Clio and Her Elder Sisters: Comparative Studies in Epic, Tragedy, and Historiography (in honour of Richard Rutherford)
A symposium in honour of Professor Richard Rutherford, on the occasion of his retirement, will be held on Tuesday 26 September 2023 in the Upper Library, Christ Church, Oxford.
The symposium will be an in-person event only. (We regret that it will not be possible for the event to be live-streamed.)
There is no attendance fee, but registration is required since capacity at the venue is limited. To register, please write to Dr Anna Clark (anna.clark@classics.ox.ac.uk) by 30 June 2023, giving your name and academic affiliation.
Programme:
9.45-10.00am Welcome
10.00-10.15am Gregory Hutchinson: Tribute
10.15-11.00am Emily Baragwanath, ‘Female Agency and Family (Dys)function in Herodotus, Xenophon, and Tragedy’
11.15am-12.00pm Kathleen Coleman, ‘Statius, Eye-Witness to History’
12.00-12.45pm Stephen Halliwell, ‘Sublimity beyond Genre: Pseudo-Longinus on Epic, Tragedy, and Historiography’
2.15-3.00pm Irene de Jong, ‘Towards a Media-Conscious Narratology: The Battle of Salamis in Aeschylus and Herodotus’
3.00-3.45pm John Marincola, ‘Tragedy, Rhetoric, and History: On Thucydides 7.75’
4.15-5.00pm Nicholas Purcell, ‘Worlds of Sale, and Worlds without Sale, in Ancient Myth and History’