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.