Schedule of Conference Events

Each session will be held in 125 Minor Hall

FRIDAY, 11 APRIL

I

Chair: Stephen Harrison

Cynthia Damon: ‘Fides penes auctorem erit? The Apocolocyntosis on Narrative in Verse and Prose’
Matthew Taylor: ‘Reading Seneca, Writing Tacitus: Tragic Composites and Historical Composition’

Coffee, tea

Damien Nelis: ‘Myth and History in the Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus’
John Jacobs: ‘From Sallust to Silius: metus hostilis and the Fall of Rome in the Punica’

Lunch

II

Chair: Charles McNelis

Denis Feeney: ‘Causalities: Historiographical and Epic Modes of Explanation in Statius’ Thebaid’
Bruce Gibson: ‘Causation in Post-Augustan Epic’

Coffee, tea

Helen Lovatt: ‘Cannibalising History: Livian Moments in Statius’ Thebaid’
Jean-Michel Hulls: ‘Replacing History: Inaugurating the New Year in Statius’ Silvae 4.1’
Carole Newlands: ‘The Eruption of Vesuvius: the Epistles of Pliny and Statius’

Dinner

SATURDAY, 12 APRIL

III

Chair: Vassiliki Panoussi

Shadi Bartsch: ‘Sine ira et studio: Lucan and the Lies of History’
Martin Dinter: ‘Lucan’s Poetics of Repetition: Re-writing Civil War’

Coffee, tea

Rhiannon Ash: ‘Rhoxolani Blues (Tacitus, Histories 1.79): Virgil’s Scythian Geography Revisited’
Timothy Joseph: ‘Ac rursus noua laborum facies: Tacitus’ Repetition of Virgil’s Wars at Histories 3.26-34’

Lunch

IV

1.30-4.30

Chair: Edward Courtney

Philip Hardie: ‘Crowd Psychology in Imperial Historiography and Poetry’
Ilaria Marchesi: ‘Beyond ktema and agonisma: Pliny’s Theory of Poetic Historiography’

Coffee, tea

Kathryn Williams: ‘Amicus Caesaris: Vibius Crispus in the Works of Juvenal and Tacitus’
Christopher Nappa: ‘The Unfortunate Marriage of Gaius Silius’

Dinner