasgow), "Pulchra poemata? Editing Laberius' Mimes." Discussion Leader: Markus Dubischar. 
• 25 March 2004. Werner von Koppenfels (University of Munich), Title to be announced. 
• 29 April 2004. Stefan Rebenich (University of Mannheim), "Amicus incertus in re certa: Der Briefwechsel zwischen Hieronymus und Augustin." Discussion Leader: Stefan von der Lahr. 
• 3 June 2004. Titus Heydenreich (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg), "Lukian und die Folgen: Totengespräche in der italienischen Literatur." 

[For a perfectly delightful experience with friends, please visit the Petronian Society Munich Section website at http://www.petroniansociety.privat.t-online.de]

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Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Lexington, Kentucky, 3-5 April 2003

• D. Rohrbacher, "Ammianus Marcellinus and the Ancient Novel." 
• Melissa Barden Dowling, "The Cult of Isis and the Suffering Heroine in the Roman Novel and in Imperial Culture." 
• Jean Alvares, "Heliodorus' Calasiris as Exiled Sophist."

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Books to appear

Whitmarsh, J., ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel (Cambridge University Press, 2004 [?]).

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APA Newsletter Reports Dissertations (June 2003)

Max Goldman, Problems of Narrative Voice in Petronius' Satyrica, Brown University, under David Konstan.

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Obituary

A.D. Papanikolaou, editor of the Teubner text of Xenophon of Ephesus, died this spring, 2003.

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