A Caucus Michaelmas 2023 - the value(s) of close reading
Seminars are held on Wednesdays, 5.15-6.45pm, during Full Term in room G21
11 October, Constanze Güthenke: Hermes, Close Reader
18 October, Elena Giusti: Horace's Poetics of Conspiracy
25 October, Bruno Currie: Close reading and the principle of Ἡσίοδον ἐξ Ἡσιόδου σαφηνίζειν: Works and Days 90–105 and 202–12
1 November, Jenny Strauss Clay: Gods and men in Odyssey 5
8 November, David Butterfield: Texts and problems
15 November, Ahuvia Kahane: The Horizons of Close Reading: Repetition and Promiscuous Form in Ancient Epic and the Ancient Novel
22 November, Lyndsay Coo: Reading tragic fragments, loosely
29 November, Victoria Rimell: Close Reading and the Hermeneutics of Mourning