All are welcome to join for a seminar this term on early Latin poetry and its reception, which will feature a combination of talks by invited speakers and 20-minute presentations by postgraduate students exploring a wide variety of early Latin authors and genres. Please note that the seminar will take place in the Corpus Christi seminar room every week of term except for Week 2, when it will be held in the Ioannou Centre lecture theatre. The seminar will be available in a hybrid format; to receive a Zoom link, please fill out the form found here.
Week 1 (April 26th)
Ben Broadbent (Oxford) on the fragments of Livius Andronicus’ Odusia
Olivia Elder (Oxford): ‘Politics by the book: the political reception of literature in Republican Rome'
Week 2 (May 3rd) - in Ioannou Centre
Milly Cox (Oxford) on the fragments of Pacuvius’ Niptra
Barnaby Taylor (Oxford): ‘Cicero, Tusculans II: Pain, poetry, Pacuvius’
Week 3 (May 10th)
James Clark (Oxford) on Lucilius 567-73, 805-11 and 1145-51 (Warmington)
Llewelyn Morgan (Oxford): ‘A comparatively neglected Horatian satire: can Lucilius explain why it has been, and why it shouldn’t be?’
Week 4 (May 17th)
Sarah Marshall (Oxford) on the fragments of Ennius’ Medea
Elena Giusti (Warwick): ‘aut ex uno plures aut ex pluribus unum: Ennius’ imagined Romanitas’
Week 5 (May 24th)
Vincent Graf (Leipzig) on the early Latin comic fragments
Melina McClure (Oxford): ‘Embedded Verse in Ennius, Plautus, and Terence’
Week 6 (May 31st):
Tom Lister (Oxford): ‘The Sound of Silence(d) or Naevius’ Recursive Lupus’
Jackie Elliott (University of Colorado, Boulder): ‘Sic tamquam opus aliquod Daedali: the reception of pre-Ennian epic in antiquity’
Week 7 (June 7th):
Ludovico Oddi (Oxford): ‘Characters’ linguistic stylisation in the direct speech of the Annals’
Alessandro Barchiesi (NYU): 'Ennius and the dark Virgin'
Week 8 (June 14th):
Max Hardy (Oxford) on Ennius’ praetexta Ambracia
Stefano Rebeggiani (USC): The Three Towers: reading Ennius’ Annals 15 with Virgil and the later epic tradition