10th Cicero Awayday -23/05/2018, Durham (England)

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The Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham is very pleased to host the 10th Cicero Awayday, which will be held on Wednesday, 23 May 2018.

FECHA/DATE/DATA: 23/05/2018

LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Durham University (Durham, England)

ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Nathan Gilbert

INFO: nathan.b.gilbert@durham.ac.uk

INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: Gratis/free/gratuito

PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:

10:00-10:40 Coffee

10:40-10:45 Welcome and Introduction

First Session:

10:45-11:15 Gesine Manuwald (UCL): “Are the Post reditum speeches ‘typical’ Ciceronian speeches?”

11:15-11:45 Andrew Sillett (Oxford): “Persuasive Obfuscation in the First Verrine”

11:45-12:15 Dominic Berry (Edinburgh): “Two Bowls Inscribed with the Names of Catiline and Cato (CIL 6.40897, 40904)”

12:15-1:45 Lunch

Second Session:

1:45-2:15 Cristina Rosillo-López (Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain): “‘I almost forgot to mention’ (paene praeterii): political conversations and Cicero’s ability to recall them”

2:15-2:45 Gabriel Evangelou (University of Crete): “Tears in Cicero’s Letters”

Coffee/Tea 2:45-3:15

Third Session:

3:15-3:45 Ioannis Ziogas (Durham): “Cicero and Ovid”

3:45-4:15 Consuelo Martino (St. Andrews): “Cicero’s Speeches in Suetonius’ Life of Caligula”

4:15-4:45 Mandy Green (Durham): “‘The very verge of her confine’: Cicero, Shakespeare and Attitudes to Old Age”