THURSDAY, 15 SEPTEMBER

 

10.00             Welcome and Introduction

 

10.15–11.30    Heroism and Speech

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Jan Stenger (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg)

"Can the Subaltern Speak? Deconstructing Epic Heroism in Late Antiquity"

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Berenice Verhelst (University of Amsterdam)

"Who's Speaking? A Computer-Based Analysis of the Homeric Voices in the Homerocentones (First Recension)"

 

11.30–12.00    Coffee break

 

12.00–13.15    The Late Antique Achilles

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Fotini Hadjittofi (Universidade de Lisboa)

"Short-Circuiting Heroism: Suicidal Achilles(es) in Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica"

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William J. Dominik (Universidade de Lisboa / University of Otago)

"Achilles as a Heroic Figure in Late Antique Latin Literature"

 

13.15–15.00    Lunch break

 

15.00–16.15    The Tragic Heroes of Dracontius

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Cillian O’Hogan (University of Toronto)

"The Tragic Hero on the Epic Stage: Dracontius, Orestis Tragoedia"

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Sophia Papaioannou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

"Re-Echoing Hylas: Dracontius’ Myth and the Classical Tradition"

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FRIDAY, 16 SEPTEMBER

 

10.00–11.15    Heroism and Gender

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Tine Scheijnen (Ghent University)

"Wild Women and Heroic Power: Modern Perspectives on Late Antique and Medieval Women in the Trojan War"

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Laura Miguélez-Cavero (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) 

"Too Much . . . Too Little . . . Just Right: Adjustments of Dionysus' Heroism in Nonnus' Dionysiaca"

 

11.15–11.45    Coffee break

 

11.45–13.00    Heroic Saints 

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Anna Lefteratou (University of Cambridge)

"The Christian Heroic Regime in Theodoret of Cyrrhus’ A History of the Monks in Syria"

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Thomas Tsartsidis (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

"Romanising Heroes in Prudentius’ Peristephanon"

 

13.00–14.45    Lunch break

 

14.45–16.00    Heroism and Historical Figures I

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Catherine Ware  (University College Cork)

"Arms and the Man I Praise: The Hero in Latin Prose Panegyric"

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Adrien Bresson (Université de Lyon – Saint-Étienne)

"Theodosius in Claudian’s III Cons. and IV Cons.: Building an Epic Model of Heroism"

 

16.00–16.30    Coffee break

 

16.30–17.45    Heroism and Historical Figures II

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Vicente Flores Militello (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

"The Hyperborean Maidens and Rome’s New Hero: A Device of Heroization in Claudian’s “Epic Hunt” (Claud. Stil. 3.237-369)"

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Gianfranco Agosti (Università di Pisa)

"Heroes and Anti-Heroes in Classicizing Historians of Late Antiquity"

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