A: LITERATURE
Seminars will be at 17:15 on Wednesdays via Zoom. All are welcome.
The Zoom link will be uploaded to the Seminar Moodle page an hour prior to the seminar. If you do not have access to Moodle please contact Tim Whitmarsh (tjgw100) or Rebecca Laemmle (rl545).
Lent Term 2021
27 January Yelena Baraz (Princeton University), Lucan’s Cicero:
Dismembering a Legend
3 February Ingo Gildenhard (University of Cambridge), Cicero’s Pro
Marcello - contexts, text, intertexts
10 February Cynthia Damon (University of Pennsylvania), Quod vix
credibile: On parentheses in Tacitus
17 February Elena Giusti (University of Warwick), Rome's imagined
Africa and the limits of fiction
24 February Albert Bates (University of Cambridge), Ekphrasis and
Epistemological Skepticism in Philostratus' Imagines
Nir Stern (University of Cambridge), Dio Chrysostom and
the failure of past philosophers
3 March Christina Kraus (Yale University), Going in circles:
Digressive behavior in Caesar, BC 2
10 March No seminar (JH Gray Lectures)
17 March Marcus Ellis (University of Cambridge), Flights of Fancy:
Cosmology and Aesthetics in the Third Stasimon of
Euripides’ Orestes
Nathaniel Hess (University of Cambridge), Transmarine
delights: verse translation in the 15th Century
