Conference Podcast: Greek Literary Epigram: From the Hellenistic to the Early Byzantine Era

International Conference UCL, 11-13 September 2013
Organisers: C. Carey (UCL), M. Kanellou (UCL), I. Petrovic (Durham)

Though there has been a surge in interest in Greek literary epigram during the last decades, much of the discussion still centres on the Hellenistic period or on specific poets. This conference, which brought together some of the most distinguished international experts in the field, sought to explore the genre on a larger canvas, combining a wider chronological sweep with a precise focus on key themes. This website brings together the conference papers as delivered for those who wanted to be there but couldn't - or just those who would like to understand the epigram better.

Welcome Speech

Chris Carey (UCL)

Welcome Speech 

Session 1: Crossing the Boundary

Chair: Chris Carey

Joseph Day (Wabash College)

Reading Inscriptions in Literary Epigram

Silvia Barbantani (UCSH, Milan)

Literary Elements in the Representation
of War and Peace in Epigraphic
Epigrams Concerning Soldiers

 

Session 2: Hellenistic Epigram as Text

Chair: Anna Maria Kanthak

Andrej Petrovic (Durham)

Greek Literary Epigrams in Private
Compilations of Hellenistic Age

Kristoffel Demoen (Ghent)

The 'Bookishness' of Epigrams
on Authors and Texts

 

Session 3: Epigram and Gods

Chair: Enrico Magnelli

Kathryn Gutzwiller (Cincinnati)

Dreadful Eros, Before and After Meleager

Maria Kanellou (UCL)

Aphrodite, Athena, and Epigram:
the Story of Two Goddesses

Irmgard Männlein-Robert (Tübingen)

Asclepius – a Manager of Wonders? Modes
of Healing in Hellenistic Epigrams

 

Thursday 12/09/13

 

Session 4: Epigram, Emotions and Philosophers

Chair: Don Lavigne

Doris Meyer (Strasbourg)

The Performance of Emotions

Joseph Romero (Mary Washington)

Philosophers in Greek Epigram

 

Session 5: Epigrammatic Death

Chair: Carlos Jesus

Richard Hunter (Cambridge)

Narratives of Death: Hellenistic
Epigram and the Archaic Tradition

Mike Tueller (Arizona State)

Sea and Land: Dividing
Sepulchral Epigram

 

Session 6: Points of Contact

Chair: Ivana Petrovic

Annette Harder (Groningen)

Generic variety in the
Epigrams of Callimachus

Marco Fantuzzi (Columbia)

Variations on the Music of Cybele

 

Session 7: The Two Garlands

Chair: Sara Kaczko

Regina Höschele (Toronto)

A Garland of Freshly Grown Flowers: the
Poetics of Editing in Philip's Stephanos

Charles Campbell (Cincinnati)

Imitation, Variation, and Poetic Persona:
Callimachus and Leonidas of Tarentum
in the Garland of Philip

Friday 13/09/13

 

Session 8: Scoptic Epigram

Chair: Antonietta Provenza

Ivana Petrovic (Durham)

On the Origins and Setting of
Greek Scoptic Epigram

Lucia Floridi (Milan)

Greek Scoptic Epigram,
Ekphrasis, and Visual Arts

Session 9: Negotiating Language: Bilingualism and Riddles

Chair: Maria Plastira-Valkanou

Valentina Garulli (Bologna)

Romans Making Greek Epigrams:
Bilingual Writers in Rome

Simone Beta (Siena)

The Riddles of the Fourteenth Book of
the Palatine Anthology: Later Imperial,
Early Byzantine – or Something Else?

 

Session 10: Epigram between Paganism and Christianity

Chair: Margherita Maria Di Nino

Peter Bing (Emory)

Ecphrasis and Iconoclasm:
Epigrams on Statues, Between
Christianity and Paganism

Arkadii Avdokhin (KCL)

Palladas vs. Christian Discourse –
Late Antique Literary Epigram in
the Context of Urban Inscriptions

 

Session 11: Agathias'Cycle

Chair: Maria Vasiloudi

Steven Smith (Hofstra)

Reading the Imperial Garden at
Hieron: Ideologies of Ekphrasis
in the Cycle of Agathias

Federica Giommoni (Florence)

Pride and Identity: Propaganda –
Epigrams from the Reign of Justinian

Closing Remarks

Chris Carey (UCL)

Closing Remarks