The Heinrich Schliemann-Institut fuer Altertumswissenschaften,
University of Rostock (Germany),
is pleased to announce the following conference:

LUCANS BELLUM CIVILE - zwischen epischer Tradition und aesthetischer
Innovation
University of Rostock, Germany
28-30 June, 2007

Conference Programme:

THURSDAY, 28 June 2007
Heinrich Schliemann-Institut, Schwaansche Strasse 3, 18051 Rostock

19.00 Opening

19.15 Elaine Fantham / Princeton
Tanta est discordia fratrum. Four aspects of Lucan's presentation of civil
war

20.30 Reception


FRIDAY, 29 June 2007
Internationales Begegnungszentrum, Bergstrasse 7, 18057 Rostock

08.30 Claudia Wiener / Muenchen
Entscheidungsfreiheit zum Verbrechen: der Buergerkrieg als Schicksal

09.30 Lisa Sannicandro / Padova
Ut generos soceris mediae iunxere Sabinae. Die Gestalt der Julia in Lukans
Pharsalia

10.30 Coffee

11.00 Annemarie Ambuehl / Groningen
Lucan's 'Iliupersis': Narrative Patterns of the Fallen City in Book 2 of
the Bellum Civile

12.00 Lunch

14.00 Christine Walde / Mainz
Auf dem Weg zu einem Lucan-Gesamtkommentar

15.00 Martin Dinter / Exeter
And yet it moves - the automatism of the cut off body part

16.00 Tea

16.30 Claudia Wick / Muenchen
Unanschauliche Beschreibungen: Lukans plus quam visibilia

17.30 Dunstan Lowe / Reading
Medusa and Antaeus in Lucan

18.30 Nicola Hoemke / Rostock
Pereuntis parcere morti. Der Sterbende in Lucans Bellum civile als
ästhetische Herausforderung

19.30 Discussion

20.00 Summer Party of the Heinrich Schliemann-Institut


SATURDAY, 30 June 2007
Excursion to Berlin, Pergamonmuseum

08.33 Departure Rostock HBF

11.45 Lorenz Winkler-Horacek / Rostock
Die Aesthetisierung des Monstroesen am Pergamonaltar



Full details are available on the conference website:
http://www.altertum.uni-rostock.de/aktuelles/single-view/article/2/lucans-bellu.html

For further information, please contact the conference organizers, Prof.
Dr. Christiane Reitz (christiane.reitz AT uni-rostock.de) or Dr. Nicola
Hoemke (nicola.hoemke AT uni-rostock.de).

No conference fee, guests are welcome.