Ancient Literature and the Visual - 05-12-19-26/10, 02-09-16-23-30/11, 07/12/2015, London (England)

FECHA/DATE/DATA: 05-12-19-26/10, 02-09-16-23-30/11, 07/12/2015

LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Senate House, University of London (London, England)

ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Phiroze Vasunia

INFO: p.vasunia@ucl.ac.uk

INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: gratis /free / gratuito

PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:

5th October ‘Cultural transmission, intermediality and Greek poetics’ Pantelis Michelakis (Bristol) 12th October 'Homer and the Ekphrasists: Text and Image in the Elder Philostratus’ ‘Scamander' (Imagines 1.1)’ Jas Elsner (Oxford) & Michael Squire (KCL) 19th October ‘The Flawed Art of Pliny the Elder’ Carrie Vout (Cambridge) 26th October ‘Walter Pater and Ancient Sculpture’ Liz Prettejohn (York) 2nd November No seminar 9th November ‘Rewriting Greek Myths on Roman Sarcophagi’ Zahra Newby (Warwick) 16th November ‘Elegiac perspectives on the visual arts, from antiquity to the Renaissance’ Luke Houghton (Reading) 23rd November ‘Sympathy and Sophoclean tragedy in Lessing’s Laocoön’ Katherine Harloe (Reading) 30th November ‘Senses of presence: Vision, spatiality and embodiment in Greek literature and rhetoric’ Ruth Webb (Lille) 7th December ‘Does opsis do justice to the visual in tragedy?’ Oliver Taplin (Oxford)