Penn-Leiden Colloquia on Ancient Values IV

KAKOS: Badness and Anti-Values in Classical Antiquity

Terrace Room, Logan Hall, University of Pennsylvania

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Thursday, June 1, 2006:

12:30-1:00:            Coffee

1:00-1:30:            Welcome and Introduction: Ineke Sluiter (Leiden University)

Paper Session 1            (Chair: Jeremy McInerney)

1:30-2:10:           Nick Fisher (Cardiff University)

The boyfriend, the flatterer and the sycophant: related forms of kakos in democratic

Athens

2:10-2:50:            Matthew Christ (Indiana University)

Imagining bad citizenship in classical Athens: Aristophanes’ Eccl. 730-876

2:50-3:10:           Coffee break

Paper Session 2           (Chair: Kathryn Morgan)

3:10-3:40:           Susannah Herman (Leiden University)

Who’s bad? Calling other people kakos in Sophocles’ Ajax

3:40-4:10:           Jeremy Leftt (University of Pennsylvania)

Ugliness and value in the 'Life of Aesop'

4:10-4:30:           Coffee break

Paper Session 3           (Chair: Sheila Murnaghan)

4:30-5:10:           Kristina Chew (Saint Peter’s College)

The bad and the ugly: kakos and disability in Sophocles’ Philoctetes

5:10-5:50:           Ian Storey (Trent University)

‘Bad’ language in Old Comedy

5:50-6:45:            Reception

Friday, June 2, 2006:

8:00-8:30:           Coffee

Paper Session 4           (Chair: Peter Struck)

8:30-9:10:            Kathryn Morgan (UCLA)        

Base speech acts and the problem of badness in Pindar

9:10-9:50:            Deborah Steiner (Columbia University)

Beetle tracks: entomology, scatology and the discourse of abuse

9:50-10:10:           Coffee break

Paper Session 5           (Chair: Robert Kaster)

10:10-10:50:           Christian Wildberg (Princeton University)

Less in good is more in the bad: Plotinus on Evil

10:50-11:30:           John Mulhern (University of Pennsylvania)

Kakia in Aristotle

11:30-11:50:           Coffee break

Paper Session 6           (Chair: Ineke Sluiter)

11:50-12:30:           James Porter (University of Michigan)

The disgrace of matter in ancient aesthetics

12:30-1:10:           Andromache Karanika (Temple University)

Fortune verses: constructions of evil in magical papyri

1:10-2:30:            Lunch

Paper Session 7           (Chair: Elaine Fantham)

2:30-3:00:           Ed Sanders (University College London)

Pathos kakon: Aristotle and the rhetoric of phthonos

3:00-3:30:           Todd Krulak (University of Pennsylvania)

Philosophical antecedents to Iamblichean theodicy

3:30-3:50:           Coffee break

Paper Session 8           (Chair: Joseph Farrell)

3:50-4:25:           Florence Limburg (Leiden University)

The representation and role of badness in Seneca’s moral teaching: a case from the Naturales Quaestiones

4:25-5:00:           Anna Zawadzka (University of Warsaw)

White skin is bad: stereotyping of the Celts

5:00-6:15:           Reception

Saturday, June 3, 2006:

8:00-8:30:           Coffee

Paper Session 9           (Chair: James Ker)

8:30-9:00:            Martijn Icks           (Radboud University, Nijmegen)

Heliogabalus, a monster on the Roman throne – the literary construction of a ‘bad’ emperor

9:00-9:30:            Christopher van den Berg (Yale University)

Malignitas in its social and aesthetic contexts

9:30-10:10:            Yelena Baraz (Trinity College)

From vice to virtue: the denigration and rehabilitation of superbia in ancient Rome

10:10-10:20:           Coffee break

Paper Session 10           (Chair: Brent Shaw)

10:20-11:00:           Elaine Fantham (Princeton University)

With malice aforethought: genre, ethics and forensics of malitia

11:00-11:40:           Amanda Wilcox (Williams College)

Nature’s monster: Caligula as exemplar in Seneca’s dialogues

11:40-12:00:           Coffee break

12:00-12:30: General Discussion, Summation  and Conclusion of Colloquium: Ralph Rosen (University of Pennsylvania)