Events calendar

Monday, 2 September 2013 (Monash Prato Centre, Room 20 Terrace)

6:00-8:00pm
Welcome to Tuscany Reception

Tuesday, 3 September 2013 (Monash Prato Centre, Salone Grollo)

9:15-10:00 Thomas Sapsford, University of South California
The Wages of Effeminacy?: kinaidoi in Egyptian Documentary Sources

10:00-10:45 Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Ohio State University
The breast of Antinous - the male body as erotic object in Hellenistic image and text

10:45-11:15 Morning Tea (Room 8 Sala Biliardo)

11:15-12:00 Georgios Kazantzidis, University of Oxford
Callimachus and Hippocratic Gynaecology: Absent Desire and the Female Body in the Acontius and Cydippe Story (Aetia III fr.75 Harder)

12:00-12:45 Damien Nelis, University of Geneva
Eros in Apollonius Rhodius, Vergil and Valerius Flaccus

12:45-1:45 Lunch (Room 7, Main Catering Area)

1:45-2:30 Jennifer Ingleheart, Durham University
Hellenistic ‘Greek’ love at Rome: Propertius 1.20’s reception of Theocritus and Apollonius

2:30-3:15 Alexandra Neagu, University of Bucharest
Constructions of masculinity in the Alexandrian poetry and in Catullus

3:15-3:45 Afternoon Tea (Room 8 Sala Biliardo)

3:45-4:30 Aldo Settaioli, University of Perugia
The Kiss and the Soul

7:00pm Dinner Antica Fiaschetteria 'trattoria'

Wednesday 4 September 2013

9:15-10:00 Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides, Monash University
Hellenistic love in Silver Latin Epic and early Christian Writers

10:00-10:45 Iarla Manny, University of Oxford
Take Me to Alexandria and Let Me Taste of the Seven Sins: The Ancient City in the Work of Oscar Wilde

10:45-11:15 Morning Tea

11:15-12:00 Round Table Discussion

12:00 Workshop Ends

Further information from Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides and Daniel Orrells (conference organisers).