Third Interdisciplinary Symposium
on the Heritage of Western Greece
Revised Schedule 4/30/17
Thursday, May 25
14.00 Registration Opens
16.00 Opening Session
Welcome
Heather L. Reid, Fonte Aretusa Organization
Susi Kimbell, Sicily Center for International Education
Christos C. Evangeliou, Towson University, USA
Poetry Reading
Thomas Noble Howe
Fondazione Restoring Ancient Stabiae, Italy and Southwestern University, Texas, USA
Bold Imitator: The Arrival of the Greek Monumental “Orders,”
the Autodidact Polymath Architect and the Apollonion of Syracuse
Movie: Siracusa 3D Reborn
18.00 Walking Tour of Ortigia
20.00 Welcome Dinner
Palazzo Francica Nava, via Landolina 5, Siracusa
Friday, May 26
9.00 First Morning Session (Plenary)
Moderator: Heather L. Reid, Fonte Aretusa & Morningside College, USA
Christos Evangeliou, Towson University, USA
Man as the Most Mimetic Animal According to Aristotle
Francisco Gonzalez, University of Ottawa, Canada
The Philosophical Use of Mimêsis
Gene Fendt, University of Nebraska-Kearney, USA
Playing the Platonic Flute: Mimesis and Truth in Republic 10
10.30 Coffee Break
11.00 Second Morning Session (Parallel – Room A)
Moderator: Jonah Radding, University of Chicago, USA
Ippolyti Kakava, University of Ioannina, Greece
Achilles’ Shield in Theocritus’ 15: An Imitation in Vitro
Paola Gagliardi, Università degli Studi della Basilicata
Le metamorfosi di Dafni da Teocrito a Virgilio
Iris Sulimani, The Open University of Israel
Emulation in Diodorus Siculus: The Role of History and Sicilian Role-models
11.00 Second Morning Session (Parallel – Room B)
Moderator: Deborah Modrak, University of Rochester, New York, USA
Sean Driscoll, Boston College, USA
Linguistic Mimesis in Plato’s Cratylus
Elliott Domagola, University of Pittsburgh, USA
The Mimetic Skill of Alcibiades:
Understanding his ‘Chameleon-Like’ Character through Plato’s Mimesis in Sophist
Alexander Zistakis
Mimesis – Imitation and/or Representation: Plato and his modern Successors
12.30 Lunch (included)
14.00 First Afternoon Session (Plenary)
Moderator: Giulia Corrente, Università degli Studi ‘Roma Tre’, Italy
Argyri Karanasiou, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
“Imitating” vs “Inventing”: Defining stagecraft in Roman Comedy in the case of Plautus
Justin Dwyer, University of British Columbia, Canada
Mimesis in the Comedy of Apollodorus of Gela
Laura Tisi, Università degli Studi di Trento
Mimesis, a post-classical example: POxy 2746
15.30 Coffee Break
16.00 Second Afternoon Session (Parallel – Room A)
Moderator: Joanne Waugh, University of South Florida, USA
Jeremy DeLong, University of Kansas, USA
Parmenides, Plato, and Mίμησις
Doug Al-Maini, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
The Opposition between Love and Strife in Empedocles
Dorota Tymura, Maria Curie Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland
The Cynic Way of Life as Mimesis
16.00 Second Afternoon Session (Parallel – Room B)
Moderator: Tony Leyh, Emory University, USA
Ewa Osek, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
“Imitating the ancient manner of life”: during the local Thesmophoria at Syracuse
Jure Zovko, University of Zadar, Croatia
Mimesis in Plotinus’ Philosophy of Art
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17.30 Sessions End
18.00 Excursion to Greek Theater for Aeschylus’ Seven against Thebes
Saturday, May 27
9.00 First Morning Session (Parallel – Room A)
Moderator: Susi Kimbell, Sicily Center for International Education
Giulia Corrente, Università degli Studi ‘Roma Tre’, Italy
Μουσική e Μίμησις: aspetti della cultura musicale dei Greci d’Occidente
Manuela Cuadra, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Ermae. Da custodi dei confini a custodi dei giardini.
Valentina Mignosa, Università Ca’ Foscari – Venezia, Italy
L’Ermocrate di Tucidide alla ξύνοδος di Gela: mimesi retorica tra ricostruzione e invenzione
9.00 First Morning Session (Parallel – Room B)
Moderator: Konstantinos Gkaleas, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Tiberiu Popa, Butler University, Indianapolis, USA
Time and the Imitation of God
Marie-Elise Zovko, Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb, Croatia
The Divine Poet: Mimesis and Becoming Like God in Plato
Leslaw Lesyk, University of Warsaw, Poland
Ἕπου θεῷ (“follow god”):
The mimetic tradition in the interpretation of the Delphic maxim from ca. 600 B.C. to A.D. 1474
10.30 Coffee Break
11:00 Second Morning Session (Parallel – Room A)
Moderator: Thomas Noble Howe, Fondazione Restoring Ancient Stabiae
Anna Motta, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
La mimesis negli anonimi neoplatonici Prolegomena alla Filosofia di Platone
Julia Pfefferkorn, Universität Tübingen, Germany and Università di Salerno, Italy
Dalla follia divina alla danza mimetica: su un’affinità tra Fedro e Leggi
Lidia Palumbo, Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy
La scrittura mimetica di Platone. Appunti sulla virtù.
11:00 Second Morning Session (Parallel – Room B)
Moderator: Ippolyti Kakava, University of Ioannina, Greece
Aura Piccioni, Institut für Klassische Archäologie an der Universität Regensburg, Germany
“Mimesis for a Cult: The Case of Western Greek Clay Figurines of Female Dancers”
Katarzyna Kolakowska, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
The Mimetic Character of Ritual Toys
José Miguel Puebla, Independent Researcher, Spain
Imitation Game? The first mintings of Punic Sicily
12:30 Lunch (included)
14.00 First Afternoon Session (Plenary)
Moderator: Argyri Karanasiou, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
Keely Heuer, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA
Tenacious Tendrils: Replicating Nature in South Italian Vase Painting
Aimee Genova, University of Chicago, USA
Embodiment and Mimetic Form:
Political Impetus of the Deinomenidai as Reflected through the Francavilla and Lokrian Pinakes
15:00 Excursion to museum and archaeological site
18:00 Excursion to Greek Theater to see Euripides’ Phoenician women
Sunday, May 28
9.00 First Morning Session (Plenary)
Moderator: Francisco Gonzalez, University of Ottawa, Canada
Joanne Waugh, University of South Florida, USA
Conquering Mimēsis
Carolina Araujo, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plato’s Republic on Mimetic Poetry and Empathy
Ikko Tanaka, J. F. Oberlin University, Tokyo, Japan
Mimesis in Plato’s Timaeus
10.30 Coffee Break
11.00 Second Morning Session (Parallel Room A)
Moderator: Moderator: Doug Al-Maini, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Filotheia Bogoiu, Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania
”Imitating those who tell the truth” (Aeschines 3.99):
Corax’ principle of eikos in the judicial combat between Demosthenes and Aeschines
Tony Leyh, Emory University, USA
Not Only the Poets: Plato’s Mimetic Arguments against Rhetoric and Isocrates’ Response
Omar Alvarez, UNAM, Mexico
From Imitation to Forgery: the Rise of Pseudepigraphy in the Greek West
11:00 Second Morning Session (Parallel Room B)
Jeremy DeLong, University of Kansas, USA
Deborah Modrak, University of Rochester, New York, USA
Mimesis, appearance and childhood education in Plato’s Republic
Flora de Carvalho Mangini, PUC-Rio, Brazil
Identity and Social Models: The mimetic rearing of thumós in Plato’s Republic
Guilherme Motta, Universidade Católica de Petrópolis / PUC-Rio, Brazil
On the quantitative restriction of μίμησις in Plato’s Republic
12.30 Lunch (included)
14.00 First Afternoon Session (Plenary)
Moderator: Tiberiu Popa, Butler University, Indianapolis, USA
Virginia Lewis, Florida State University, USA
τέρας μὲν θαυμάσιον προσιδέσθαι: Representations of Aitnaian Identity in Pindar’s Pythian 1
Jonah Radding, University of Chicago, USA
Bacchylides, Hieron, and the failure of didactic mimesis
William Tortorelli, Texas Tech University, USA
Rivalry with Homeric Epic in Western Greek Lyric Poetry
15.30 Coffee Break
16.00 Second Afternoon Session (Plenary)
Moderator: Christos C. Evangeliou, Towson University USA
Leon Wash, University of Chicago, USA
Pindar and the Imitation of Herakles among Poets and Philosophers
Konstantinos Gkaleas, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Ὄρχησις, a physical ἔθος, and the μίμησις of virtue in Plato’s Laws
Heather L. Reid, Morningside College, USA
Athletic Beauty as Mimēsis of Virtue: The Case of the Beautiful Boxer
17.30 Closing Remarks
19.00 Sunset Boat Cruise in Porto Grande
20.00 Final Banquet
Tuesday-Wednesday, May 30-31: Post-conference tour
Morgantina-Aidone-Villa Romana del Casale-Agrigento-Catania