The Rhetoric &Poetics Workshop is proud to present
Jeremy Brightbill (the University of Chicago)
The Scenarios of Roman Declamation
Thursday, 29 May, 3:30 Classics 21
A reception will follow. Persons with a disability who feel they may need assistance are asked to contact Kathy Fox (702-8514) in advance.
To view the schedule of R&P events in 2014-5, please visit:
http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/rhetpoet/
The Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy and Rhetoric & Poetics Workshops are proud to present
Luke Parker (the University of Chicago)
Text and Poetics in Heraclitus and Plato
Wednesday, 7 May, 4:30 Classics 21
A reception will follow. Persons with a disability who feel they may need assistance are asked to contact Kathy Fox (702-8514) in advance.
To view the schedule of upcoming Ancient Philosophy and R&P events, please visit:
http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/rhetpoet/
https://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/agarp/
The Rhetoric &Poetics Workshop is proud to present
Damien Nelis (Université de Genève)
Naming the World:History and Geography in Vergil’s Georgics
Thursday, 1 May, 3:30 Classics 21
In this talk I want to look first at some aspects of the handling of proper names in Vergil’s Georgics. This discussion will lead on to a study of time and space in the poem. Beginning with a close reading of the opening sections of book 1, I will attempt to show how Vergil there sets the scene and offers glimpses of the wider world in which agricultural labour takes place. I will go on to trace the ways in which the poem shifts between the general and the specific, as the reader is confronted with constructions of time and space that come to focus on Roman history and the place of Italy and Rome in the world. Overall, the aim is to investigate some of the ways in which the poem offers a universalizing vision, while both indulging in Hellenistic doctrina and commenting in a detailed way on contemporary Roman concerns.
A reception will follow. Persons with a disability who feel they may need assistance are asked to contact Kathy Fox (702-8514) in advance.
To view the schedule of upcoming R&P events, please visit:
http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/rhetpoet/
The Rhetoric & Poetics Workshop is proud to present
Jacobo Myerston (UChicago)
Towards a Philology of Liberation: Reading Bolaño and the Classics
Thursday, 24 April, 3:30 Classics 21
A reception will follow. Persons with a disability who feel they may need assistance are asked to contact Kathy Fox (702-8514) in advance.
To view the schedule of upcoming R&P events, please visit:
http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/rhetpoet/
The Rhetoric & Poetics Workshop is proud to present
Andrew Horne
(The University of Chicago)
Hypothêkai, or Giving Instructions in Archaic Hexameters
Commands in Hesiod’s Works and Days are not commonly distinguished from gnomes or general wisdom, but they should be treated separately. Hesiodic commands are a distinct style of poetry that appears elsewhere in the archaic hexameter. The paper identifies a poetic genre of hexametrical commands and argues that this is the genre of hypothêkai, or wisdom instructions. Previous treatments of hypothêkai have focused on subject matter; this paper offers a formal approach, which accounts for the ancient occurrences of “hypothêkai” considered generic by Friedländer (1913) and Kurke (1990), and also introduces new evidence with usages in the Homeric scholia. Hesiod’s Works and Days is the monumental instance of the genre; shorter examples appear in Homeric speeches, from a single command with some special forms around it, to thirty-line speeches that are miniature parainetic poems. Many oracles fall under the genre as well. After establishing the genre, the paper explores its characteristic forms. The paper aims primarily to make progress in the formal analysis of the Works and Days, but opens possibilities, not here explored, for interpretations of Homer and others.
Thursday, 17th of April, 3:30pm in Classics 21
A reception will follow. Persons with a disability who feel they may need assistance are asked to contact Kathy Fox (702-8514) in advance.
To view the schedule of upcoming R&P events, please visit:
http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/rhetpoet/
Welcome to Spring Quarter 2014
Our current schedule for the Winter quarter follows.
17 April: Andrew Horne (UChicago)
Hypothêkai, or Giving Instructions in Archaic Hexameters.
24 April Jacobo Myerston (UChicago)
Towards a Philology of Liberation: Reading Bolaño and the Classics
1 May Damien Nelis (Université de Genève)
Naming the world: history and geography in Vergil’s Georgics
7 May (Wednesday), Luke Parker (UChicago)
Text and Poetics in Heraclitus and Plato
29 May: Jeremy Brightbill (UChicago)
The Scenarios of Roman Declamation
Updates on the schedule and room information will be available on our blog.
The Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop is concerned with the literature of classical Greece and Rome, considered either on its own terms or in relation to the literature and poetry of other cultures. It invites presentation of critical arguments completed or in progress from the broadest possible range of perspectives.
Faculty Sponsors:
Michele Lowrie
Sarah Nooter
Student Coordinator
Chiu, Yi-Chieh
The Rhetoric & Poetics Workshop is proud to present
Jonah Radding
(The University of Chicago)
The Paean in Euripides’ Ion: Songs for Athens and Ionia?
Thursday, 13th of March, 3:30pm in Classics 21
A reception will follow. Persons with a disability who feel they may need assistance are asked to contact Kathy Fox (702-8514) in advance.
To view the schedule of upcoming R&P events, please visit:
http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/rhetpoet/
The Ancient Philosophy and Rhetoric & Poetics Workshop are proud to present
David Wray (The University of Chicago)
Seneca’s Shame
Thursday, 6th of March, 3:30pm in Classics 21
A reception will follow. Persons with a disability who feel they may need assistance are asked to contact Kathy Fox (702-8514) in advance.
To view the schedule of upcoming Ancient Philosophy and R&P events, please visit:
http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/agarp
http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/rhetpoet/
The Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop is proud to present
Marcos Gouvea (The University of Chicago)
ut Homerus dicit:
invoking Homer to explain Vergil in Servius and Macrobius
Thursday, 27th of February, 3:30pm in Classics 21
A reception will follow. Persons with a disability who feel they may need assistance are asked to contact Kathy Fox (702-8514) in advance.
To view the schedule of upcoming R&P events, please visit:
http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/rhetpoet/
The Renaissance Workshop and Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop are proud to present
Sarah Spence (Medieval Academy of America)
Prophecies of Power: The Latin Poetry of Lepanto
Thursday, 6th of February, 3:30pm in Classics 21
On October 7, 1571, the Holy League Alliance of Spain, Venice, and the papacy achieved a decisive and unexpected victory over the Ottoman navy in the battle of Lepanto. Hundreds of poems in both Latin and the vernacular were circulated immediately after the battle. While studies have shown how the vernacular poetry of Lepanto informed distinct national identities, this paper will consider a counterbalancing phenomenon: why large numbers of Italian poets from diverse social contexts and regions wrote Latin poems about the battle. Their efforts to articulate the significance of the victory in Latin seem to stem from a renewed imperial vision to the shared inheritance of Rome to the continued complexities of empire.
A reception will follow. Persons with a disability who feel they may need assistance are asked to contact Kathy Fox (702-8514) in advance.
To view the schedule of upcoming Metaphor and R&P events, please visit:
http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/rhetpoet/
http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/renaissance/