Department of Classics, Cornell University
Uris Library 311 (Media Room)
18 April 2025
8.30: Coffee and breakfast
8.50: Welcome and introduction
Panel 1: Chair, Dawn Lavalle Norman
9.00-9.45: Jaś Elsner (Oxford/Chicago)
Julian of Egypt on Myron's Cow
9.45-10.30: Sherry Lee (Princeton)
Brazen silence, vibrant sound: defying the medium in Christodoros’ Ekphrasis on the Zeuxippos Baths (AP 2.23-31, 38-49, 111-124, 175-88)
Coffee break
Panel 2: Chair, Hayden Pelliccia
11.00-11.45: Verity Platt (Cornell)
Topoi on Typoi in Later Greek Epigram
11.45-12.30: Ben Anderson (Cornell)
Cross as Typos in the "Iconoclast Epigrams"
Lunch
Panel 3: Chair, Athena Kirk
2.00-2.45: Foteini Spingou (Durham)
It's All About the Plates: The Multivalent Domains of Epigrammatic Ekphrasis and the Twelfth-Century Poetic Fever
2.45-3.30: Ivan Drpić (Penn)
A Fearful Stone: Philes and Xanthopoulos on Rock Crystal
Tea break
4.00-4.45: Steven Smith (Hofstra)
The Poet Theosebeia: An Epigrammatic Perspective on the Healing Art in Late Antiquity (AP 7.559)
4.45-5.15: Final discussion
Reception
