Literature Seminar

A Caucus: Classical Literature

Michaelmas Term 2026

Meetings will take place on Wednesdays, 4.30-6pm, in room G.21. There is a (loose) theme for the term, 'Causes/reasons why'.

14 October Roy Gibson (Durham) 'Reasons why Latin epistulae are different from Greek'
followed by drinks in the Cast Gallery

21 October Frances Myatt (Cambridge) 'The birds and the bees: making babies and the law of nature in Ovid's poetry'

28 October Elena Giusti (Cambridge) 'Why make a list? Rome's African catalogues and their uniform variety'

4 November Emily Pillinger (KCL) 'Why does music give myth meaning? Reflections on using creative practice as research in "Penelope's Web"'

11 November Erik Pulz (Halle/Cambridge) 'Giving reasons without knowing why in Thucydides' pre-battle speeches'

18 November Ned McDougall (Cambridge) 'Countering causality in oracular poetry'

25 November Theodora Hadjimichael (Birmingham) 'Poikilia and the sociology of new music criticism'

2 December Fiachra Mac Góráin (KCL) 'The mysteries of Aeneid 6'