Winter Quarter Schedule (2014)

Welcome to 2014

Our current schedule for the Winter quarter follows.

Thursday 1/9 : Jared Secord (U. Chicago)
“Reading Plato with Diodorus of Sicily: Atlantis and the Forgotten Past of Greece in Hellenistic Historiography”

Thursday 1/30 Leon Avery Wash (U. Chicago)
Leon Avary Wash (PhD student, Classics)
“ΦΡΕΝΩΝ ΚΑΡΠΟΣ: On Vegetal Metaphors and the Mind in Greek Poetry”

Thursday 2/6 Sarah Spence (The University of Georgia)
“Prophecies of Power: The Latin Poetry of Lepanto”
With the Renaissance Workshop

Thursday 2/27 Marcos Gouvea (U. Chicago)
“ut Homerus dicit: invoking Homer to explain Vergil in Servius and Macrobius”

Thursday 3/6 David Wray (U. Chicago)
“Seneca’s Shame”
With the Ancient Philosophy Workshop

Thursday 3/13 Jonah Radding (U. Chicago)
“Euripides’ Ion and the Paean: A Song for Athens or Ionia?”

Updates on the schedule and room information will be available on our blog.

The Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop is concerned with the literature of classical Greece and Rome, considered either on its own terms or in relation to the literature and poetry of other cultures.  It invites presentation of critical arguments completed or in progress from the broadest possible range of perspectives.

Faculty Sponsors:
Michele Lowrie
Sarah Nooter
Student Coordinator
Chiu, Yi-Chieh

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