Panel 14: Literature of Knowledge

Invited Speakers


Paul Demont (Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris-IV), France): Modèles techniques de la biologie et de la pathologie hippocratiques : quelques exemples

Sabine Föllinger (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Deutschland): Information und Emotion: Zur Rolle von Emotionen in antiken Fachtexten

Stephanos Matthaios (Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece): Sprach- und Kulturwandel im Spiegel der antiken griechischen Lexikographie

Accepted Speakers


Omar Álvarez Salas (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
The earliest criticism of Parmenides and Zeno’s purported retaliation

Alain Billaut (Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), France)
Ethique, rhétorique et anthropologie dans les Caractères de Théophraste

Maria Franca Buffa Giolito (Università degli Studi di Genova, Italia)
Loci d'autore nel De nomine di Consenzio
(The script will be read by Prof.ssa Mariarosaria Pugliarello, Genova.)

William E. Conklin (University of Windsor, Canada)
Cicero's Ius Gentium

Markus Dubischar (Lafayette College, Pennsylvania, USA)
Auxiliary Texts: Conceptualization and Galen’s Theory on How (Not) to Use Them

Fábio da Silva Fortes (State University of Campinas, Brasil)
Defining "syntax" in Priscian's De constructione and Apollonius' Peri Syntaxeōs: an intertextual study

Therese Fuhrer (Freie Universität Berlin, Deutschland)
Magnum opus et arduum: Literatur als Ort der Inszenierung von Kompetenz

Roger Hewer-Candee (Wadham College, Oxford, United Kingdom)
mediocritas and Time in Horace’s Odes

Wytse H. Keulen (Universität Rostock, Deutschland)
'Much learning does not make your mind know something' (Heracl. DK 22 B 40). The ambivalence of πολυμαθία in Antonine intellectual self-fashioning

Simonetta Marchitelli (Liceo Ginnasio Statale "Dante Alighieri", Roma, Italia)
Die Klassiker in der wissenschaftlichen Literatur der modernen Zeit: zwischen Tradition und Bewusstsein

Irene Pajón Leyra (Madrid, España)
Posidonius' Use of Aristotle: the Question about the Lost Texts of the Aristotelian Corpus

Helmut Seng (Universität Konstanz, Deutschland)
De pulchritudine mundi (Augustinus, Liber XXI sententiarum, 16): Elementare Belehrung

Fabio Tutrone (Università di Palermo, Italia)
Animals at the Crossroads. The Use of Animal Exempla in Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura Between Poetry, Biology, Experience and Folk Culture

Stefano Valente (Università di Bologna, Italia)
In the Workshop of a Lexicographer: The Compositional Methodology of the Lexicon of Timaeus Sophista

Jessica Wißmann (University of Iowa, USA)
'The Poet Teaches Us': How to Read Homer as a Didactic Writer