The Cambridge Faculty of Classics will be holding a workshop on the epigrams of Luxorius on 4th-5th September 2025.
This is the third iteration of an experimental workshop (The Fixed Handout Workshop) that started in Cambridge in April 2016 and whose aim was to encourage Latinists to reflect on the impact that our varying academic influences and different methodological preferences have on the research we produce. On that occasion, participants delivered papers that were based on a pre-arranged selection of thematically connected passages. A second iteration was held at Penn State University in September 2018. In this case, participants delivered papers centred on a single text (Vitruvius De Arch. 3.1). Papers were published as a special issue of Ramus (52): https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ramus/issue/4C673A39C2E5CF4636230C2D1928B892
In this third iteration, we have invited a diverse group of Latinists to discuss the epigrams of Luxorius, which we believe are particularly amenable to variable interpretations under different theoretical lenses, and which offer a good compromise between being still relatively understudied from a literary theoretical perspective but already scaffolded by a good editorial and commentary tradition.*
Speakers at the workshop will include:
- Tom Biggs (University of St Andrews)
- Marina Cavichiolo Grochocki (Arizona State University)
- Barbara del Giovane (Università degli Studi di Firenze)
- William Freeman (Christ’s College Cambridge)
- Michael Hanaghan (Australian Catholic University)
- Mathias Hanses (Penn State University)
- Aaron Kachuck (Université Catholique de Louvain)
- Talitha Kearey (University of St Andrews)
- Florence Klein (Université de Lille)
- Rebecca Moorman (Boston University)
- Robert Rohland (Trinity College Cambridge)
- Kathrin Winter (Universität Heidelberg)
The workshop will be held in the Faculty of Classics at Cambridge (Room G21) on Thursday 4th and Friday 5th September 2025. If you wish to attend, please email Elena Giusti (eg382@cam.ac.uk) ideally by end of July for catering purposes.
For any further information please feel free to contact the organisers:
Elena Giusti (eg382@cam.ac.uk)
Robert Rohland (rar50@cam.ac.uk)
Bobby Xinyue (bobby.xinyue@kcl.ac.uk)
*The text is in Riese’s and Shackleton Bailey’s edition of AL. Text with commentary is provided by H. Happ. 1986. Luxurius. Text, Untersuchungen, Kommentar. 2 vols. Stuttgart. Two further commentaries: F. Dal Corobbo. 2006. Per la lettura di Lussorio. Status quaestionis, testi e commento. Bologna. M. Rosenblum. 1961. Luxorius. A Latin poet among the Vandals. New York (the latter includes an English translation).