The fate of Rome's fatum - 01/10/2016, Charlottesville (USA)
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 01/10/2016
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Gibson Room in Cocke Hall (Charlottesville, Virginia, USA)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: American Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation ; Department of Classics of UVa.
INFO: aw5at@virginia.edu
INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE:
PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
9.15-9.30 Welcome and Introduction
Anke Walter
9.30-10.15 Poetic Prophecies and the Rise of Rome in the 2nd c. BCE
Charles McNelis
10.15-11.00 Poetry and Fate in Roman epic
Vassiliki Panoussi
– coffee break –
11.15-12.00 Vergil’s Rome in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
K. Sara Myers
– lunch –
2.00-2.45 Rome’s fatum in Ovid’s Fasti
Anke Walter
2.45-3.30 Fate and Astrology in Tacitus' Annals
Kelly Shannon
– coffee break –
3.45-4.30 Reconciling fate(s) and Rome(s)
Caroline Stark
– reception –