Ovidio: morte e trasfigurazione - 09-10-11/03/2017, Roma (Italy)

The title of this conference reflects the fact that 2017 marks the 2000th anniversary of the poet's own death. This is a conventional reckoning: nothing in Ovid's poetry can be dated after AD 17, but we have no external evidence about when he died, and the alludes both to this and to other uncertainties regarding death as a theme in Ovid's poetry. In his love poetry, Ovid does not share the often morbid fascination with death that characterizes his elegiac predecessors, Tibullus and Propertius. In his later poetry, death takes different forms, including bodily metamorphosis, literary canonization, and political exile. The conference will focus on these and related aspects, including the earliest stages of Ovid's posthumous reception.

FECHA/DATE/DATA: 09-10-11/03/2017

LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: American Academy in Rome ; Sapienza Universitä di Roma

ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Joe Farrell (University of Pennsylvania, RAAR’13); Alessandro Schiessaro (University of Manchester); Damien Nelis (University of Geneva).

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Participants: Alessandro BARCHIESI, Bettina BERGMANN, Francesca Romana BERNO, Alessandro BETORI, Emma BUCKLEY, Sergio CASALI, Andrea CUCCHIARELLI, Jacqueline FABRE-SERRIS, Joseph FARRELL, Laurel FULKERSON, Luigi GALASSO, Philip HARDIE, Stephen HINDS, Alison KEITH, Florence KLEIN, Mario LABATE, Giuseppe LA BUA, John MILLER, Damien NELIS, Ellen OLIENSIS, Bettina REITZ JOOSE, Gianpiero ROSATI, Alessandro SCHIESARO, Alison SHARROCK, Thea THORSEN, Katharina VOLK, Anke WALTER