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, 19 September 2024 (08:30) to Saturday, 21 September 2024 (17:00)

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

09:00 Registration - Welcome Coffee & Biscuits
Registration - Welcome Coffee & Biscuits
09:00 - 09:15

09:15 Opening Ceremony
Opening Ceremony
09:15 - 09:30
09:30 PANEL 1
PANEL 1
09:30 - 11:00
Contributions

09:30 Ruth PARKES Incorporating the tragic in the epics of Statius

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

10:30 Georgia FERENTINOU Senecan Poetics and Dramatic time in the Proem of Statius’ Thebaid
11:00 BREAK
BREAK
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Academy of Athens & A. Argyriadis
11:30 PANEL 2
PANEL 2
11:30 - 13:00
Contributions

11:30 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 Patrick KUNZENDORF Ending with a bang – the spectacular deaths of Statius’ Seven in light of theatre influenced reception habits in Flavian times

12:30 Francesca ECONIMO Tragedy in Nemea: Reading the Death of Opheltes and Maternal Grief in Statius’ Thebaid through Seneca’s Troades
13:00 LUNCH BREAK
LUNCH BREAK
13:00 - 14:30
Room: Academy of Athens & A. Argyriadis
14:30
14:30 - 16:00
Room: Academy of Athens & A. Argyriadis
Contributions

14:30 Alison KEITH Tragic Intertexts (and Ovidian Interference) in Statius’ Theban Necromancy (Theb. 4.419–645)

15:00 Andrew ZISSOS Chorality in the Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus

15:30 William DOMINIK Echoes of Senecan Tragedy in Silius Italicus’ Punica
16:00 KEYNOTE SPEAKER Federica BESSONE Oedipus on the Thebaid’s stage
KEYNOTE SPEAKER Federica BESSONE Oedipus on the Thebaid’s stage
16:00 - 17:00
Room: Academy of Athens & A. Argyriadis
Friday, 20 September 2024
09:00
09:00 - 11:00
Contributions

09:00 Stefano BRIGUGLIO All That Remains: Statius’ Thebaid and the Tragedies of Accius

09:30 Kostas ARAMPAPASLIS Reading Sophocles through Accius: Two cases of Statian intertextuality

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

10:30 Esther MEIJER The Rumblings of Republican Tragedy in Flavian Epic
11:00 BREAK
BREAK
11:00 - 11:30
11:30
11:30 - 13:30
Contributions

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

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

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

13:00 Neil BERNSTEIN Tragic passion and restraint in Silius Italicus’ Punica
13:30 LUNCH BREAK
LUNCH BREAK
13:30 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 16:00
Room: A. Argyriadis
Contributions

14:30 Helen LOVATT (Don’t) Eat the Rich: Disnarration, Power and Consumption in Seneca, Lucan and Statius

15:00 Alexis WHALEN-MUSE Quid Pandioniae restant? Tereus, Procne, and Philomela in Statius’ Thebaid”

15:30 Lorenzo COLLE A Problematic Replacement: Hercules as Alter Iuppiter in (Pseudo)Senecan Hercules Oetaeus
16:00 BREAK
BREAK
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Academy of Athens & A. Argyriadis
16:30
16:30 - 18:30
Contributions

16:30 Marco FUCECCHI The hero’s (disputed) legacy: armorum iudicium and its transformation in Flavian epic poetry

17:00 Ana LÓIO Tragic Viriathus? Silius’ Narrative of the Lusitanian War between Tragedy and Historiography

17:30 Clara NUSSLEIN Didactic Tragedy. Tragic Figures in Silius Italicus’ Punica as Warning exempla for Domitian

18:00 Dalida AGRI Echoes of Tragedy in the Punica: The Battles of Lake Trasimene and Cannae.
Saturday, 21 September 2024

09:00 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)
09:00 - 10:00
10:00
10:00 - 11:00
Contributions

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

10:30 Madeline Marie THAYER Seneca’s Argonautic Tragedy in Statius’ Achilleid
11:00 COFFEE BREAK
COFFEE BREAK
11:00 - 11:30
11:30
11:30 - 13:00
Contributions

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

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

12:30 Jean-Michel HULLS Ecce iterum soror! Re-reading Statius’ Antigone
13:00

13:00 - 13:30