Greek Literature and its Critics
A Conference for Richard Hunter’s 70th Birthday Year
Room G21, Faculty of Classics
7th December
14.50 Martine Cuypers, ‘All the Birds: Apollonius, Zenodotus, and the Proem of the Iliad’
15.40 Deborah Steiner, ‘“And all the King's Men”: Cross-speciation, the Minotaur, and Thinking about Hybrids in Seneca's Phaedra and its Greek Scientific and Artistic Predecessors’
16.30 Coffee break
17.00 Stephen Halliwell, ‘“Hunters and Gatherers of Values”: Some Reflections on Critics Ancient and Modern’
18.00 Drinks
8th December
9.30 Andrew Ford, ‘The longue durée of Ancient Literary Criticism’
10.20 Johanna Hanink, ‘Polemon the Sophist and the Magnetism of Athenian Literature’
11.10 Coffee
11.30 Oliver Taplin, ‘Clytemnestra’s Hands’
12.20 Casper de Jonge, ‘Self-Exemplification in Ancient Literary Criticism: Theory and Practice in Dionysius, Quintilian, and Pseudo-Longinus’
13.10 lunch
14.00 Rebecca Laemmle, ‘The Sacrifice on Thrinacia in Odyssey 12’
14.50 Patricia Rosenmeyer, ‘Nearchos Navigates the Nile: P. Lond. III 854’
15.40 coffee
16.00 Oliver Thomas, ‘Enormous Fools or Intellectual Giants: Readings of Otus and Ephialtes’
16.50 Jackie Murray, ‘Becoming Callimachus’ Ibis: Apollonius, Callimachus, and the Poetics of Controversy’
9th December
9.30 Coffee
10.00 Emily Kneebone, ‘The Responsive Earth in Imperial Greek Epic’
10.50 Peter Wilson, ‘Pindar of Thebes and the 470s: The Awkward Years?’
11.40 Closing words
12.15 lunch
For registration details please write to tjgw100@cam.ac.uk