"Viewing and Listening in the Ancient World," Conference at Rethymno, 23-25 May 2004

• Ewen Bowie, "Viewing and Listening on the Novelist's Page." 
• Stavros Frangoulidis, "Spectacle and Story-Telling: an Unobserved Parallelism in Petronius' Satyricon 78."

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Ancient Fiction and Early Christian and Jewish Narrative Section, Society of Biblical Literature, San Antonio, Texas, 20-23 November 2004

• C. Shea, "The Mythical Map: Aeneas, Paul, and the Pirates of Penzance." 
• D. Valeta, "Court or Jester Tales? Resistance and Social Reality in Daniel 1-6." 
• T. Donaldson, "Royal Sympathizers in Jewish Narrative." 
• C. Frilingos, "'Position Yourself:' Examinations of Mary in the Protoevangelium of James." 
• R. Cousland, "The Social Context of the Matthean Corpus." 
• E.M. Menn, "Hebrew and Greek Characterization of Queen Esther: Background and Foreground Analyzed." 
• S. Elliott, " 'Witless in Your Own Course:' Divine Plots and Fractured Characters in the Life of Aesop and the Gospel of Mark." 
• D. Dodson, "The Romance of Abraham and Sarah: Novelistic Features in the Apocryphon of Genesis." 
• G. Van den Heever, "Laying the Ghost of Merkelbach to Rest? Ancient Fiction, Religion, and Theory of Fiction."

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American Philological Association, San Francisco, 2-5 January 2004

• M. McCoy, "Satirical Laughter, Carnival Laughter: Barkhtin and Petronius' Satyrica." 
• M. Anderson, "Chariton's Romantic Ideology." 
• S. Smith, "The Erotics of the Hunt: A Xenophontean Trope in Chariton." 
• A. Watanabe, "The Other Hero of the Greek Novel." 
• K. Eshleman, "Inventing the Second Sophistic: Philostratus and his Dissenters." 
• W. Seavey, "Lucian's Lamp: a Platonic Semiology of the Second Sophistic."

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Announcements

Natalie Brietenstein, University of Berne, Switzerland, is planning to write a commentary on the beginning of the Satyricon, c.1-15.

Giulio Vannini of the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, is preparing an annotated bibliography of Petronius, which will cover the years 1975-2005 and will be published in Lustrum. He invites all those scholars whose work might have been omitted by L'Année Philologique, work published by small presses/journals which is not easily found, manuscripts in preparation at publishers, and dissertations in progress, to send him notices, summaries, or copies at Giulio Vannini, Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, I-56126 Pisa, Italy, or to contact him by email at g.vannini@sns.it. He thanks in advance all those who contribute notices, summaries, and copies, which will help to make his project an instrument useful for all Petronian scholars.

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Forthcoming Books

Whitmarsh, T., ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

William Hansen is preparing a Bryn Mawr commentary on the Life of Aesop (Vita Aesopi W). This book will close the series.

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Awards

Niklas Holzberg was awarded the "Preis für gute Lehre" at the University of Munich. An article with color photograph in AZ (8 June 2004) is entitled "Professor Holzberg, Liebling an der Uni. Er liebt Donald Duck und erotische Literatur: Studenten fliegen auf ihn." The award comes with 5,000 euros. Congratulations.

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Obituary

Furiani, Patrizia Liviabella, "Nino Scarcella," Bolletino Storico della Città di Foligno, 23-24 (1999-2000) 405-417. A history of the life of Antonio Scarcella who died on 16 October 2000.

Luisa Bonaria reports that her husband Mario Bonaria died 12 February 2004.

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APA Newsletter Reports Dissertations

Ph.D. Dissertations: C. Star, Action and Self-Control: Apostrophe in Seneca, Lucan, and Petronius. Completed. (University of Chicago). A. Kirichenko The Rhetoric and Poetics of Apuleius' Golden Ass. In progress. (Harvard).

Max Goldman, Problems of Narrative Voice in Petronius' Satyrica. Brown University 2004, under David Konstan.

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