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Reframing Hellenistic Poetry: Hidden Figures and Local Canons

Saturday, April 22, 2023
9:15 am – 6:00 pm

The Italian Academy, Columbia University
1161 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10027
5th floor conference room

Reframing Hellenistic Poetry: Hidden Figures and Local Canons

SCHEDULE

9:30 Welcome

Panel I

9:35-10:20
Dee Clayman, ‘Hellenistic Aesthetics and the Cynics’

10:20-11:05
Alexandra Schultz, ‘Literary History and Local Canons in the Hellenistic Period: A Response to Reviel Netz’

11:05-11:15 coffee break

Panel II

11:15-12:00
Patrice Hamon, ‘Literary and cultural memory at Thasos (fourth century BCE-second century CE)’

12:00-12:45
Aneurin Ellis-Evans, ‘Myus, Miletus, and Callimachus’

12:45-2:00 Lunch break 

Panel III

2:00-2:45
Hanna Golab, ‘Civic Performances of Poetry in the Hellenistic Age’

2:45-3:30
John Ma, ‘Post-Hellenistic poetry in the gymnasion at Oxyrhynchos’

3:30-3:45 coffee break

3:45-4:15
Jackie Murray, Response

4:15-4:45
Joe Howley, Response

Center for the Ancient Mediterranean
Columbia University
Department of Art History and Archaeology
  1200 Amsterdam Avenue
653-A Ext. Schermerhorn Hall, MC 5517
New York, NY 10027
 212-854-0200

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