Augustan Poetry: epic, elegy and metapoetics
Saturday, 5 May 2007
Durham University
Department of Classics & Ancient History/ Ritson Room
38 North Bailey
Durham
DH1 3EU
10.30: Ingo Gildenhard: Welcome and introduction
11.00: Peter Heslin: Hylas descending: Propertius 1.20 as allegory
12.00: Roy Gibson (Manchester): Aristocrats, equestrians, and the ethos of Roman love elegy
Lunch break
14.00: Anne Rogerson (Cambridge): Learning to be a man in Virgil's Aeneid
15.00: Andrew Zissos (University of California/ Irvine): Ovid’s Medea: tragic deviations
Coffee break
16.30: Ingo Gildenhard: Metapoetry and/in Ovid
17.30: Jennifer Ingleheart: Exegi monumentum: death, exile and poetic immortality in Ovid, Tristia 3.3
For further information, please contact Ingo Gildenhard at
ingo.gildenhard AT dur.ac.uk.