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