Drinks Reception: 5pm-7pm, 15th June
Jim Macmillan Room
DAY 1: Tuesday 16th June
Registration: 8.30-9.30
Jim McMillan Room
SESSION 1: 9.30-11.00am
PANEL 1.1: Statius on Progress
G.15
Chair: TBA
Talitha Kearey (University of Cambridge): Revertendi Animus: Re-examining the ‘Golden Age’ in Statius Siluae 2.5.
Henry Tang (University of Cambridge): Theseus in Statius Thebaid: A Symbol of Progression or Cyclic Sin?
Joscelyn Cole (Royal Holloway University of London): Journeying towards Thebes: the Relationship between Adrastus and the Epic τέλος in Statius’ Thebaid.
PANEL 1.2: Late Antique Progress
G.16
Chair: TBA
Teresa Röger (Universität Heidelberg): Proba and Paulina Progressing in Pietas. Women's Dealings with Religious Change in Late Antique Rome.
Alison John (University of Edinburgh): Literary Salons in Fifth-Century Gaul
Tomás Castro (Universidade de Lisboa): Pseudo-Dionysius on the Processes of Negation.
TEA AND COFFEE: 11.00-11.30
Jim McMillan Room
SESSION 2: 11.30-1.00
PANEL 2.1: Greek Drama
G.15
Chair: TBA
Tori Lee (Washington University in St Louis): The Psychological Effects of Restraint and Seclusion in Prometheus Bound.
Alexandre Johnston (University of Edinburgh): Human Progress and Linguistic Polyvalence in the First Stasimon of Antigone.
Paul Martin (University of Exeter): Progression through the Tetralogy: the Case of Euripides’ Alcestis.
PANEL 2.2: Republican Poetry and Progress
G.16
Chair: TBA
Georgia Ferentinou (University of Athens): Propertius' Progress of Rome: Elegies 4.4 and 4.9.
Matthew Johncock (Royal Holloway University of London): Lucretius' Reader and the Path to Moral Progress.
Christina Boltsi (University of Athens): Slaughter and the Beast: Sacrifice, Ratio, and Progress in Lucretius.
LUNCH: 1.00 – 2.00
Jim McMillan Room
SESSION 3: 2.00-3.30
PANEL 3.1: Archaic Progress
G.15
Chair: TBA
Gary Vos (University of Edinburgh): Mythological Progress and Progressing Mythology: Linus from Hesiod to Hellenistic Poetry.
Pietro Verzina (Universities of Salerno and Madrid): Changing the Self and the World. The Homeric Hymns as Patterns of Transformation and Progress.
Maciej Paprocki (Universities of Liverpool and Wroclaw): Always an Heir, Never a King. Apollo, Human Mortality and the Divine Succession.
PANEL 3.2: Reading Progress in Fragments
G.16
Chair: TBA
Effie Zagari (University of Reading): Aristophanes of the 4th c. BC.
Anna Reeve (University of Leeds): Stesichorus' Geryoneis and Greek Colonisation in the West: a Nuanced Depiction of Progress.
Max Leventhal (University of Cambridge): Dining Among the Stars: Astronomical Progress in the Cena Trimalchionis.
TEA AND COFFEE: 3.30-4.00
Jim McMillan Room
SESSION 4: 4.00-5.00
PANEL 4.1: Progression through Emulation
G.15
Chair: TBA
Chiara Bonsignore (Sapienza Università di Roma): Remember and Let Go: Progress as Continuity and Rupture in two Hellenistic Epitaphs for Homer and Hesiod (Alc. Mess. 11 and 12 G-P = A.P. 7.1 and A.P. 7.55).
Emma Greensmith (University of Cambridge): Uprooting the Bloom: The Poetics of 'Succession' in the Posthomerica of Quintus Smyrnaeus.
PANEL 4.2: Platonic and Neoplatonic Progress
G.16
Chair: TBA
Christian Keime (University of Cambridge): How to Make New Ideas with Old Words: Plato’s Use and Transformation of Traditional Discourses in Plato’s Symposium (185e-188e; 201d-212c).
Georgia Mystrioti (University of Athens): Pseudo-Plutarch's De Musica: The Moral and Pedagogical Importance of Music and Neoplatonism's Critical Attitude against its Progress.
TEA AND COFFEE: 5.00 – 5.30
Jim McMillan Room
KEYNOTE: 5.30-6.30pm
Professor Douglas Cairns: Progress to Pessimism? Sophocles’ Antigone.
The Meadows Lecture Theatre
DINNER 7.30pm, Venue TBA.
DAY 2: Wednesday 17th June
REGISTRATION: 9.00-9.30
Jim McMillan Room
SESSION 5: 9.30-10.45
PANEL 5.1: Progress and Anti-Progress in Athenian Political and Cultural Discourse
G.15
Chair: TBA
Matteo Barbato (University of Edinburgh): Between Progress and Continuity: Following the Examples of the Ancestors in Athenian Public Debate.
Claudia Baldassi (University of Edinburgh): Progress and Tradition in Euripides’ Helen.
PANEL 5.2: Progress and its Relation to the Past
G.16
Chair: TBA
Pia Campeggiani (University of Edinburgh): Under the Rim of Pandora’s Jar: Unattainable Hope as an Interpretive Key to the Ancient Greek Conception of History.
Sebastiano Bertolini (University of Edinburgh): Refusing the Progress: Aristophanes’ Countryside as Celebration of the Past.
TEA AND COFFEE: 10.45-11.30
Jim McMillan Room
SESSION 6: 11.30-1.00
PANEL 6.1: Imperial Greek Progress
G.15
Chair: TBA
Giulia Sara Corsino (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa): From Mythos to Logos. Progress of Erotic Customs in Longus' Poimenikà.
Caitlin Prouatt (University of Reading): Plutarch's Pythian Prologues: Points of Progression.
Joana Fonseca (Universidade de Coimbra): Failure and Progress in Apuleius’ Golden Ass.
PANEL 6.2: Character Progression
G.16
Chair: TBA
Dylan James (University of Oxford): Progress? The Only Persian-Speaking Greek in Herodotus’ Histories.
Sofia Carvalho (Universities of Coimbra and Nottingham): Epeius and the Dichotomy bie vs techne: the Idea of Progress in Stesichorus' Iliou Persis.
Tom Nelson (University of Cambridge): Civilisation at what Cost? Heracles and the Ambiguities of Progress in Hellenistic Poetry.
LUNCH: 1.00-2.00
Jim McMillan Room
SESSION 7: 2.00-3.30
PANEL 7.1: Progress across Time and Space
G.16
Chair: TBA
Safari Grey (Trinity St David): Homer’s Odyssey: Astronomy, and the Influence of the Near East.
Georgina Barker (University of Edinburgh): Circle Dance to St Petersburg: The Obsolescence and Necessity of Horace’s Muses in Elena Shvarts’ Homo Musagetes.
Mariamne Briggs (University of Edinburgh): Silencing Statius: a Consistent Approach to Translating the Thebaid into Middle Irish
END OF CONFERENCE
Jim Macmillan Room
DAY 1: Tuesday 16th June
Registration: 8.30-9.30
Jim McMillan Room
SESSION 1: 9.30-11.00am
PANEL 1.1: Statius on Progress
G.15
Chair: TBA
Talitha Kearey (University of Cambridge): Revertendi Animus: Re-examining the ‘Golden Age’ in Statius Siluae 2.5.
Henry Tang (University of Cambridge): Theseus in Statius Thebaid: A Symbol of Progression or Cyclic Sin?
Joscelyn Cole (Royal Holloway University of London): Journeying towards Thebes: the Relationship between Adrastus and the Epic τέλος in Statius’ Thebaid.
PANEL 1.2: Late Antique Progress
G.16
Chair: TBA
Teresa Röger (Universität Heidelberg): Proba and Paulina Progressing in Pietas. Women's Dealings with Religious Change in Late Antique Rome.
Alison John (University of Edinburgh): Literary Salons in Fifth-Century Gaul
Tomás Castro (Universidade de Lisboa): Pseudo-Dionysius on the Processes of Negation.
TEA AND COFFEE: 11.00-11.30
Jim McMillan Room
SESSION 2: 11.30-1.00
PANEL 2.1: Greek Drama
G.15
Chair: TBA
Tori Lee (Washington University in St Louis): The Psychological Effects of Restraint and Seclusion in Prometheus Bound.
Alexandre Johnston (University of Edinburgh): Human Progress and Linguistic Polyvalence in the First Stasimon of Antigone.
Paul Martin (University of Exeter): Progression through the Tetralogy: the Case of Euripides’ Alcestis.
PANEL 2.2: Republican Poetry and Progress
G.16
Chair: TBA
Georgia Ferentinou (University of Athens): Propertius' Progress of Rome: Elegies 4.4 and 4.9.
Matthew Johncock (Royal Holloway University of London): Lucretius' Reader and the Path to Moral Progress.
Christina Boltsi (University of Athens): Slaughter and the Beast: Sacrifice, Ratio, and Progress in Lucretius.
LUNCH: 1.00 – 2.00
Jim McMillan Room
SESSION 3: 2.00-3.30
PANEL 3.1: Archaic Progress
G.15
Chair: TBA
Gary Vos (University of Edinburgh): Mythological Progress and Progressing Mythology: Linus from Hesiod to Hellenistic Poetry.
Pietro Verzina (Universities of Salerno and Madrid): Changing the Self and the World. The Homeric Hymns as Patterns of Transformation and Progress.
Maciej Paprocki (Universities of Liverpool and Wroclaw): Always an Heir, Never a King. Apollo, Human Mortality and the Divine Succession.
PANEL 3.2: Reading Progress in Fragments
G.16
Chair: TBA
Effie Zagari (University of Reading): Aristophanes of the 4th c. BC.
Anna Reeve (University of Leeds): Stesichorus' Geryoneis and Greek Colonisation in the West: a Nuanced Depiction of Progress.
Max Leventhal (University of Cambridge): Dining Among the Stars: Astronomical Progress in the Cena Trimalchionis.
TEA AND COFFEE: 3.30-4.00
Jim McMillan Room
SESSION 4: 4.00-5.00
PANEL 4.1: Progression through Emulation
G.15
Chair: TBA
Chiara Bonsignore (Sapienza Università di Roma): Remember and Let Go: Progress as Continuity and Rupture in two Hellenistic Epitaphs for Homer and Hesiod (Alc. Mess. 11 and 12 G-P = A.P. 7.1 and A.P. 7.55).
Emma Greensmith (University of Cambridge): Uprooting the Bloom: The Poetics of 'Succession' in the Posthomerica of Quintus Smyrnaeus.
PANEL 4.2: Platonic and Neoplatonic Progress
G.16
Chair: TBA
Christian Keime (University of Cambridge): How to Make New Ideas with Old Words: Plato’s Use and Transformation of Traditional Discourses in Plato’s Symposium (185e-188e; 201d-212c).
Georgia Mystrioti (University of Athens): Pseudo-Plutarch's De Musica: The Moral and Pedagogical Importance of Music and Neoplatonism's Critical Attitude against its Progress.
TEA AND COFFEE: 5.00 – 5.30
Jim McMillan Room
KEYNOTE: 5.30-6.30pm
Professor Douglas Cairns: Progress to Pessimism? Sophocles’ Antigone.
The Meadows Lecture Theatre
DINNER 7.30pm, Venue TBA.
DAY 2: Wednesday 17th June
REGISTRATION: 9.00-9.30
Jim McMillan Room
SESSION 5: 9.30-10.45
PANEL 5.1: Progress and Anti-Progress in Athenian Political and Cultural Discourse
G.15
Chair: TBA
Matteo Barbato (University of Edinburgh): Between Progress and Continuity: Following the Examples of the Ancestors in Athenian Public Debate.
Claudia Baldassi (University of Edinburgh): Progress and Tradition in Euripides’ Helen.
PANEL 5.2: Progress and its Relation to the Past
G.16
Chair: TBA
Pia Campeggiani (University of Edinburgh): Under the Rim of Pandora’s Jar: Unattainable Hope as an Interpretive Key to the Ancient Greek Conception of History.
Sebastiano Bertolini (University of Edinburgh): Refusing the Progress: Aristophanes’ Countryside as Celebration of the Past.
TEA AND COFFEE: 10.45-11.30
Jim McMillan Room
SESSION 6: 11.30-1.00
PANEL 6.1: Imperial Greek Progress
G.15
Chair: TBA
Giulia Sara Corsino (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa): From Mythos to Logos. Progress of Erotic Customs in Longus' Poimenikà.
Caitlin Prouatt (University of Reading): Plutarch's Pythian Prologues: Points of Progression.
Joana Fonseca (Universidade de Coimbra): Failure and Progress in Apuleius’ Golden Ass.
PANEL 6.2: Character Progression
G.16
Chair: TBA
Dylan James (University of Oxford): Progress? The Only Persian-Speaking Greek in Herodotus’ Histories.
Sofia Carvalho (Universities of Coimbra and Nottingham): Epeius and the Dichotomy bie vs techne: the Idea of Progress in Stesichorus' Iliou Persis.
Tom Nelson (University of Cambridge): Civilisation at what Cost? Heracles and the Ambiguities of Progress in Hellenistic Poetry.
LUNCH: 1.00-2.00
Jim McMillan Room
SESSION 7: 2.00-3.30
PANEL 7.1: Progress across Time and Space
G.16
Chair: TBA
Safari Grey (Trinity St David): Homer’s Odyssey: Astronomy, and the Influence of the Near East.
Georgina Barker (University of Edinburgh): Circle Dance to St Petersburg: The Obsolescence and Necessity of Horace’s Muses in Elena Shvarts’ Homo Musagetes.
Mariamne Briggs (University of Edinburgh): Silencing Statius: a Consistent Approach to Translating the Thebaid into Middle Irish
END OF CONFERENCE