CONF: Institute of Classical Studies Greek Literature Seminar– Autumn 2009

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INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL STUDIES

GREEK LITERATURE SEMINAR

Mondays throughout the autumn term at 5 pm
Senate House South Block Room ground floor room G37
Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Organizer: Giambattista D’Alessio
Contact: giambattista.d’alessio AT kcl.ac.uk

PROGRAMME AUTUMN 2009

BEYOND THE LIBRARY: HELLENISTIC LITERATURE AND ITS CONTEXTS

5 October
M. Fantuzzi (Columbia University)
“The Epithalamium of Achilles and Deidameia”

12 October
G. Hutchinson (Oxford)
“Apollonius, space, and text world theory”

19 October
R. Hunter (Cambridge)
“Callimachus’ Gods”

26 October
B. Acosta-Hughes (Ohio State University)
“Songs for a queen: on celebrating women of power”

2 November
A. Chaniotis (Oxford)
“Theatricality and Illusion: What is Hellenistic in Hellenistic historiography?”

9 November: Reading Week

16 November
G. Massimilla (Naples)
“Practical skills, work, and money in the epigrams ascribed to Theocritus”

23 November
P.J. Parsons (Oxford)
“Callimachus and his koinai”

30 November
S. Hornblower (UCL)
“Lykophron’s Alexandra and another hellenistic Kassandra-poem (Coll. Alex. pp. 188ff.)”

7 December
S. Stephens (Stanford)
“Writing the (Common)place: Callimachus’ ideologically charged geographies”

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