Beyond the ‘Now’: The Poetics of Expectation, Repeatability, and Timelessness in Greek and Latin Lyr
Lyric gravitates towards the present. Gestures that anchor the poet's utterance in the current moment rank high on many lists of lyric characteristics. As has often been pointed out, this was true already in antiquity, from Sappho's lyrics of love to Horace's carpe diem, and beyond. Yet not everything in Greek and Latin lyric concerns the present. The poets often turn back to the past and - our concern in this conference - they regularly look beyond the 'now' and to what may (or may not) come after.
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 20-21/09/2019
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Ioannou Centre, Oxford Unviersity (Oxford, England)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Felix Budelmann ; Tobias Allendorf
INFO: web - lix.budelmann@classics.ox.ac.uk ; tobias.allendorf@classics.ox.ac.uk
INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: £20.
PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
Friday, 20 September
11.00 Welcome and introduction
11.15 Alex Purves (UCLA), ‘Sappho’s Small Futures’
12.15 Sarah Nooter (Chicago), ‘Pindar, Failure and Futurity’
Lunch
14.15 Evina Sistakou (Thessaloniki), ‘The Alternative Futures of the Lyric Personae: Time Imagined and Time Sung in the Bucolic Corpus’
15.15 Katharine Earnshaw (Exeter), ‘The Future of Farming’
Tea
16.45 William Fitzgerald (King’s College London), ‘Conditionally Lyric’
Saturday, 21 September
9.30 Barnaby Taylor (Oxford), ‘Lyric Expectation in Statius’
10.30 Ella Grunberger-Kirsh (Brown), ‘Visions of the Future in Late Antique Hymnography’
Coffee
12.00 Thomas Phillips (Manchester), ‘Lyric Incompletion’
Lunch
14.15 Gregson Davis (Duke), ‘The Argument of Sappho, Fragments 58-59: Carpe diem "avant la lettre"?’
15.15 Felix Budelmann (Oxford), ‘Lyric Imperatives’
16.15 Close