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Faculty of Classics

 

A: LITERATURE

Seminars are held on Wednesdays, 17.15–18.45, in room G.21.

 

LENT TERM 2024

24 January: Tom Baarda, ‘Poet of Empire: Using Imperial Spoils in Catullus 10’ / Bill Freeman, ‘Snake Farmer: Beyond Nature and Culture in the Lair of the Theban Serpent (Ov. Met. 3.28–94)

1 February (n.b. Thursday): Jessi Glueck, ‘‘The Feminine of Cicero: Anthony Trollope’s Classical Critique of Victorian Masculinity’ / Connor Wood ‘Inspired, Epistemic, and Mimetic: Homer and Hesiod in Neoplatonist Literary Theory’

7 February: John Moss, ‘Caveman’ / Tim Roe ‘Pindar’s Normative Deixis

14 February: Kirsten Parkin, ‘Remembering the Past and Forgetting the Present in ps.-Quintilian’s Minor Declamations’ / Josey Parker, ‘Hei mihi non possum hoc sine lachrymis commemorare: The Spread of Corrupt Classical Quotations in Renaissance Latin Dictionaries and Grammars’

21 February: Alison Sharrock, ‘Fire and Flood: Environmental Disaster (and Hope?) in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

28 February: Frances Myatt, ‘Self and (M)other in the Poetry of Ovid’ / Niki Meimaroglou, ‘Grave Thoughts About the Greek Novel: Death in Chariton’s Callirhoe

6 March: Nora Goldschmidt, ‘Fragmentary Modernism’

13 March: Beppe Pezzini, ‘Praetexit nomine: Virgil and Republican Comedy’

 

 

 

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