"diversa exsilia et desertas quaerere terras (Aen. 3.4):

"Greeks in Rome and Romans in Greece"

Wednesday, June 18 through Saturday, June 21, 2008 Villa Vergiliana, CumalBacoli, Napoli, Italy

 Wednesday, June 18

Cults and Sanctuaries

BARBETTE STANLEY SPAETH (College of William and Mary), “A Pilgrimage to Peirene? Ethnicity and Religious Practice in Roman Corinth”

ANNELIES CAZEMIER (University of Oxford/ British School at Rome), “When in Greece, do as the Greeks do: Roman Worship of Gods on Greek Soil”

Greeks Abroad

GARY D. FARNEY (Rutgers University) “The Impact of the ‘Spartan Mirage’ on the Foreign Policy and Political Culture of Italy and Rome.”

JACEK RZEPKA (Institute of History, Warsaw University, Warszawa, Poland), “Federal Greeks Abroad

LUCIANO ALBANESE, (Università di Roma-La Sapienza), “Cicerone e l’epicureismo”

BENJAMIN GOLDLUST (University of Paris), “The Influence of Greek Culture on the Poetry of Ausonius: Greece as a Cultural Identity?”

Thursday, June 19  

Immigrants in a New Land

PATRICIA A. JOHNSTON (Brandeis University), “Juno Lucina/ Moneta/ Sospita”

HANS SMOLENAARS (University of Amsterdam), “An Ideological Promenade in Future Rome: Vergilius Aeneis 8. 306-69”

LUIS RIVERO (Universidad Huelva, Spain), “Enea in Sicilia: osservazioni critiche sul testo di Verg. Aen. III 581 e 684-686”

GIULIA MASCI (University of Turin), “Identity Under Construction: Rome and The Sabines” [L’identità In Costruzione: Roma e I Sabini]

FABIO STOK (Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata), “Cultura e identità nel Virgilio di Sebastiano Vassalli”

A Sense of the "Foreign" in Other Authors

CHIARA O. TOMMASI (University of Pisa) “Greek seers, Roman soldiers (and the gods). Conflicting cultures in Lucan's Civil War”

MARIE-LAURE FREYBURGER-GALLAND (L’Université de Haute-Alsace), “Cassius Dio, a Greek in Italy at the End of the 2nd Century”

ISABELLE GASSINO (Université de Rouen [France]- ERIAC) “Luciano lo straniero: un Siriano ellenizzato ma non troppo” (“Lucian the foreigner”).

DEBORAH LYONS (Miami University), “Seeing Greece through Rome and vice versa: Plutarch, Pausanias and the Imagined Greek Past”

IRENE PEIRANO (Yale University), “Pyrrhus’ Anagnorisis: Greeks Meeting Romans in Dionysius of Halicarnassus Antiquitates Romanae

 Friday, June 20        

The Etruscan Presence

GERARD CAPDEVILLE (University of Paris), “Gli Etruschi e la Grecia, gli Etruschi in Grecia” ( “Etruscans and Greece, Etruscans in Greece” )

SIMONA CAROSI (Università di Roma-La Sapienza), “Veio, Roma e il culto di Cerere/Demetra”

FLAVIA CALISTI (Università di Roma-La Sapienza), “Re stranieri e divine profetesse”

Saturday, June 21    

“Exile”

LOREDANA MARANO and SALVATORE CONTE (Centrum Latinitatis Europae), L’esilio di Ottavia, il destino di Ifigenia e l’ombra di Agrippina

CHARLES GUITTARD (University of Paris) “Greek Presence in Primitive Latium and Italy: the Origin of the Cult of Saturnus.”

PAOLA CORRENTE (Universidad Complutense Madrid), “Priapus from Lampsacus to Pompeii: Roman Enculturation of a Greek Deity”

GIUSEPPE RAMIRES (Messina), “Trovare la morte lontano dalla patria”

MARIA RYBAKOVA (San Diego State University), “Typology of Literary Exile: Odysseus and Aeneas” [This paper will be read by Giancarlo Abbamonte (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)]

BOYD-CARRIGAN, DAVID, Panormus (In Oblivionem Patriae)

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