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“Corhali” Colloquium XXII
THE SIMILES OF THE ILIAD
A. D. White House, Cornell University
Thursday-Saturday May 30-June 1 2013
Corhali advance program May 24 2013
THIS PROGRAM IS SUBJECT TO CHANGES AS ANNOUNCED
WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, AFTERNOON:
Arrival and check-in on Cornell campus at Statler Hotel or Robert Purcell Community Center for North Campus Townhouses
6pm-8pm buffet dinner at A. D. White House (Cornell Catering, Picnic cold supper)
THURSDAY, MAY 30: A. D WHITE HOUSE, CORNELL UNIVERSITY, ROOM 110
8-10:00am: BREAKFAST buffet at A. D. White House (Ithaca bakery)
Session I: THEORIES OF THE SIMILE
10-11:00 Chair: Jeffrey Rusten (Cornell)
--Classifying and Categorizing the Homeric Simile (Jonathan Ready, Indiana)
--Questions of temporality in the similes of the Iliad (Carlamaria Lucci, Lausanne)
(break)
11:30-12:30 Chair: David Elmer (Harvard)
--When Similes Become Images. On the relation between themes in Iliadic comparisons and scenes in the shield of Achilles (Leopoldo Iribarren, EHESS Paris)
--Analogy and Reflexivity in Iliadic similes : One Horse, Two Heroes (VI 506-513 and XV 263-270) (Philippe Rousseau, Lille)
12:30-2:00 LUNCH break (on your own in Collegetown)
Session II: FAMOUS SIMILES
2:00-3:30 Chair: Pierre Judet de la Combe (EHESS Paris)
--Iliad 2.478-79 and Dumézilian Trifunctionalism (David Elmer, Harvard)
--Achilles, the Lion and the Fountain (David Bouvier, Lausanne)
--Lion at the Feast: Iliad 24.39-45 and Apollo's αἶνος (Keating McKeon, Harvard)
6:00-9:00 pm DINNER on M/V Columbia, Cayuga Lake (departure from Townhouses and Statler at 5:30pm)
FRIDAY, MAY 31: A. D WHITE HOUSE, CORNELL UNIVERSITY
8-9:30am: BREAKFAST buffet at A. D. White House
SESSION IIIA : ANIMALS IN THE SIMILES
9:30-11:00 Chair: Marcello Carastro (EHESS Paris)
--Crawling Between Heaven and Earth: Insect Similes in the Iliad (James Townshend, Harvard)
--The Similes of the Iliad and the Odyssey Compared : Mirror Effects Between Human Beings and Animals (Sylvie Galhac, Lille)
-- Is There a Lion in that Simile? The Expansion of Zoological Similes in the Homeric Scholia (Emilio Capettini, Princeton)
(break)
SESSION IIIB NATURE AND GODS IN THE SIMILES
11:30-1:00 pm Chair: Andew Ford (Princeton)
--Glowing Similes: Semantics and Symbolics of Fire in the Iliad (Marco Romani Mistretta, Harvard)
--The Star-similes (Pietro Pucci, Cornell)
--Can Gods be Compared to Men? (Manon Brouillet, EHESS Paris)
1:00-2:30 LUNCH Break (on your own in Collegetown)
SESSION IVA CLUSTERS OF SIMILES
2:30-3:30 (Chair: David Bouvier (Lausanne)
--The Cranes, the Flies and the Bull: Some Suggestions for the Interpretation of the Sequence of Similes in the second book of the Iliad (vv. 445-483) (Sarah Lagrou, Lille)
--Form and Odyssean Simile in Odyssey 5 (Martin Steinrück, Fribourg)
(break)
SESSION IVB SIMILES AND INDIVIDUALS
4:00-5:00 Chair: Philippe Rousseau (Lille)
--Similes and the Characterization of Paris in the Iliad (Ombretta Cesca, Lausanne)
--Tradition, Narrative, and Reversed Role Similes in Homer (Madeleine Goh, Center for Hellenic Studies)
7-9 pm: DINNER in the Rowe room at Banfi's restaurant in the Statler Hotel
SATURDAY, JUNE 1: A. D WHITE HOUSE, CORNELL UNIVERSITY
8:00-10:00: BREAKFAST buffet at A. D. White House
SESSION V SIMILES IN OTHER AUTHORS
10:00-11:30 Chair: Pietro Pucci (Cornell)
--As a Woman: Aedic songs and Odysseus' tears (Odyssey 8, 523-531) (Marcello Carastro, EHESS Paris)
--Iliadic Similes in the Scutum Hesiodi? Time and Narrative in Catalogue Epic (Ella Haselswerdt, Princeton)
--How does Didactic Simile work in the Iliad ? The Analysis of an Early Poet and Philosopher, Empedocles (Xavier Gheerbrant, Lille)
11:30-12:00 General Discussion
12:00 FAREWELLS