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Iambus and Elegy Conference, 11th-13th July 2012
Full conference programme and registration information
The study of Greek elegy and iambus has been transformed in recent years by new papyrological finds, most notably the new Simonides elegy in 1992 and the new Archilochus elegy in 2005, while scholarship on early Greek poetry has made significant methodological advances over recent decades. Yet iambus and elegy have historically been sidelined as the lesser cousins of Greek lyric, while the impact of papyrological discoveries has not always been made apparent to those without the technical expertise to work directly on the texts. This international conference will be the first meeting to focus exclusively on iambus and elegy. Our aim is to foreground these metres as poetic forms in their own right, to explore what is distinctive about them, and to showcase recent research in this area.
Information about how to register for the conference can be found on our website at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/classics/news-and-events/iambus-and-elegy. The full programme is listed below. For more information, please contact l.swift AT ucl.ac.uk, or iambusandelegy AT gmail.com.
The conference organisers gratefully acknowledge the support of the Hellenic Society, the Leverhulme Trust, UCL FIGS, and UCL Greek and Latin Alumni.
Wednesday 11th July
5-6pm Opening keynote paper: ‘Iambos in the ancient historiography of literature’, Andrea Rotstein, Tel Aviv University
Thursday 12th July
Session 1: Elegiac performance
9.30-10.10 ‘Possible ritual contexts for the performance of early narrative elegy’, Ewen Bowie, University of Oxford
10.10-10.50 ‘Choral Elegy’, Cecilia Nobili, University of Milan
10.50-11.20 Coffee
11.20-12.00 ‘Anacreon and the elegiac symposium’, Elizabeth Jones, Stanford University
12.00-12.40 ‘Simonides and the elegy’, David Sider, New York University
Session 2: Voice and author in iambos
12.40-1.20 ‘Archilochean performance and the iambic poet-persona’, Don Lavigne, Texas Tech University
1.20-2.20 Lunch
2.20-3.00 ‘Archilochean imagery and poetic topoi’, Laura Swift, UCL/Open University
3.00-3.40 ‘Mythic narratives in Hipponax: the case of Heracles’, Margarita Alexandrou, UCL
3.40-4.20 ‘Overheard Iambics: Listening to Hipponax’, Deborah Boedeker, Brown University
4.20-4.50 Coffee
Session 3: Text and transmission
4.50-5.30 ‘Archilochus’ elegiac fragments: textual and exegetical notes’, Anika Nicolosi, University of Parma
5.30-6.10 ‘Writing Solon’, Antonio Aloni, University of Torino, and Alessandro Iannucci, University of Bologna
Friday 13th July
Session 4: Iambic interactions
9.00-9.40 ‘Toward a philosophy of parody: iambos and visual art’ Tom Hawkins, Ohio State University
9.40-10.20 ‘Iambos iatrikos: therapy and the ego in Archilochus’ elegies and iamboi’, Julia Nelson Hawkins, Ohio State University
Session 5: Elegy and epic
10.20-11.00 ‘Elegy and epic: a complex relationship’, Laura Lulli, University of L’Aquila
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-12.10 ‘Hesiod and elegy’, Richard Hunter, Cambridge University
Session 6: Classical intertexts
12.10-12.50 ‘Warding off a hailstorm of blood: Pindar on martial elegy’, Christopher Brown, University of Western Ontario
12.50-1.30 ‘Euenus’ “ship of fools” (8b, Theog. 667-82)’, Paula Correa, University of Sao Paolo
1.30-2.30 Lunch
Session 7: Hellenistic echoes
2.30-3.10 ‘Callimachus between elegy and iambus’, Giambattista D’Alessio, KCL
3.10-3.50 ‘What is iambic about Hellenistic literary epigrams?’, Maria Kanellou, UCL
3.50-4.20 Coffee
Session 8: Beyond the canon
4.20-5.00 ‘Tetrameters from Teos: Scythinus on Heraclitus and Apollo’, Tim Power, Rutgers
5.00-5.40 ‘Mapping iambos: mining the minor talents’, Chris Carey, UCL
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