The first meeting of the Durham/Edinburgh/Glasgow network on ancient epistolography will take place in Edinburgh on Friday 21 February 2025. You can find the programme, timings and location below. If you want to take part in the workshop please get in touch with Janja Soldo by Sunday 9 February 2025: jsoldo@ed.ac.uk.
First meeting of the Durham/Edinburgh/Glasgow network on ancient epistolography
Friday 21 February 2025
Edinburgh University, Chrystal MacMillan Building, Seminar room 1
Programme
08.55-09.00: Welcome
Latin letters and poetry
Chair: Janja Soldo (Edinburgh)
09.00-09.30: Myrto Garani (Athens): Seneca on Plato and other poets (Epistle 58)
09.30-10.00: Laura Losito (Swansea): From Cicero to Seneca to Pliny: A Quantitative Look at Roman Letters
10.00-10.30: coffee break
Greek fictional letters I
Chair: Max Leventhal (Edinburgh)
10.30-11.00: Valentina Brizio Falletti Di Castellazzo (Oxford): Verbal Repetition and Communal Identity in Aelian’s Letters of Farmers
11.00-11.30: Orianna Giannini (Pisa): Towards a New Critical Edition of the Letters of Flavius Philostratus
11.30-11.45: coffee break
Greek fictional letters II
Chair: Andrew Morrison (Glasgow)
11.45-12.15: Effrosyni Tsakou (Lille): The Role of Visual and Performative Elements in Ancient Fictional Epistolography: The Case Study of Aristaenetus 1.26
12.15-12.45: Roberto di Tuccio (Durham): Identity in Performance: Hetairai and Role-Play in Alciphron’s and Aristaenetus’ Letters
12.45-13.15: Antonios Pontoropoulos (Rome): Representations of female voices in the letter collection of Theophylact Simocatta
13.15-14.30: lunch break
Letters from the Republic to Trajan’s Rome
Chair: Ruth Morello (Manchester)
14.30-15.00: Solveig Hilmarsdottir (Cambridge): Language choices in Latin letters from the late Republic
15.00-15.30: Ethan della Rocca (Cornell): Themes of Restoration: The Letter Groupings of Ad Atticum Book 4
15.30-16.00: Caitlin Spencer (Durham): Letters and Location: the importance of place in Pliny and Seneca
16.00-16.30: coffee break
Late antique letters
Chair: Giulia Marolla (Bari)
16.30-17.00: Katharina Blaas (Tübingen): Passing the Baton. Symmachus, his Son, and the Seventh Book of the epistulae
17.00-17.30: Joop van Waarden (Nijmegen): Weather in late antique correspondences