Tombs of the Poets Programme

Organisers: Nora Goldschmidt, Barbara Graziosi, and Erika Taretto

Call for Papers

Friday 12th September 2014

• 14:30: Registration
• 14:45-15:00: Introduction
• 15:00-15:45 (Ahuvia Kahane and Andrew Laird) Title TBA
• 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) Title TBA
• 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: (Antonio Tempio and Giovanni Salmeri) ‘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)