Technepopoiia: between Greek technical poetry and treatises in verse - 12/07/2018, Nijmegen (Netherl
This conference, to be held in Soeterbeeck on 12 July 2018 (Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands) aims to approach technical poetry from different viewpoints: as art and as expression of knowledge.
FECHA/ DATE/DATA: 12/07/2018
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Radbout University (Nijmegen, Netherlands)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Dr. Floris Overduin
INFO: f.overduin@let.ru.nl
INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: Gratis / Free / Gratuito
PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
Thursday 12 July
09:00 – 09:30 Floris Overduin (organiser, Radboud University Nijmegen)
Opening remarks and introduction
09:30 – 10:15 Enrico Magnelli (Università degli Studi di Firenze)
‘On the Way to Nicander: Numenius’ Halieutica and Theriaca’
10:15 – 11:00 Leonardo Cazzadori (Stanford University)
‘Knowledge and Immersive Participation in Hellenistic Technical Poetry’
11:00 – 11:20 coffee
11:20 – 12:05 Kathryn Wilson (Washington University in St. Louis)
‘A Non-Hesiodic (Anti-Hesiodic?) Strain of Hellenistic Didactic Poetry’
12:05 – 12:50 Johannes Wietzke (Carleton College)
‘The World Writ Small: Pseudo-Scymnus’ Iambic Geography and the Poetics of Scale’
12:50 – 14:10 lunch
14:10 – 14:55 Emily Kneebone (University of Nottingham)
‘The Pleasures of Knowledge in Later Greek Didactic’
14:55 – 15:40 Max Leventhal (Cambridge University)
‘Astronomical Accounts: The Poetics of Numbers in Manilius and Ps.-Manetho’
15:40 – 16:00 coffee
16:00 – 16:45 Francesco Grillo (University of Glasgow)
‘The ἀριθμητικά from AP 14 in Context: A Reappraisal of Their Origin and Function’
17:00 – 18:30 drinks
Friday 13 July
09:30 – 10:15 Maria Gerolemou (University of Cyprus)
‘Animated Stones: Orphic Lithica’
10:15 – 11:00 Robin Greene (Providence College)
‘Science, Wonder, and the Divine in Paulus Silentiarius’ Poem on ‘Marvelous’ Waters’
11:00 – 11:15 coffee
11:15 – 12:15 general discussion and closing remarks
12:15 – 13:15 lunch