UB Classics Conference on Greek Prophets and Prophecy: The Peradotto Sessions – 03/11/2016, New York

FECHA/DATE/DATA: 03/11/2016

LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: The Union League Club (New York, USA)

ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Department of Classics (University of Buffalo)

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Morning session:

9:00 – 12:00; Chair: Lowell Edmunds, Rutgers University

Fields: “False Prophets and False Prophecies in Lucian”: 9:00–10:00

Higbie: “The Interpretation of Hexameter: Poets, Prophets, and Critics”: 10:00–11:00

Calame: “Divinatory Practices, Prophecy and the ‘Raison des Signes’ in Classical Greece”: 11:00–12:00

Lunch: 1:00–2:00

Afternoon session: 2:00 – 5:00; Chair: Roger Woodard: University at Buffalo

Nagy: “The Dynamism of Mouvance in the Pronouncements of the Delphic Oracle”: 2:00–3:00

Parker: “Oracle and Client”: 3:00–4:00

Teegarden: “Unfavorable Military Sacrifices in Xenophon’s Historical Works”: 4:00–5:00