Open Access Australasian Society for Classical Studies Proceedings

ASCS 31 [2010] Proceedings
Refereed papers from the 31st conference of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies
edited by Neil O'Sullivan

These papers were originally presented at the 31st conference of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies, convened by my colleague, Dr Lara O'Sullivan, and held in Perth at the University of Western Australia, 2-5 February 2010. ASCS is the peak body in Australasia for the professional study of the classical world, and its conference is the largest annual meeting in the region for the dissemination of new research in this very international field. The Discipline Group of Classics and Ancient History at UWA wishes to acknowledge the generous contribution of the UWA Vice-Chancellor, Professor Alan Robson, in support of this event...

Contents

M. Beasley	A philosophical Gigantomachy in the Metamorphoses	abstract	full text
F. Billot	Hannibal, elephants and turrets	abstract	full text
D. Blyth	Philosophy in the late Latin West	abstract	full text
D. Burton	The role of Zeus Meilichios in Argos	abstract	full text
M.W. Champion	Creation from Gaza	abstract	full text
J. Davidson	Prometheus Bound in Christchurch 2009	abstract	full text
S. Ford	Spatial context of Odyssey 5.452 to 6.317	abstract	full text
S. Gador-Whyte	Emotional preaching: ekphrasis in the Kontakia of Romanos	abstract	full text
P. Garrett	Character inheritance in Suetonius' Caligula and Nero	abstract	full text
M. Gillett	The 'Etruscan League' reconsidered	abstract	full text
K.M. Heineman	The chasm at Delphi: a modern perspective	abstract	full text
D. James	Art of gold: precious metals and Chariton's Callirhoe	abstract	full text
P. Jarvis	The politics of fraud: a Seruilius Casca in Livy	abstract	full text
P. Johnson	Fabius, Marcellus and Otacilius - the alliance that never was	abstract	full text
D. Keenan-Jones	The Aqua Augusta and control of water resources in the Bay of Naples	abstract	full text
B. Leadbetter	Galerius, Gamzigrad and the politics of abdication	abstract	full text
J. Maitland	Homer and the Aiakid cousins: kinship celebrated or overlooked in the Iliad	abstract	full text
B. Marshall	'With friends like this, who needs enemies?' Pompeius' abandonment of his friends and supporters	abstract	full text
S. Midford	From Achilles to Anzac: Heroism in the Dardanelles from antiquity to the Great War	abstract	full text
G. Miles	'I, Porphyry': narrator and reader in the Vita Plotini	abstract	full text
P. O'Sullivan	Use your illusion: 'Critias' on religion reconsidered	abstract	full text
K.J. O'Toole	The Demosthenic basileus: a phantom in the Ath. Pol.?	abstract	full text
D.J. Phillips	Thucydides 1.99: tribute and revolts in the Athenian empire	abstract	full text
D. Pritchard	War, democracy and culture in classical Athens	abstract	full text
R. Sing	Jury pay and Aristophanes	abstract	full text
H. Tarrant	The Theaetetus as a narrative dialogue?	abstract	full text
W.J. Tatum	Tyche in Plutarch's Aemilius Paulus - Timoleon	abstract	full text
J. Wallis	(Un)Elegiac characterisation in Propertius 3.12	abstract	full text
K. Welch	Pietas, Pompeiani and Cicero's Thirteenth Philippic	abstract	full text