Tombs of the Poets: Between Text and Material Culture
An international conference to be held at Durham University
12th-14th September 2014, Ritson Room, Department of Classics and Ancient History, 38 North Bailey
Organisers: Nora Goldschmidt, Barbara Graziosi, and Erika Taretto
Friday 12th September 2014
- 14:15: Registration
- 14:45-15:00: Introduction
- 15:00-15:45 Ahuvia Kahane and Andrew Laird, ‘Dead Letters and Buried Meaning: The Tombs of Virgil and Homer’
- 15:45-16:30: Flore Kimmel-Clauzet, ‘Poets’ Tombs and Conceptions of Poetry in Ancient Greece’
- 16:30-17:00: Coffee break
- 17:00-17:45: Emmanuela Bakola, ‘Aeschylus, Earth and Tomb-cult: A Posthumous Re-appraisal’
- 17:45-18:30: Natasha Bershadsky, ‘Visiting Hesiod's Tomb with Euphorion of Chalcis’
- 19:30: Dinner for speakers
Saturday 13th September 2014
- 09:30-10:15: Richard Rawles, ‘Simonides on Tombs, and the Tomb of Simonides’
- 10:15-11:00: Silvia Montiglio, ‘Impermanent Stones, Permanent Plants: Tombs of Poets as Material Objects in the Palatine Anthology’
- 11:00-11:15: Coffee break
- 11:15-12:00: Regina Hoeschele, ‘Weaving Tombs into a Garland: Epitaphs of Poets in Philip's Stephanos’
- 12:00 -12:45: Peter Bing, ‘Tombs of the Poets' Minor Characters’
- 12:45-14:00: Lunch
- 14:00-14:45: Valentina Garulli, ‘A Portrait of the Poet as a Young Man: The Tomb of Quintus Sulpicius Maximus on the Via Salaria’
- 14:45-15:30: Gianfranco Agosti, ‘Paideias eneken: Funerary Inscription of Poets in Late Antiquity’
- 15:30-16:00: Coffee break
- 16:00-16:45: Martin Dinter, ‘Hic Situs est…': Lucan’s Poetics of Tomblessness’
- 16:45-17:15: Annalisa Cipollone, ‘Tombs of Poets in Pre-humanistic Italy’
- 17:15-18:00: Paola Bassino and Peter Fane-Saunders, ‘Ad ipsa Homerica loca: The Journey of Ciriaco d’Ancona to the Tomb of the Epic Poet’
- 19:30: Dinner for speakers
Sunday 14th September 2014
- 9:30-10:15: Giovanni Salmeri and Antonio Tempio, ‘Stesichoros’ Tomb’
- 10:15-11:00: Harald Hendrix, ‘Virgil's Tomb in Scholarly and Popular Culture’
- 11:00-11:45: Sam Smiles, ‘Ruins and Reputations: The Tomb of the Poet in Visual Art’
- Closing remarks
For registration information, please contact Erika Taretto (erika.taretto@durham.ac.uk)
