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April 12, 2003

Benton-Bingham Ballroom, Memorial Union (north tower)
9:30   Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:50   Introductory Remarks – Lee Patterson, University of Missouri
10:00  First Session

        Joel Christensen (New York University)
             "Quoting Homer: The Use and Misuse of Homeric Epic in Suetonius’ Julio-Claudian Lives"

        Charilaos Michalopoulos (University of Leeds)
             "Echoes of Hellenistic Epigram in Latin Love Elegy"

10:40 Coffee Break

11:00 Second Session

        David A. Webb (University of Missouri)
             "Benefactors of a Wandering Temple"

        Francesca Tronchin (Boston University)
             "Achaia in the Pompeian House"

11:40 Discussion of Morning Sessions’ Papers
12:10 – 1:30 Lunch Break
1:30   Third Session

        Kristopher Fletcher (University of Michigan)
             "Philosophy in the Language of Empire: Cicero and the Translation of Greek Ideas"

        Doug Freeble (Ohio State University)
             "Thessaly’s Woman: A Representative Anecdote in Livy"

        Adam Kemezis (University of Michigan)
             "Models of Hellenism in the Bithynian Orations of Dio of Prusa"

2:30   Coffee Break
2:45   Discussion of Afternoon Session’s Papers
3:15   Keynote address

        Robert Lamberton (Washington University at St. Louis)
             "Rhetorical Questions: Plutarch, Greece, and Rome"

5:00   Conference Adjourns

5:10    Reception Following at TBA



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