Sophistic Views of the Epic Past from the Classical to the Imperial Age - 03-04-05/09/2018, Winchest
The aim of this conference is to investigate the ways in which the Sophists engaged with their poetic past, thus suggesting new perspectives and directions for the study of periods of major cultural and social transformation in antiquity. The conference aims to start by examining how the first Sophists, in the 5th and 4th centuries BC, appropriated and transformed the poetic past, in order to present themselves as the heirs of traditional culture - only to attempt to replace it with their new, revolutionary models. In addition to this, the conference seeks to explore how, in the Imperial age, writers belonging to the so-called Second Sophistic continued and innovated on this trend in new cultural and political circumstances. In so doing, the conference will identify similarities and differences in the first and second Sophistic’s approaches to the poetic past, and shed further light on aspects of continuity and innovation between them. We invite submission of abstracts from scholars of philosophy, rhetoric, reception of epic, and textual criticism, and encourage an interdisciplinary approach to the topic that covers various aspects of the Sophists’ interaction with the poetic tradition. Authors to be explored include Protagoras, Gorgias, Alcidamas, Prodicus, Antisthenes, Critias, Hippias, Lucian, Dio Chrysostom, and Philostratus.
FECHA /DATE/ DATA: 03-04-05/09/2018
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: University of Winchester (Winchester, England)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Paola Bassino; Nicolò Benzi
INFO: pala.bassino@winchester.ac.uk - n.benzi@ucl.ac.uk
INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: Aquí/here/qui Deadline: 27/08/2018
-Select option C (Delegates): £84
PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
3RD SEPTEMBER
13.30-14.20: Registration
14.20-14.30: Greetings and opening of the conference
14.30-15.30: Paola Bassino and Nicolò Benzi
Introduction; Palamedes, the Sophistic hero
15.30-16.00: Coffee Break
16.00-17.00: Roberta Ioli (University of Rome Tor Vergata)
Helen bewitching between Homer and Gorgias
19.00: Conference Dinner
4TH SEPTEMBER - MORNING
9.30-10.30: Andrew Ford (Princeton University)
Homer and the History of Literature in the Age of the Sophists
10.30-11.30: Kathryn Morgan (University of California, Los Angeles)
Mythological Role-Playing among the Sophists
11.30-12.00: Coffee Break
12.00-13.00: David F. Driscoll (University of California, Davis)
Sophistic taste: Intellectuals, poetry, and cultural capital
in Quaestiones Convivales 7.5
13.00-14-30: Lunch
4TH SEPTEMBER – AFTERNOON
14.30-15.30: Nicholas Wilshere (University of Nottingham)
I’m not vexed by these jibes: Re-reading epic with Lucian’s Judgement
of the Goddesses
15.30-16.30: Sara Tirrito (University of Nantes – University of Turin)
Helen was never abducted, Paris abducted her because he was
bored: two rewritings of Homer in Dio Chrysostom (orr. 11-20)
16.30-17.00: Coffee Break
17.00-18.00: Isidor Brodersen (Universität Duisburg-Essen)
Homer the liar: Subverting the epic past in Dio Chrysostom’s or. 11
5TH SEPTEMBER
9.30-10.30: Sophie Schoess (University of Oxford)
Viewing epic narrative in Philostratus’ Imagines
10.30-11.00: Coffee Break
11.00-12.00: Valentin Decloquement (Université de Lille)
A rhetorical Trojan War: Philostratos’ Heroikos, the power of language
and the construction of the truth
12.00-12.45: Conclusions