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Department of Classics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Department of Literary Studies and GICS, Ghent University
Faculté des Humanités, Département des Langues et Cultures Antiques, University of Lille

15th Trends in Classics International Conference  

Labor imperfectus:
Unfinished, Incomplete, Partial Texts in Classical Antiquity

Thessaloniki, June 27-29, 2022 

Conference Venue
Auditorium I
Aristotle University, Research Dissemination Center
September 3rd Avenue, University Campus
http://kedea.rc.auth.gr

Speakers and Titles

GREEK

  1. Kathryn Gutzwiller (Cincinnati): “The Aesthetics of Ordering and Reordering in Greek Epigram Anthologies”.
  2. David Konstan (New York University): “Finishing Iphigenia in Aulis”.
  3. Giulia Sissa (UCLA): “Platonic Endings and their Modern Echoes”.
  4. Myrto Garani (Athens): “How to Walk along a Pioneer’s Fragmentary Track: Theophrastus’ Meteorological Studies?”
  5. Richard Hunter (Cambridge): “The End of the Odyssey: Labor imperfectus?”
  6. Evina Sistakou (Aristotle): “How to Read Callimachus’ Aetia and Hecale?”

LATIN 

  1. Fabio Tutrone (Palermo): “Relativizing Unfinishedness: Lucretian Textuality and Epicurean Therapy”.
  2. Rita Marchese (Palermo): “Sed redeo ad formulam (Off. 3.20): Completezza e imperfezione nell’ultimo Cicerone”.
  3. John F. Miller (Virginia): “Revisiting Closure in Ovid’s Fasti”.
  4. Jacqueline Fabre-Serris (Lille): “How to Read Hyginus’ Fabulae? Theories and Practices”.
  5. Evangelos Karakasis (Aristotle): “Calp. 6 and Eins. 1. Lost Endings (?) and the Neronian Pastoral-dissimulatio”
  6. Stavros Frangoulidis (Aristotle): “Seneca’s Phoenissae: In Search of an Ending”.
  7. Philip Hardie (Cambridge): “Statius, Achilleid: How to Break Off a carmen perpetuum”.
  8. Giusto Picone (Palermo): “Lo specchio infranto: La laus imperfecta nel De clementia di Seneca”.
  9. Bettina Reitz-Joosse (Groningen): “Tacitus’s Annals and Gustav Freytag’s Die verlorene Handschrift”. 
  10. Craig Arthur Williams (Illinois): “Fragments of Roman Sexuality in Petronius’ Satyricon: Cinaedi, Fratres, and Others”.
  11. Andrew Zissos (Irvine): “Intertextual Foreclosure: Reflections on the Missing Conclusion to Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica”.

LATE ANTIQUITY 

  1. Gianfranco Agosti (Rome, Sapienza): “How to End an Endless Poem: The Case of Nonnus’ Dionysiaca”.  
  2. Marco Formisano (Ghent): “This City Will Always Pursue You”: Rutilius Namatianus’ Impossible Return”.
  3. Paolo Felice Sacchi (Ghent) “Arrhythmic Historiography and Lost Letters: Fulgentius’s De aetatibus mundi et hominis”.

MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY TEXTS 

  1. Laura Jansen (Bristol): “Literatura incompleta: Borges’ Classics between World and Universe”.
  2. Stéphanie Dord-Crouslé (Lyon): “Remettre en mouvement un roman inachevé: l’agenceur de «seconds volumes possibles» du projet Bouvard”
  3. Richard Thomas (Harvard): “‘The Finishing End is at Hand’: Odds and Ends from the Bob Dylan Archive”.
  4. Sylvie Thorel (Lille): “Inachever une œuvre: lecture de Fragments d’un discours amoureux”. 
  5. Francesca Cadel (Calgary): “War as a Permanent Civil War after World War II: The Unfinished of History in Pasolini’s Petrolio”

Organizing Committee:
Jacqueline Fabre-Serris, University of Lille
Marco Formisano, Ghent University
Antonios Rengakos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki & Academy of Athens
Stavros Frangoulidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

For further information, please contact:
Stavros Frangoulidis (frango@lit.auth.gr)

The organizers would like to acknowledge the kind and generous support of: