The Department of Classics will host its annual Latin Philology Day on the topic of Dennis Feeney’s new book, Beyond Greek: The Beginnings of Latin Literature on Saturday, April 16th from 10 am to 5 pm.
Programme
9:30 Coffee
10:00 Dennis Feeney (Princeton) “What I learnt writing Beyond Greek”
10:45 Tom Biggs (Georgia) “A ‘literary’ Rome: cultural capital in the middle Republic”
11:30 Kirk Freudenburg (Yale) “Translatio and the state of the (Roman) soul in Virgil’s first simile”
12:30 Light lunch and time for Art Gallery visit
2:00 Irene Peirano Garrison (Yale) “Beginnings: Resistance and integration in later versions of Roman Hellenism”
2:45 Jay Reed (Brown) “Translation Nation”
3:30 Coffee Break
4:00 The Yale Classics Graduate Students – Final Discussion and Wrap-Up
Coffee and lunch will be served.