International Colloquium
Intratextuality and Intertextuality in Seneca’s Naturales Quaestiones
28-29 March 2025
Venue: Swedish Institute at Athens (SIA) (Mitseon 9, 11742, Athens)
Organizers: Myrto Garani (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Sophia Papaioannou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
with the kind support of the Department of Philology (NKUA)
The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Swedish Institute at Athens (SIA)
The PLuS Foundation
Friday, March 28th
9.00-9.30: Registration
9.30-10.00: Welcome remarks
10.00-11.00: Session 1
Chair: Sophia Papaioannou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
10.00-10.30: Daniel Markovich (University of Cincinnati):
“The form of thesis and Seneca’s Naturales quaestiones.”
10.30-11.00: Barnaby Taylor (University of Oxford):
“Senecan humour and humility”
11.00-11.30: Coffee break
11.30-12.30: Session 2
Chair: Philip Mitsis (New York University)
11.30-12.00: Elena Giusti (University of Cambridge):
“Seneca’s Aethiopia and the Empire’s Last Threshold.”
12.00-12.30: Margaret Graver (Dartmouth College):
“Once again, why physics? Figures of the βίος θεωρητικός in the Quaestiones Naturales and Epistulae Morales”.
12.30-14.30: Lunch break
14.30-15.30: Session 3
Chair: Vaios Vaiopoulos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
14.30-15.00: Chiara Graf (University of Maryland):
“Seneca’s Liquid Quotations: Reflections on Self and Other in the Natural Questions.”
15.00-15.30: Catharine Edwards (University of London):
“Beyond the Scipionic circle: Seneca, Scipio and Cicero in the NQ.”
15.30-16.00: Coffee break
16.00-17.00: Session 4
Chair: Attila Németh (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy)
16.00-16.30: Myrto Garani (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens):
“Earth-shaking truths: Who are the philosophers who fall for the earthquake-free Delos? (Seneca, QNat. 6.26).”
16.30-17.00: Christopher Trinacty (Oberlin College):
“Imagination and Explanation: Sen. NQ 7.10 and Ovid Met. 2.70-78.”
20.30: Conference Dinner (By invitation, Kostis Palamas Building)
Saturday, March 29th
10.00-11.00: Session 5
Chair: Andreas Michalopoulos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
10.00-10.30: Fabio Tutrone (University of Palermo):
“Nero, Lucretius, and Seneca’s Rainbow: On the Neronian Intertextuality of QNat. 1.5.6.”
10.30-11.00: Francesca Romana Berno (La Sapienza, Rome):
“Self-Reflections: Philosophical Use of Mirror in Seneca NQ 1.17 and Phaedrus 3.8.”
11.00-11.30: Coffee break
11.30-12.30: Session 6
Chair: Sophia Papaioannou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
11.30-12.00: George Prekas (University College Dublin):
“God through his Myriad Stars: the Celestial and the Divine in Seneca’s Naturales Quaestiones and Manilius’ Astronomica.”
12.00-12.30: Round table: conclusions
For enquiries, please contact: mgarani@phil.uoa.gr
