(All meetings take place on Thursdays, at 3pm in Classics 21 unless otherwise noted)

April 2 – Jonah Radding (UChicago, Classics), “Homeric Authority: Echoes of the Iliad in Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis”

Respondent: Abigail Akavia (UChicago, Classics)

April 16 – James Redfield (University of Chicago) on Xenophon and the Socratics

April 30 – Emily Dreyfus (UChicago, Germanic Studies), “Vom Dienste des griechischen Buchstabens befreit:” Poetics of liberation in Hölderlin’s Pindar Fragments”

Respondent: Simon Friedland (UChicago, Germanic Studies)

WED. May 13 – Jenny Strauss Clay (University of Virginia) on Parmenides, Empedocles, and the epic tradition

*Will be held at 4:30pm in Classics 21, jointly with the Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Workshop

May 28 – Abigail Akavia (UChicago, Classics), “Listening to Electra”

Respondent: Jonah Radding (UChicago, Classics)

Rhetoric and Poetics Winter 2014 Schedule

1.12 – Renaud Gagné, Cambridge University, “Metaphors in Movement: The Chorus of Stars” (Co-sponsored with the Metaphor workshop) 4pm, Classics 21.

1.15 – Leon Wash, Chicago, “On Nietzsche and Prometheus Bound”

2.5 (Contemporary French Scholars on Classical & Medieval Texts) Clara Auvray-Assayas, Professor of Latin and Humanities at the University of Rouen, “Cicero, Renaissance humanism and modern receptions of ancient philosophy : the case of “The nature of the gods”” Presentation will take place at the Franke Institute (3pm).

2.19 Emily Beugelmans & Konrad Weeda on Virgil’s Georgics (Joint meeting with Literature and Philosophy workshop). Meeting will take place at 4:30pm in Foster 305. 

(if you need a copy of the text, please e-mail lukeparker@uchicago.edu)

3.5 – Richard Hunter, Cambridge University, “Death of a child: a grief beyond the literary”

3.12 – Seth Schein, University of California – Davis, Draft Commentary on Iliad I

Meetings are on Thursdays, 3:00 – 4:30, next to the Classics Cafe in CL 021 unless otherwise noted.

10.2 – Branden Kosch (Chicago, Classics) – “Isocrates’ answer to Plato’s criticism of writing”

10.16 – Christiane Veyrard-Cosme (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) – “To write or to rewrite in Carolingian Latin Culture: the stakes of a narratological approach to Alcuin’s writings.” (Franke Institute in Regenstein Library)

10.23 (at 4:30pm) – Eric Downing (University of North Carolina) “Sympathy for the Real: Painting, Magic, and Stimmung in Gottfried Keller’s Der Grüne Heinrich” 

11.13 – Bart Van Wassenhove (Chicago, Classics) – “Truth and Advertising: On the So-Called ‘Failure of Stoic Rhetoric'”

12.4 – Emily Greenwood (Yale University) – “The Great War / Great Wars: Thucydides through WWI Memoirs” Modern sources (novels and memoirs), in a brief document to read in advance, are available here.

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/

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

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.

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