Evropaevm Seventh Classics Colloquium
Metamorphosis – between Science and Literature
University
of Bologna
20th-21st
November 2008
Presentation:
The theme for the 2008 Classics Colloquium – the seventh in the series
– is Metamorphosis, in its various meanings - literal and metaphorical.
It will cover both scientific subjects such as alchemy and chemistry,
and literary themes such as intertextuality, disguising, pastiche,
translation, and so forth. A conference day in Ravenna (Friday 21
November) will follow the presentation (Bologna, Thursday 20 November)
of papers given by young scholars from the universities participating
in the Europaeum consortium (Oxford, Leiden, Bologna, Bonn, Geneva, Paris, Prague, Madrid, Helsinki, Cracow).
THURSDAY
NOVEMBER 20th, BOLOGNA
Dipartimento di Filologia Classica e Medioevale, via Zamboni 32
8.45 Welcome
9.15 Lecture:
A. Battistini (Bologna), The Antagonistic Affair between Literature and Science
10.00 Papers
Chair: L.A. Guichard (Salamanca)
10.10 Tazuko van Berkel (Leiden), The
Hunter Transformed
10.40 Brian Moss (Oxford), Myth in Nicander’s Theriaca
10 Pause
11.30 Silvia Porres Caballero - Zoa Alonso Fernández
(Madrid), From myth to
simulacra: maenadic metamorphosis. Part 1: Greece; Part 2: Rome
12.30-13.00 Krzysztof Bielawski (Krakow), Zeus and the torches: between literature and religion. Some remarks on the Berlin Paian 6870
13.00 Pause
Chair: D. Nelis (Genève)
14.30 Martina Vanikova (Prague), Metamorphosis of Odyssey: versification of the Livius's translation
15.00 Ben Watson (Oxford), Continuity
and Change:
Metamorphosis in Cicero’s Pro Caelio
15.30 Laura Buchholz (Helsinki), Disappearance,
continuity or
metamorphosis? The lot oracles in imperial Italy
16.00 Mark Heerink (Leiden), Death
and resurrection: Ovid’s metamorphosis of Vergil’s plague
16.30 Pause
16.45 Karine Descoings (Paris), Metamorphoses of desire and elegy in Ovid’s work: from the ciceronian uoluntas to the ovidian cupido and desiderium
17.15 Anna Maria Wasyl (Krakow), Maximianus: the Metamorphosis of
the Elegiac Lover and the Metamorphoses of the Erotic Elegy in Late
Antiquity
17.15 Aleksandra Klęczar (Krakow), Hellenistic
Scholarship and the
Greek Jewish Literature of the Second Temple Period
18.15 Antonia Rísquez (Madrid), The Metamorphosis of Ancient
Science in a Medieval Encyclopaedia: the Clauis Sapientiae
18.45 Ivan Prchlik (Prague), Differences
between the First and the Second Edition of Justinian’s Code and What
Do We Know about Them
19.15 Conclusion
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FRIDAY
NOVEMBER 21th, RAVENNA
Dipartimento
di Storie e Metodi per la Conservazione dei Beni
Culturali, via degli Ariani 1
10.30 Welcome
Chair: C. Lévy (Paris IV)
11.00 A. Bernabé (Madrid), Metamorphosis
metamorphoseos: Dionysos and
the daughters of Minyas
11.30 L.A. Guichard (Salamanca), Catalogues of Metamorphoses in the Imperial Period and Late Antiquity
12.00 P. Li Causi (Palermo), Hybridization as Speciation? The Viewpoint of Greek Folk Biology (and Aristotle's) on the Mutation of Species
12.30 Discussion
13.00 Pause
Chair: M. Beretta (Bologna)
15.00 D. Nelis (Genève), Ovid, metamorphosis and the laws of nature
15.30 A. Barchiesi (Arezzo), Roman transformations of Greek
metamorphosis
16.00 Discussion
16.20 Pause
16.45 M. Conforti (Roma), Medea and the phoenix. The prolongatio vitae
in early modern medicine
17.15 M. Martelli (Bologna), Alchemical
Distillations and "Divine
Water": the Metamorphosis of Matter
17.45 Discussion
18.00 Conclusion
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Scientific Committee: Alessandro Barchiesi
(Siena),
Alberto Bernabé (Madrid), Marco Beretta
(Bologna), Francesco
Citti (Bologna), Ivano Dionigi
(Bologna),
Damien Nelis (Ginevra), Renzo Tosi (Bologna)
Organizing Committee: Valentina Garulli, Lucia Pasetti, Antonio Ziosi (Bologna)