The Metaphor Workshop and Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop are proud to present:
Leon Wash (The University of Chicago — Classics)
“ΦΡΕΝΩΝ ΚΑΡΠΟΣ: On Vegetal Metaphors and the Mind in Greek Poetry”
Thursday, 30th of January, 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 Rhetoric and Poetics workshop is proud to present:
Jared Secord (The University of Chicago — Classics)
“Reading Plato with Diodorus of Sicily: Atlantis and the Forgotten Past of Greece in Hellenistic Historiography”
Thursday, 9th of January, 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 2014
Our current schedule for the Winter quarter follows.
Thursday 1/9 : Jared Secord (U. Chicago)
“Reading Plato with Diodorus of Sicily: Atlantis and the Forgotten Past of Greece in Hellenistic Historiography”
Thursday 1/30 Leon Avery Wash (U. Chicago)
Leon Avary Wash (PhD student, Classics)
“ΦΡΕΝΩΝ ΚΑΡΠΟΣ: On Vegetal Metaphors and the Mind in Greek Poetry”
Thursday 2/6 Sarah Spence (The University of Georgia)
“Prophecies of Power: The Latin Poetry of Lepanto”
With the Renaissance Workshop
Thursday 2/27 Marcos Gouvea (U. Chicago)
“ut Homerus dicit: invoking Homer to explain Vergil in Servius and Macrobius”
Thursday 3/6 David Wray (U. Chicago)
“Seneca’s Shame”
With the Ancient Philosophy Workshop
Thursday 3/13 Jonah Radding (U. Chicago)
“Euripides’ Ion and the Paean: A Song for Athens or Ionia?”
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.
The Metaphor Workshop and the Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop are honored to host
Kenneth Yu (Divinity School, University of Chicago)
Platonic Epistemology in the Tabula of Cebes
Reading Religious Art in Antiquity
The talk will be held on Thursday, November 21, at 3:30 pm, in Classics 21. Note the unusual date and time for the Metaphor workshop.
Participants will be expected to have read the paper beforehand. Please visit the website of Metaphor Workshop (Download Page) and use the password “metaphor.”
Persons with a disability who may need assistance are asked to contact Kathy Fox (702-8514) in advance.
The Rhetoric and Poetics workshop and Ancient Greek & Roman Philosophy Workshop are proud to present
Bart van Wassenhove (The University of Chicago)
Advocatum ista non quaerunt: Admonition, Moral Enthusiasm and the Seeds of the Virtues in Seneca’s Letters
Wednesday, October 30th, 4.30-6pm in Classics 21.
Bart’s paper is available through this website (http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/agarp/2013/10/23/bart-van-wassenhove-advocatum-ista-non-quaerunt/ password: “theoria”), along with his handout and selections from the two letters of Seneca that he will be focusing on (94 and 108). Please read the paper in advance. The primary readings are optional, but may be helpful to you.
Please note the unusual time of this event
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 and Poetics workshop is proud to present
Andrew Ford (Princeton University)
“Being There: poetics of presence in Euripides’ IA”
Thursday 24, October, 3:30 pm in Classics 21.
Prf. Ford has circulated his article for the discussion on Thursday. Please contact Chiu, Yi-Chieh (chiuyichieh@uchicago.edu) for a copy. Please bring the article to the discussion.
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 and Poetics Workshop is proud to present
Alex Purves (University of California, Los Angeles, Classics) on
“Odysseus’ Last Leap: Unfinished Action in Homeric Epic”
Thursday, October 3rd, 3:30 pm 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.
This paper starts at the end of the Odyssey, with the leap that Odysseus performs (οἴμησεν δὲ ἀλεὶς ὥς τ’ αἰετὸς ὑψιπετήεις, 24.538) directly after being called on by Athena to stop fighting. What is such an action doing at the very end of the poem? How does this expansive but incomplete gesture orient the poem towards closure? I pair this action with the famous moment from the beginning of the Iliad when Athena prevents Achilles from fully drawing his sword. In both cases, I argue, the heroes attempt to perform gestures that are at odds with the demands of the narrative, leading to a dynamic tension between plot and habitual action – especially in so far as the latter is structured by a kind of rebellious repetition.
3. October: Prf. Alex Purves (UCLA)
Odysseus’ Last Leap: Unfinished Action in Homeric Epic
24. October: Andrew Ford (Princeton)
Being There: Poetics of Presence in the parodos of Euripides’ IA.
30. October: Bart Van Wassenhove (UChicago)
“Advocatum ista non quaerunt”: Admonition, Emotion and the Seeds of Virtue”.
With Ancient Philosophy Workshop (Dhananjay Jagannathan)
14. November: Jacobo Myerston (UChicago)
Poetic Junctures in an Orphic Hymn to Zeus
21. November: Kenneth Yu (UChicago)
Platonic Epistemology in the Tabula of Cebes: Reading Religious Art in Antiquity