November 8th

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9h30

Opening session

 

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10h00

Opening Conference

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The Survival of Antiquity: Myth, Drama, Art

Claudia Cieri Via

University of Rome “La Sapienza”

 

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10h30

Session 1

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Mixture of Alchemical Bodies and Cosmic Sympathy: A Stoic Reading on Zosimus of Panopolis’ Alchemy

Thanasios Rinotas

KU Leuven

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The body of a suppliant as a cause of pollution: The daughters of Danaus

Isidro Molina Zorrilla

University of Málaga

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11h30

coffee break

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12h00 

Session 2

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Body and Soul in a Counterfeit Corpus: Horace Odes 5.8

Joe Grimwade

University of Cambridge

 

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Imperial Omens and the Roman Emperor’s body: more than flesh and blood

Ruben de Castro

NOVA University of Lisbon

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13h00-14h30

Lunch break

 

 

 

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14h30

Session 3

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Corpo animal, corpo humano: perspectivas do sacrifício de Ifigénia no 'Agamémnon' de Ésquilo"

Tommaso Suaria

University of Rome “La Sapienza”

 

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The hero’s corpse as gift and curse: Oedipus at Colonus

Miriam Carrillo Rodríguez

University of Malaga

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15h30

Coffee break

 

 

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16h00

Session 4

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Corpo, dança e vinho: os significados da corporeidade em "As Bacantes" de Eurípides

Waldir Moreira de Sousa Junior

University of São Paulo

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Assembly, Phalanx, Tragic Chorus: expressions of the same political greek phenomenon

Andrea Navarro Noguera

University of Valencia

 

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Embodiment of body metaphors in Plutarch’s Precepts of Statecraft

Eleni Plati

University of Hamburg

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November 9th

 

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9h30

Opening Conference

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Horace’s corpus and Petrarch’s foot

Rita Marnoto

Universidade de Coimbra

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10h

Session 5

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Bodies of dream as media of communication in Ovid’s "Metamorphoses"

Johanna Kaiser

University of Pennsylvania

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Fame Through Infamy: Receptions and poetic appropriations of the gladiator in Horace, Propertius and Byron

Hannah Burke-Tomlinson

King’s College London

 

 

 

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11h30

Coffee break

 

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12h

Session 6

 

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The ambiguities of a body: Priam’s journey in David Malouf’s Ransom

Valeria Spacciante

Scuola Normale Superiore

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Does Hesiod lurk in J. M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron or does he puppeteer?
Miguel Monteiro

University of Coimbra

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13h00

Lunch break

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14h30

Session 7

 

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The Absent Body: Presenting Agamemnon in Richard Strauss’ "Elektra"

Elaine Sanderson

University of Liverpool

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Body of worshippers. Structuring the social body in Etruscan sacrificial practices
Diana Pavel

Max Weber Centre, University of Erfurt

 

Killer Bodies: Depictions of Roman Soldiers in Science Fiction
Hannah-Marie Chidwick and Bernadette Salem

University of Briston

 

 

 

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16h00

Coffee break

 

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16h30

Session 8

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William Gladstone, Homer, The discovery of Troy on Victorian London

Maddalena Ruini

Durham University

 

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Author or corpus? Theognis and the ‘tyranny’ of scholarship
Sara De Martin

King’s College London

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November 10th

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9h00 - 17h00

 

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Cultural programme with visit to the University of Coimbra complex,

the Machado de Castro National Museum, and the archaeological site of the Roman city of Conimbriga

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