Menander in Contexts

23 - 25 July 2012
Lincoln Hall, University of Nottingham

It is now over a century since Menander made his first great step back from the shades with the publication of the Cairo codex, and over half a century since we were first able to read one of his plays virtually complete; since that time our knowledge of his work has been continually enhanced by further papyrus discoveries. This international conference is designed to examine and explore the Menander we know today in the light of the various literary, intellectual and social contexts in which they can be viewed, more particularly in relation to

• the society, culture and politics of the post-Alexander decades
• the intellectual currents of the period
• literary precursors and intertexts, especially in comedy and tragedy
• the reception of Menander, in antiquity and in modern times

Speakers:

Toni Badnall, Susan Deacy and Fiona McHardy:  "So nature willed, and nature heeds no laws": Menander in biopoetical perspective

Eftykhia Bathrellou:  Slaving strategies and strategies of slaves in Menander

Horst-Dieter Blume: Money and love in Menander's comedies

Emiliano Buis: Nothing to do with Athenian law? Legal poetics and the problem of debt-bondage in Menander's Heros

Angelo Casanova:  Menander and the Peripatos: new insights about an old question

Valerie Cinaglia: Menander, Aristotle, chance, and accidental ignorance

Christophe Cusset: Melancholic lovers in Menander

William Furley: "That makes her my sister": aspects of recognition in Perikeiromene

Robert Germany: The unity of time in Menander

Johanna Hanink: Menander's Dionysia

Stanley Ireland: Menander: a social source

Sharon James: Rethinking rape in Menander's comedy and Athenian life: modern comparative evidence

Orestis Karavas and Jean-Luc Vix:  Sur la reception de Ménandre à l'époque imperial

Stavroula Kiritsi: Menander's Epitrepontes in modern Greek theatre: the "poetics" of its reception and performance

Mario Lamagna: Military culture and Menander

Gunther Martin: Menander's drama of misunderstanding in context

Sarah Miles: Staging and constructing the divine in Menander

Graham Oliver: Menander and the economies of Athens and Attica

Athina Papachrysostomou: Continuity and change in the comic genre or how it all ended up with Menander

Styliani Papastamati: Menandrian marriage in context

Alan Sommerstein: Menander and the pallaké

Ariana Traill:  Inflections of the tragic nurse in Menander

Olga Tribulato: "Not even Menander would use this word": Menander as polemical target and linguistic source in Attic lexicography

Serena Witzke: An ideal reception: Menander, Terence, and Oscar Wilde

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