Faculty of Classics - University of Cambridge

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Literature

The Seminar meets on Wednesdays, 5.15 pm to 6.45 pm in Room 1.04, Faculty of Classics.

23rd January

Francesca Martelli: Writing the addressee (writing Cicero): Fam. 15.1-6 and 9.1-6 between life and letters.

30th January

Raymond Geuss: Pindar and Bernard Williams.

6th February

Ruth Caston (University of Michigan): Re-invention in Terence's Eunuch

13th February

Lucia Prauscello: Citizenship, desire and intention in Plato's Laws

20th February

Nick Lowe (Royal Holloway): Euripides' Library

27th February

Elena Theodorakopoulos (Birmingham): Writing and performance in Catullus

6th March

Felix Budelmann (Magdalen College, Oxford): Sappho fr. 44

13th March

Steven Green (Leeds): Vitruvius, gateway to the imperial stars: the politics of astrological discourse under Augustus

Michaelmas Term 2012 Programme: Ancient Receptions of Homer

10th October

Oliver Taplin (Oxford), 'Tragedy's Pitch to Rival Homer'

17th October

Anna Uhlig, 'A Voice from the Past: Homer in Pindar and Aeschylus'

24th October

David Butterfield, '"Homer" in "Lucretius"'

31st October

Ioannis Lambrou (UCL), 'The Epic Cycle and the Early Reception of Homer'

7th November

14th November

Fiachra MacGóráin (UCL), 'The Politics of Appropriation: Levels of Authority in Virgil's Rewriting of Homer'

21st November

Helen Lovatt (Nottingham), 'The Glitz of a New War: Going back to Homer in Statius Thebaid 7 and 8' 

28th November

Calum Maciver (Edinburgh), 'The Voice of Dissent in Triphiodorus' Sack of Troy'