PROGRAMME INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ICS LONDON (Room 336)

"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