From Life to Literature?
Genre and Performance in Hellenistic and Roman Literature
Conference Date: April 27, 2024
Conference Schedule:
Session I: 10:00 am – 11:45 am
Christine Ascik Sanders (Catholic University of America)
“Bion 1 and the Tragic Lament”
Emilia Herok (Jagiellonian University)
“Between Learnedness and Performance: Catullus and the Tradition of Iambic Poetry”
Lunch break: 11:45 am – 1:15 pm
Session II: 1:15 pm- 2:20 pm
Mac Carley (Brown University)
“Roman Crepidata Tragedy and the Politics of Spectatorship”
Robert Ward (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
“Horace’s Pindaric Voice – Pindar fr.123 and Odes 4.1”
Short break
Keynote: 2:30 pm
Richard Hunter (Cambridge University, Emeritus Regius Professor of Greek)
“Performing Genre? from Homer to Horace”