"ACTS OF CONSOLATION. APPROACHES TO GRIEF AND MOURNING IN ANTIQUITY"
Friday 14th December 2007
9.30–10.15: Registration 10.30–10.50: Dr. Han Baltussen, Welcome and Introduction. 10.55–11.50: Prof. David Scourfield, ‘The Genre(s) of Consolation’
MORNING TEA
12.10–1.00: Dr. Han Baltussen, ‘A Grief Observed: Cicero on Remembering Tullia’
LUNCH [not provided]
2.15– 3.00: Bart Van Wassenhove, ‘Shameful Grief. Emotional Rhetoric in Senecan Consolation’ 3.05– 4.00: Dr George Boys-Stones, ‘Night of the living Dead: Encouragement to Apollonius’
AFTERNOON TEA
4.25–5.15: Dr. Véronique Boudon-Millot: Galen’s peri alupias (paper in absentia)(English summary presented by HB).
Saturday 15th December 2007
10.00–11.00: Dr. Han Baltussen, ‘Plutarch’s Consolation to his Wife’ Respondent: Prof. Michael Trapp
MORNING TEA
11.20–12.20: Dr. Josef Lössl: ‘Continuity and Change in Augustine’
LUNCH [not provided]
2.00–2.50: Dr. Peter Adamson, ‘Al-Kindi’s On Dispelling Sorrow and its Use by Miskawayh’ 3.00–4.00: Panel Discussion. Concluding remarks
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