CFP: Panel of the IPS at the Society for Classical Studies (Washington DC, Jan. 2-5, 2020)
Following is the call for papers for a panel organized by the USA section of the International Plutarch Society. The panel will be part of the annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies, January 2-5, 2020, in Washington, DC. Literary Banquets of the Imperial Era Sponsored by the International Plutarch Society. Organized by Jeffrey Beneker, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Zoe Stamatopoulou, Washington University in St. Louis. Though its origins date back to Classical Athens, sympotic literature was quite popular during the Roman imperial period and was produced by a diverse group of authors, including Plutarch, Athenaeus, Aulus Gellius, and Lucian, in both Greek and Latin. Several scholarly works published in the past decade, such as The Philosopher’s Banquet edited by F. Klotz and K. Oikonomopoulou (OUP 2011), J. König’s Saints and Symposiasts (CUP 2012), and Y. Scolan’s Le convive et le savant (Les ...