Διεθνές Συνέδριο, 16-17 Ιουνίου, ‘Lucretian Receptions in Prose’

By Φώτης Κασπίρης

LUCRETIAN RECEPTIONS IN PROSE

Πανεπιστήμιο Πατρών, Τμήμα Φιλολογίας

Αίθουσα Ο. Βαρτζιώτη

Διοργάνωση: George Kazantzidis

 

SATURDAY 16 June 

10:15-10:30: Welcoming remarks: George Kazantzidis (University of Patras)

10:30-11:10

Damien Nelis (University of Geneva): “Lucretius and the Historians”

11:10-11:50

Wilson Shearin (University of Miami): “Reading Pleasure: On Lucretius and Apuleius”

11:50-12:30 (Coffee Break)

12:30-13:10

Philip Hardie (University of Cambridge): “Cicero and Lucretius”

13:10-15:00 (Lunch Break)

15:00-15:40

Francesca Romana Berno (Sapienza – Università di Roma): “Like a Rotten Stone: Lucretian Allusions about Cosmic Decay in Seneca’s Epistulae Morales

15:40-16:20

Myrto Garani (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens): “It’s the Final Countdown: Taking the Philosophical Test on the Brink of Death (Lucretius DRN, Seneca Nat. Quaest. 3.27-30)”

16:20-17:00

Fabio Tutrone (Università di Palermo): “On the Nature of Grief: Seneca, Ovid, and Lucretius’ Mother Cow”

 

SUNDAY 17 June

10:40-11:20

Daniel Marković (University of Cincinnati): “Lucretius in Quintilian”

11:20-12:00

Pamela Zinn (Texas Tech University): “Plutarch and Lucretian Animals”

12:00-12:30 (Coffee Break)

12:30-13:10

Gordon Campbell (Maynooth University): “Lucretius’ Influence on Lactantius in the Divine Institutes

13:10-14:00

Valentina Prosperi (Università di Sassari): “Lucretius as Religious Thinker: The De rerum natura as Moral Repertoire in Early Modern Catholic Preaching”