Panel 15: Greek and Roman Epic

Invited Speakers


Margalit Finkelberg (Tel-Aviv University): Homer and his Peers

Accepted Speakers


Paolo Asso (University of Michigan, USA)
Africa in Lucan

Elton Barker (Christ Church College, Oxford, United Kingdom)
Forgetting Thebes: the Iliad's "Epipolesis" and the silencing of an epic rival

Barbara Weiden Boyd (Bowdoin College, Brunswick, USA)
Ovid's Epics

Maria Fernanda Brasete (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal)
The rhetoric of eros in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite

Jenny Strauss Clay (University of Virginia, USA)
Achilles Inaugurates his Cult: Iliad 23 as Blueprint for Hero Cult

Josep Antoni Clúa Serena (Universitat de Lleida, España)
Paraphrases, Scholia and Paratextual Elements in Lycophron´s Alexandra

Joana Catarina Mestre da Costa (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal)
Martial: the loss of an epic?

Aurélie Delattre (Université de Bourgogne, France)
Les Punica de Silius Italicus et la Johannide de Corippe : quelques éléments de rapprochement entre deux épopées africaines

Nikolay Grintser (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia)
The Name of Aeneas and the End of the Aeneid

John Jacobs (Loyola College in Maryland, USA)
The death of Hannibal in Silius Italicus, Punica 2.696-707

Yanick Maes (Universiteit Gent, Belgium)
Translating Lucan's Pharsalia at the beginning of the seventeenth-century

André Malta (University of São Paulo, Brasil)
Language Out of Control: Agamemnon’s Speech In Iliad II

Fernanda Messeder Moura (Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil)
The structural role of the supplication in Statius' Thebaid

Anatole Mori (University of Missouri, USA)
In Bed with Hera: Female Intercession in Apollonius' Argonautica

Christopher Nappa (University of Minnesota, USA)
Love Unlimited: Amor, Excess, and Absence in Aeneid 9

Ursula Offermann (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Deutschland)
Textualisation von Mündlichkeit in Homers Odyssee: der Hörer im Text

Erendiz Ozbayoglu (İstanbul Üniversitesi, Türkiye)
L'Eredità linguistica d'Omero in Anatolia

Luz E.A. Pepe de Suárez (Diversidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina,)
An approach to the syntax of the humoristic epic: The Batrachomiomachia and Tolkien's Farmer Giles of Ham

Elena G. Rabinovitch (St. Petersburg State University, Russia)
The Borders of "Europe" in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo

Yoav Rinon (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Erotic Power and the Fall of Troy: The Centrality of Aphrodite to the Iliad

Sandra Romano Martín (FECYT, España / Oxford University, United Kingdom)
El Olimpo y el infierno en la poesía de Claudiano

Marco Antonio Santamaría (Universidad de Salamanca, España)
Black humour and epic parody in Elpenor's episode (Odyssey 10.552-560, 11.51-83)

Maria Chiara Scappaticcio (Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, Napoli, Italia)
Tra ecdotica e performance: per un Corpus Papyrorum Vergilianarum

Christoph Schubert (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Deutschland)
Das Achilleis-Proöm als Schlüssel zum Verständnis von Statius' Spätwerk

Ibolya Tar (Universität Szeged, Ungarn)
Aeneas-Drama? (Einige Aspekte des 6. Buches der Aeneis)

Cláudia Teixeira (University of Évora, Portugal)
The Pax Romana: the vision of Augustus' princedom through Virgil's Aeneid

Athanassios Vergados (Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA)
Oedipus in Ovid's 'Thebaid'

Snežana Vukadinović (Serbian Society for Classics, Novi Sad, Serbia)
Classical Heracles spirit within the epic poem cycle upon Marko Kralyevich (Marko the Prince)

Naoko Yamagata (Open University London, United Kingdom)
Hermes - the Trickster and Prophet