Hellenistic Poetry Before Callimachus 14-15 June 2016 School of the Arts Library, 19 Abercromby Square, Liverpool L69 3BX Dept. of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology University of Liverpool Instytut Filologii Klasycznej of the University of Warsaw

PROGRAMME
Tuesday, 14 June 2016
9:00 - 9:30 Registration
9:30 - 9:35 Opening speech (Classics Coordinator, Bruce Gibson)
9:35 - 9:50 Presentation: Marco Perale, Jan Kwapisz
9:50 - 10:25 Keynote Lecture: Richard Hunter (Trinity College, Cambridge) - Callimachus and the Language
of Rhetorical Style
Epic and mock-epic (chair: Marco Fantuzzi)
10:25 - 11:00 Thomas Nelson (Trinity College, Cambridge) - Early Hellenistic Epic: A Reassessment
11:00 - 11:20 COFFEE BREAK
11:20 - 11:55 Enrico Magnelli (Florence) - Argonautic Epic Before Apollonius: Cleon of Kourion, and
(Possibly) More
11:55 - 12:30 Guendalina Taietti (Liverpool) - The Poets at Alexander’s court: How Flat is Flattery?
12:30 - 13:05 S. Douglas Olson (Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies / Heidelberger Academy /
University of Minnesota) - Mock-Epic and Mock-Didactic in the Late Classical and Early Hellenistic Periods:
Archestratus, Matro and Others
13:05 - 14:00 BUFFET LUNCH
Comedy & Tragedy (chair: Richard Hunter)
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14:00 - 14:35 Benjamin Cartlidge (St John’s College, Oxford) - The Attic Challenge: Poetics at the End
of the Long Fourth Century
14:35 - 15:10 Agnieszka Kotlinska-Toma (Wroclaw) - Early Hellenistic Tragedy and the Rise of a New
Aesthetic
15:10 - 15:45 Marco Fantuzzi (Macerata) – The author of the "Rhesus" as poeta doctus and "critic" of
the (tragic) tradition
15:45 - 16:15 COFFEE BREAK
Lost voices (chair: Ewen Bowie)
16:15 - 16:50 Annette Harder (Groningen) - Traces of a Lost Generation
16:50 - 17:25 Pauline LeVen (Yale, via Skype) - The Authorial Voice of Lost Authors in Early Hellenistic
Hymns
17:25 - 18:00 Peter Parsons (Oxford) - Wandering Poems in Early Ptolemaic Egypt?
19:00 CONFERENCE DINNER
Wednesday, 15 June 2016
Elegy and Epigram (chair: Annette Harder)
9:00 - 9:35 Martine Cuypers (Trinity College Dublin) - Catalogue Elegy from Antimachus to Alexander
Aetolus, Hermesianax, Phanocles and Others
9:35 - 10:10 Lucia Floridi (Milan) - Early Hellenistic Epigram: Themes, and ‘Genres’
Philosophical Poetry (chair: Annette Harder)
10:10 -10:45 Maria Noussia-Fantuzzi (Thessaloniki) - A Cure for Love. Resisting Eros in Early Hellenistic
Philosophy and Poetry
10:45 - 11:20 Rebecca Lämmle (Basel / Cambridge) - Cynulcus' Timon: Athenaeus and the Silloi
11:20 - 11:35 COFFEE BREAK
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Metrical extravagance (chair: Gregory Hutchinson)
11:35 - 12:10 Jan Kwapisz (Warsaw) - Taking Odd Measures
12:10 - 12:45 Marco Perale (Liverpool) - Simias of Rhodes, the Artsy Avant-guardist
12:45 - 13:20 Ewen Bowie (Corpus Christi, Oxford) - Philicus, 14 Months on
13:20 - 14:05 BUFFET LUNCH
Philitas of Cos (chair: S.Douglas Olson)
14:05 - 14:40 Konstantinos Spanoudakis (Rethymno) - Philitas of Cos, 14 Years Later
14:40 - 15:15 Gregory Hutchinson (Oxford) - Philetas among the Romans
15:15 - 15:30 Jan Kwapisz, Marco Perale - Closing remarks
The event has been made possible by the generous support of the Postgate Fund, the Warsaw Faculty of
Polish Studies, and the Warsaw Institute of Classical Philology.