Lucretian Receptions in Prose - 16-17/06/2018, Patras (Grece)

FECHA/DATE/DATA: 16-17/06/2018

LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: University of Patras (Patras, Greece)

ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: George Kazantzidis

INFO: George Kazantzidis

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SATURDAY 16 June

10:30-11:10

Damien Nelis (University of Geneva): "Lucretius and the Historians"

11:10-11:50

Wilson Shearin (University of Miami): "Reading Pleasure: On Lucretius and Apuleius"

11:50-12:30 (Coffee Break)

12:30-13:10

Philip Hardie (University of Cambridge): "Apuleius and Lucretius"

13:10-15:00 (Lunch Break)

15:00-15:40

Francesca Romana Berno (Sapienza - Università di Roma): "Like a Rotten Stone: Lucretian Allusions about Cosmic Decay in Seneca's Epistulae Morales"

15:40-16:20

Myrto Garani (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens): “It’s the Final Countdown: Taking the Philosophical Test on the Brink of Death (Lucretius DRN, Seneca Nat. Quaest. 3.27-30)"

16:20-17:00

Fabio Tutrone (Università di Palermo): "On the Nature of Grief: Seneca, Ovid, and Lucretius' Mother Cow"

SUNDAY 17 June

10:00-10:40

George Kazantzidis (University of Patras): "Lucretius in Celsus' De medicina"

10:40-11:20

Daniel Marković (University of Cincinnati): "Lucretius in Quintilian"

11:20-12:00

Pamela Zinn (Texas Tech University): "Plutarch and Lucretian Animals"

12:00-12:30 (Coffee Break)

12:30-13:10

Gordon Campbell (Maynooth University): "Lucretius’ Influence on Lactantius in the Divine Institutes"

13:10-14:00

Valentina Prosperi (Università di Sassari): "Lucretius as Religious Thinker: The De rerum natura as Moral Repertoire in Early Modern Catholic Preaching"