The Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies is hosting a symposium honoring our founding director, Stephen V. Tracy, Steve was the driving force behind the establishment of the Center and was a true mentor to his younger colleagues in their formative years. We hope you will be able to join us.
November 18, 2022 – Barbie Tootle Room, The Ohio Union, 1739 N. High Street
9:30 am-10:00 am: Coffee, bagels, pastries, etc.
10:00 am-10:10 am: Greeting from Frank Coulson (Director of Palaeography, Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies)
Greeting from Dean Dana Renga (Dean of Arts and Humanities)
Opening Remarks from Fritz Graf (Director Emeritus of Epigraphy, Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies)
10:10 am-11:30 am: Session I
Moderator: Steve Tuck (Miami University)
Fritz Graf (Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies, The Ohio State University)
A Prayer for Healing from Athens (IG II2 4514)
Colleen Kron (The Ohio State University and Stockholm University)
How to set your son among the stars: affording belief in the transformation of Eutyches, son of Eutyches
Paul Iversen (Case Western Reserve University)
The Front Cover Inscription of the Antikythera Mechanism: A New Text
11:30 am-12:00 pm: Break
12:00 pm-1:00 pm: Session II
Moderator: Harald Anderson (George Washington University School of Business)
Frank Coulson (Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies, The Ohio State University)
The Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum and the Center
William Little (Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies, The Ohio State University)
Piecing Together Domizio Calderini’s Commentary on the Aeneid
1:00 pm-2:30 pm: Lunch
2:30 pm-3:30 pm: Session III
Moderator: Michael Meckler (Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies, The Ohio State University)
Paula Perlman (The University of Texas at Austin)
Ancient Copies, 19th-Century Facsimile Drawings, and Restoring Texts: Two Case Studies from Crete
Steven Tuck (Miami University)
Escape from Pompeii: epigraphy and the search for Vesuvian survivors
3:30 pm-4:00 pm: Break
4:00 pm-5:00 pm: Plenary Lecture
Introduction: Gaia Gianni (The Ohio State University)
John Bodel (W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of Classics, Professor of History, Director of Early Cultures, Brown University)
Wandering Stones: Inscriptions and Collectors in the USA
5:00 pm-6:30 pm: Reception
