The UIC Department of Classics & Mediterranean Studies
presents an international conference:

Deus Praesens: Divine Epiphanies from Archaic Greece to the Christian Era

co-sponsored by: The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, The UIC Graduate College,
The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, The UIC Institute for the Humanities

Friday-Saturday 5-6 April 2002
Conference Room of Institute for the Humanities (Lower Level Stevenson Hall)

Session I : Greek Antiquity: from Archaic to Classical - Chair: John Ramsey

Albert Henrichs (Harvard): "Blurred Vision: The Trouble with 'Epiphany"

Chair: William Calder III

Fritz Graf (Princeton): "Collective Epiphanies: Trick or Treat?"
Nanno Marinatos (UIC): "Enargeia and Epiphany"
Anton Bierl (Leipzig, Germany): "Epiphanies in the Odyssey"
Greg Anderson (UIC): "Epiphany and the Phye Episode"
Kevin Clinton (Cornell): "Epiphany at the Eleusinian and Samothracian Mysteries"
Jorge Bravo (Berkeley): "Heroic Epiphanies: Narrative, Visual, and Cultic Contexts"


Session II: Roman Antiquity and the Early Christian Period - Chair: Paul Griffiths

Matthew Dickie (UIC): "Epiphanies in Lucian's ALEXANDER"
Einar Thomassen (Bergen, Norway): "The Presence of the Gnostic Revealer."
Alexander MacGregor (UIC): "Which Art in Heaven: the Celestial Sphere of Manilius"
Hans Dieter Betz (U. Chicago): "God Concept & Cultic Image: The Argument in Dio Chrysostom's Oratio XII (Olympikos)"

Discussion on Christian and Pagan epiphanies led by Margaret Mitchell (Divinity School, Univ. of Chicago)
and Hans-Joseph Klauck (Divinity School, Univ. of Chicago).