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Contests of Speech and Song in Greek and Latin Literature, St Anne’s College, Oxford, September 11-13, 2015

Call for Papers: Colleagues are invited to submit titles and brief abstracts of papers on the topic of contests of speech and song in Greek and Latin literature for a conference to be held at St Anne’s College, Oxford, on September 11-13, 2015.

Contests are a recurrent feature of ancient literature. Topics that we hope to cover include the Contest of Homer and Hesiod; the amoebean song contests of ancient bucolic; the contests between the Muses and the Pierides and Ajax and Ulixes in Ovid’s Metamorphoses; contests of speech in ancient rhetorical education; poetic contests and the poet’s career.

Papers should be 40-45 minutes in length and will be followed by questions and discussion.

All those interested in participating should write to celia.campbell AT st-annes.ox.ac.uk