M. Spanakis*, "Rhianus’ Ate Hesiodica (fr. 1 Powell) and the Tradition of Didactic Poetry: Human Morality, Stoic Zeus, and Ruler-Cult in Hellenistic Period", 10/3 | Conference: "Human Crime and Divine Punishment in Ancient Didactic poetry", Trinity College Dublin
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Thursday 10 March
Meeting ID: 917 3514 8227
Passcode: 037533
Friday 11 March
Meeting ID: 987 6984 4744
Passcode: 776914
Programme
Day 1, Thursday 10 March
Session 1 14:00-15:00
Chair: Monica Gale
Stratis Kyriakidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki): The Exculpation of Knowledge in Manilius
George Prekas (Trinity College Dublin): Amongst Chariots and Thunders: The Heavenly Poet and Other Riders in Manilius’ Astronomica
Session 2 15:15-16:45
Chair: Sean McGrath
Floris Overduin (Radboud University Nijmegen): Orion and Ascalabos: Two Mythical Crime Scenes in Nicander’s Theriaca
Manolis Spanakis (University of Crete): Rhianus’ Ate Hesiodica (fr. 1 Powell) and the Tradition of Didactic Poetry: Human Morality, Stoic Zeus, and Ruler-Cult in the Hellenistic Period
Sandra Plaza Salguero (University of Cádiz): Teaching Mortals: Divine Punishment and Metamorphosis in Oppian of Apamea’s Cyn. 2.612-628
Session 3 17:15-18:45
Chair: George Prekas
Pamela Zinn (Texas Tech University): Crime and Punishment without the Gods: Natural Justice in Lucretius
Adam Barker (University of Toronto): Garden of Horrors: Anti-Theism in the World of Columella
Jennifer Ferriss-Hill (University of Miami): Divine Retribution and Divine Gifts in Horace’s Ars Poetica
Day 2, Friday 11 March
Session 1 14:00-15:30
Chair: Charlie Kerrigan
Francesca Boldrer (Università di Macerata): the Punishment by Orpheus: Anger and Clemency at the Ending of Vergil's Georgics
Monica Gale (Trinity College Dublin): the Volcano’s Vengeance: ‘Divine’ Punishment in the Aetna, between Hesiod and Lucretius
Yana Reznyk (University of Cyprus): Moral Transgression and Divine Punishment: Blending Ovid and the Bible in Orientius’ Commonitorium
Session 2 16:00-17:30
Chair: Martine Cuypers
Emily Kneebone (University of Nottingham): Stellar Plans: Crime, Punishment, and the Stars in Imperial Greek Didactic Epic
Sean McGrath (Trinity College Dublin): Attack on Titan: the Ending of Oppian's Halieutica
Athanasios Vergados (Newcastle University): Crime and Punishment Revisited: Ps.-Oppian, Cynegetica 2.612–28 and 4.230–319
* Ο Μανόλης Σπανάκης είναι Ακαδημαϊκός Υπότροφος - Ερευνητής του ενταγμένου στο ΚΕΜΕ-ΠΚ Ερευνητικού Εργαστηρίου Κλασικών Σπουδών
