Prosimetrum: prose, verse and cultural capital

Prose and verse

• Verse and ‘cultural capital’: Homer, Hesiod, and Helicon
• Plato on Homer
• Verse vs. prose; cf. roll vs. codex? The case of technical literature.
• Prose, verse and the sophists: Philostratus, Imagines
• Prose supplanting verse: Greek literature in the Antonine Age
• Roman traditions of prose and verse

Prosimetrum

• Varro, Saturae Menippeae
• ‘Menippean Satire’ and Menippus (via Lucian)
• Seneca, Apocolocyntosis and Neronian freaks of genre (ps.-Seneca, Octavia)
• The Iolaus fragment: having your verse and eating it?