The Schedule of Papers
The Thirty-First Pac Rim
Roman Literature Seminar
San Diego 2017
Monday, 10 July
Keynote Presentation (4:30-5:30)
Tony Boyle (USC): “Mediating Medea”
Reception
Tuesday, 11 July
Morning Session (9:15-12:45) — Seneca
Session Chair: Sonya Wurster
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Panel One
K.O. Chong-Gossard (Melbourne): “The Rediscovery of Tragic Myth in the 14th century: Nicholas Trevet and the Reception of Senecan Tragedy”
Alexis Whalen (U Mass, Boston): “Split Personality: the Politicization of Gender in Seneca’s Oedipus”
Coffee Break
Panel Two
Lisl Walsh (Beloit): “Senecan Tragedy in the City of Rome”
Scott Lepisto (USC): “The Harmony of the Happy Life: Seneca’s Reception of Socrates in De Vita Beata 24-28”
Lunch Break (12:45-2:00)
Afternoon Session (2:00-3:30) — Reception Varia I
Session Chair: Marcus Wilson
Panel One
Arthur Pomeroy (Victoria U, Wellington): “Franco Rossi’s Quo Vadis and the Reception of Tacitus’ Annals”
Evangelina Anagnostou-Laoutides (Monash): “Veritas in Silentio (Fam.1.8.20): Seductive Song and Platonic Silence in Petrarch”
Wednesday, 12 July
Morning Session (9:15-1:00) — From Virgil to Machiavelli
Session Chair: Arthur Pomeroy
Panel One
Susanna Braund (British Columbia): “Translating Virgil’s Aeneid: Propaideutic or Pinnacle?”
Caroline Chong (Melbourne): The Reception of Women and Culture in the Latin Declamationes”
Coffee Break
Panel Two
Marcus Wilson (Aukland): “Excavating Italicus’ Iliad”
Jayne Knight (Tasmania): “The Angry Public in Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy”
Thursday, 13 July
Morning Session (9:15-12:45) — Reception Varia II
Session Chair: Susanna Braund
Panel One
Peter Davis (Adelaide): “Un amour politique?: Love and Politics in Valerius Flaccus and Pierre Corneille”
Tammy Di-Giusto (Adelaide): “The Cena in Roman Satire”
Coffee Break
Panel Two
Ichiro Taida (I-Shou): “The Impact of Ancient Rome on the Westernization Process in Modern Japan”
Jacqueline Clarke (Adelaide): “Rape, Revenge and Resurrection in Correr’s Progne”
Lunch Break (12:45-2:00)
Afternoon Session (2:00-5:30) — The Republic
Session Chair: Tony Boyle
Panel One
John Penwill (La Trobe): “Proteus and Venus in Silius’ Punica”
Sonya Wurster (Melbourne): “The Moralist, the Immoralist and the Tyrant: The Afterlives of Cicero, Catullus and Caesar”
Panel Two
Hannah Čulík-Baird (Boston U): “Vetustas pauca non deprauat, multa tollit — Loss and Recovery of Knowledge in the Late Republic”
Friday, 14 July
Morning Session (9:15-12:00) — Ovid
Session Chair: Peter Davis
Christina Robertson (Auckland): “Ovid in the Contact Zone: Travel Writing in the Exile Poetry”
Christian Lehmann (USC): “Ovid and Poetic Genealogies in Epistulae ex Ponto 4.16”
Aimee Turner (Monash): “Ovid’s Affair: Baudri de Bourgeuil and the Adaptation of Roman History”