Intertextuality in Seneca’s Philosophical Writings (5-6 May)
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National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Classics)
PROGRAMME
Friday, May 5
10.00-10.15: Welcome
10.15-11.00: Amanda Wilcox: Seneca’s Roman Fathers
11.00-11.45: R. Scott Smith: Myth, Poetry, and Rhetoric in Seneca Philosophus
11.45-12.15: Coffee Break
12.15-13.00 Sophia Papaioannou: Reading Seneca reading Vergil
13.00-15.30 Lunch break
15.30-16.15: Andreas Ν. Michalopoulos: Seneca’s quotations of Latin poetry in the Epistulae Morales
16.15-17.00: Francesca Romana Berno: The Importance of collecting Shells: Intertextuality in Seneca’s Epistle 49
17.00-17.30: Coffee break
17.30-18.15: Tomasso Gazzarri: Sub auro servitus habitat: Seneca’s moralizing of architecture and the anti-Neronian querellae.
18.15-19.00: Jula Wildberger: Seneca and the doxography of ethics
Dinner at 20.30
Saturday, May 6
Naturales Quaestiones
10.00-10.45: Myrto Garani: “‘Always be a poet, even in prose’: Seneca’s Naturales Quaestiones Book 3 and Ovid’s Metamorphoses”.
10.45-11.30: Fabio Tutrone: Earthquakes, Atoms, and Folly: Lucretian Patterns in Book 6 of Seneca’s Natural Questions.
11.30-12.00: Coffee break
12.00-12.45: Carey Seal [title to be announced]
12.45-13.30: Roundtable: conclusions