Cambridge, 18–20 July, 2022
Faculty of Classics | Sidgwick Avenue | Cambridge CB3 9DA
Organizers: Stephen Oakley and Alessandro Schiesaro
MONDAY JULY 18
SESSION 1: 14.00–18.10 | Chairs: Stephen Oakley and Emily Gowers
14.00 Opening remarks
14.20 Alessandro Barchiesi (NYU), Looking for Alexandra in the Aeneid
15.00 Ingo Gildenhard (Cambridge), Epic justice
15.40 Joseph Farrell (Penn), Vergil’s Iopas
16.20 Coffee break
16.50 Elena Giusti (Warwick), The serpent and the dove: gender and parenthood in Aeneid 5
17.30 Sergio Casali (Roma Tor Vergata), Chronology and simultaneity in Aeneid 8–10
18.10 Reception in the Museum of Classical Archaeology
TUESDAY 19 JULY
SESSION 2: 9.20–12.30 | Chair: Richard Hunter and Monica Gale
9.20 Stephen Oakley (Cambridge), Ascanius and the exemplum domesticum
10.00 George Kazantzidis (Patras), Virgil and tragedy: Sophocles' Trachiniae and the end of Georgics 3
10.40 Coffee break
11.10 Fiachra Mac Góráin (UCL), Virgilius superat Calabrum: La Cerda on the 'imitation' of Quintus of Smyrna in the Aeneid
11.50 Gail Trimble (Oxford), Aeneas, Dido, Catullus, and Petrarch
SESSION 3: 15.00–18.10 | Chair: Stephen Heyworth and Gregory Hutchinson
15.00 Aaron Kachuck (Louvain), Horace’s myrtle crown and the poet’s bloodless triumphs
15.40 Stephen Hinds (Washington), Ausonian macaronics
16.20 Coffee break
16.50 Alessandro Schiesaro (SNS), Ovid and the absent presence of stone
17.30 Stuart Gillespie (Glasgow), Parallel Text Translations
WEDNESDAY 20 JULY
SESSION 3: 9.20 - 12.30 | Chairs: Helen Lovatt and Alessandro Schiesaro
9.20 Stephen Harrison (Oxford), Vergilian divine machinery in Thomas Campion’s De Pulverea Coniuratione
10.00 Yasmin Haskell (Western Australia), Last of the Jesuit Anti-Lucretians: Abad, Wilczek, Desbillons and Pons on God, grace and gravity
10.40 Coffee break
11.10 Maya Feile Tomes (Cambridge), Transatlantic Ovid and the curious case of Clarinda
11.50 Helen Lovatt (Nottingham), Writing back to past selves through Virgilian reception in Ursula Le Guin and Lois McMaster Bujold