Name: Greek and Roman Tragedy in Flavian Epic Poetry - Exploring Intersections, Influences and Adaptations through Literature and Material Culture
Start: 2024-09-19T08:30:00+03:00
End: 2024-09-21T17:00:00+03:00
Location: Academy of Athens & National and Kapodistrian University

Greek and Roman Tragedy in Flavian Epic Poetry - Exploring Intersections, Influences and Adaptations through Literature and Material Culture

from Thursday, September 19, 2024 (8:30 AM) to Saturday, September 21, 2024 (5:00 PM)

Monday, September 16, 2024
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Thursday, September 19, 2024

9:00 AM Registration - Welcome Coffee & Biscuits
Registration - Welcome Coffee & Biscuits
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM

9:15 AM Opening Ceremony
Opening Ceremony
9:15 AM - 9:30 AM
9:30 AM PANEL 1
PANEL 1
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Contributions

9:30 AM Ruth PARKES Incorporating the tragic in the epics of Statius

10:00 AM Bernhard SOLLRADL Looking back/moving forward: ‘tragic’ prologues in Statius’ Thebaid

10:30 AM Georgia FERENTINOU Senecan Poetics and Dramatic time in the Proem of Statius’ Thebaid
11:00 AM BREAK
BREAK
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Academy of Athens & A. Argyriadis
11:30 AM PANEL 2
PANEL 2
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

11:30 AM Lorenzo VESPOLI Nec fata traham natumque videbo / te sine. Tragic models in the death scene of Jason’s family (Val. Fl. 1.752–826)

12:00 PM Patrick KUNZENDORF Ending with a bang – the spectacular deaths of Statius’ Seven in light of theatre influenced reception habits in Flavian times

12:30 PM Francesca ECONIMO Tragedy in Nemea: Reading the Death of Opheltes and Maternal Grief in Statius’ Thebaid through Seneca’s Troades
1:00 PM LUNCH BREAK
LUNCH BREAK
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Academy of Athens & A. Argyriadis
2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Academy of Athens & A. Argyriadis
Contributions

2:30 PM Alison KEITH Tragic Intertexts (and Ovidian Interference) in Statius’ Theban Necromancy (Theb. 4.419–645)

3:00 PM Andrew ZISSOS Chorality in the Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus

3:30 PM William DOMINIK Echoes of Senecan Tragedy in Silius Italicus’ Punica
4:00 PM KEYNOTE SPEAKER Federica BESSONE Oedipus on the Thebaid’s stage
KEYNOTE SPEAKER Federica BESSONE Oedipus on the Thebaid’s stage
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Academy of Athens & A. Argyriadis
Friday, September 20, 2024
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Stefano BRIGUGLIO All That Remains: Statius’ Thebaid and the Tragedies of Accius

9:30 AM Kostas ARAMPAPASLIS Reading Sophocles through Accius: Two cases of Statian intertextuality

10:00 AM Diana LIBRANDI Prometheus Tragicus in Valerius Flaccus’s Argonautica

10:30 AM Esther MEIJER The Rumblings of Republican Tragedy in Flavian Epic
11:00 AM BREAK
BREAK
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
11:30 AM
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Contributions

11:30 AM Ray MARKS Hannibal and the Furies in Silius Italicus’ Punica

12:00 PM Elaine SANDERSON Missing Madness? Hercules and Hercules Furens in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica

12:30 PM Francesco CANNIZZARO A “Senecan dyad” in Silius: echoes of Thyestes and Hercules Furens in Punica 1-2

1:00 PM Neil BERNSTEIN Tragic passion and restraint in Silius Italicus’ Punica
1:30 PM LUNCH BREAK
LUNCH BREAK
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: A. Argyriadis
Contributions

2:30 PM Helen LOVATT (Don’t) Eat the Rich: Disnarration, Power and Consumption in Seneca, Lucan and Statius

3:00 PM Alexis WHALEN-MUSE Quid Pandioniae restant? Tereus, Procne, and Philomela in Statius’ Thebaid”

3:30 PM Lorenzo COLLE A Problematic Replacement: Hercules as Alter Iuppiter in (Pseudo)Senecan Hercules Oetaeus
4:00 PM BREAK
BREAK
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Academy of Athens & A. Argyriadis
4:30 PM
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM Marco FUCECCHI The hero’s (disputed) legacy: armorum iudicium and its transformation in Flavian epic poetry

5:00 PM Ana LÓIO Tragic Viriathus? Silius’ Narrative of the Lusitanian War between Tragedy and Historiography

5:30 PM Clara NUSSLEIN Didactic Tragedy. Tragic Figures in Silius Italicus’ Punica as Warning exempla for Domitian

6:00 PM Dalida AGRI Echoes of Tragedy in the Punica: The Battles of Lake Trasimene and Cannae.
Saturday, September 21, 2024

9:00 AM KEYNOTE SPEAKER Antony AUGOUSTAKIS Ceu nova tunc clades: Statius’ Hypsipyle and Greek Tragedy (Keynote)
KEYNOTE SPEAKER Antony AUGOUSTAKIS Ceu nova tunc clades: Statius’ Hypsipyle and Greek Tragedy (Keynote)
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
10:00 AM
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Contributions

10:00 AM Claire STOCKS Domitian’s Tragic Farce: Staging theatre in Flavian Rome

10:30 AM Madeline Marie THAYER Seneca’s Argonautic Tragedy in Statius’ Achilleid
11:00 AM COFFEE BREAK
COFFEE BREAK
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
11:30 AM
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

11:30 AM Cecilia CRIADO Statius and the Tragic Rhetoric of Incest

12:00 PM Alice HU Curious alchemy: rape as foundation myth in Euripides’ Ion and Statius’s Thebaid

12:30 PM Jean-Michel HULLS Ecce iterum soror! Re-reading Statius’ Antigone
1:00 PM

1:00 PM - 1:30 PM