Tuesday, July 28t h 18:00 21:00Reception, Village Ridge Boutique
Hotel, Pretoria Wednesday, July29t h 09:00 09:30Registration 09:30
09:45Welcome (Prof Greg Cuthbertson, Dean of the College of
Graduate Studies, Unisa) 09:45 10:30 Session 1Chair:Martine De
Marre 09:45 10:30Federico Santangelo (Newcastle),Divination &
Profit in the Roman World. 10:30 11:15Refreshments 11:15
13:00Session 2 Chair:Alex Nice 11:15 11:45Jeffrey Murray (Cape
Town), Astrology in Valerius Maximus 11:45 12:15Luca di Campobianco
(Johannesburg),On oracles and free will.The case of Perseus the
fatedmurderer 12:15 13:00Ralph Anderson (St Andrews),A story of
blood, guts and guesswork: synthetic reasoning in classical Greek
divination 13:00 14:00Lunch 14:00 15:30Session 3 Chair:Luca di
Campobianco 14:00 14:40Claudia Fratini (Unisa),LOracolo (1990)/The
Oracle (2005): the katbasis of Odysseus as prophetic action in the
narrative of present 14:40 15:15Szerdy Nagy
(KwaZulu-Natal),Prophecy and Paul Kruger: Robert Grendons
appropriation of Greco-Roman prophets and prophetic devices in his
South African Epic, Paul Krugers Dream 15:30Tea & Coffee 18:00
21:00Dinner Prophets and Profits 16TH UNISACLASSICS COLLOQUIUM
/CLASSICAL RECEPTION ANNUAL COLLOQUIUM 28 July 1August2015 Village
Ridge Bout ique Hot el, Nieu Muckleneuk Thursday,July 30t h 09:00
10:30 Session 4Chair:Jon Solomon 09:00 09:30Lisa Maurice (Bar
Ilan),Screening Immortals in a Secular world 09:30 10:00Arturo
Sanchez (Complutense U of Madrid),Ancient divination in Eurasia.
The Enarees in Scythian culture 10:00 10:30Reina Pereira(Beira
Interior, Portugal), Blasphemy: are prophets crooks? An analysis of
IA 956-958 10:30 11:10Refreshments 11:15 13:00 Session 5Chair:
Federico Santangelo 11:15 11:45Philip Bosman (Unisa),Value-added
divination at Dodona 11:45 12:15Richard Evans (Unisa), Was Didyma
(Branchidae) a false oracle? 12:15 13:00Alex Nice (Witwatersrand/ U
Libre de Bruxelles), From Astrology to Astronomy. C. Sulpicius
Galus (cos. 166 BC), Greek wisdom, andCicerosDe Republica 13:00
14:00Lunch 14:00 14:40 Session 6Chair:Philip Bosman 14:00 14:40
Esther Eidinow (Nottingham),Do You Feel Lucky? Explanations of
Oracular Failure 15:15 17:00Bus trip around Pretoria 18:30 22:00
Conference Dinner Friday,July 31st 09:30 10:10Session
7Chair:Richard Evans 09:30 10:10Folake Onayemi (Ibadan),A Yoruba
adaptation of Greek Drama 10:15 10:45Refreshments 10:50
12:30Session 8Chair:John Hilton 10:50 11:15Katherine East (Royal
Holloway), Deconstructing Divination: Superstition,
Anticlericalism, and Ciceros De Divinatione in Enlightenment
England 11:15 11:40David Bullen (Royal Holloway),Putting Words in
the Mouth of God: Re-imagining Dionysuss Prophecies in 21st Century
Interpretations ofEuripidess Bacchae 11:40 12:05Sophia Taborski
(Pittsburgh), Not Just for the Birds: Augury in Archaic Athenian
Vase-Painting 12:30 13:30Lunch 13:30 14:00 Session 9Chair:Jeffrey
Murray 13:30 14:00Daniel Crosby(Fresno Pacific), Arrows Fletched
From Our Own Wings: The Early Church Fathers and the Delphi of the
Mind 14.00 14:30John Hilton (KwaZulu-Natal),The Witch of En-Dor and
Necromancy at Bessa in Heliodorus Aithiopika 6.12-15 14.30
15:00Olivier Dufault (Munich/California),The professionalization of
Greek curse writing in late antiquity 15:00 15:30Tea & Coffee
15:30 16:15 Session 10Chair: Esther Eidinow 15:30 16:15Jon Solomon
(Illinois, Urbana-Champaign),Filming the Insights of the Sightless:
The Reemergence of Teiresias in the 1990s 16:00Tea & Coffee
18:00 21:00Dinner
Sat urday,August 1st 05:30 17:00Pilanesberg Nature Reserve
Safari (Lunch at Bakabung Lodge)18:00Restaurant
