Hellenistic Poetry before Callimachus
9:00am - 6:00pm /
Tuesday 14th June 2016
/ Venue: School of the Arts Library, 19 Abercromby Square Abercromby SQ (West)
Type: Conference /
Category: Research
- Guendalina Taietti
- Suitable for: Students and academic staff with an interest in this subject.
- Admission: The conference is free of charge but please use our online shop to register: http://payments.liv.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&deptid=38&catid=45&prodid=1453
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Organised by the Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool and the Instytut Filologii Klasycznej of the University of Warsaw, this two-day conference on 14 and 15 June 2016, is made possible by the generous support of the Postgate Fund, the Warsaw Faculty of Polish Studies, and the Warsaw Institute of Classical Philology.
Our conference is an unprecedentedly ambitious attempt to sketch a picture of the lost generations of the poets active during the last two decades of the fourth century and the first two decades of the third. We undertake to approach Philitas, Simias, Phoenix, Crates, and Timon and the whole gamut of their obscure contemporaries, genre by genre. We aim to discuss a number of thorny issues, among which the chronology and circulation of early Hellenistic poetry; the role these two generations played as forerunners of Hellenistic poetry and intermediaries between the tradition(s) of late Classical poetry and the new voices of Hellenistic poetry; and the larger implications for our (brittle) attempts of periodization. This pioneering venture into the origins of ‘Hellenistic-ness’ will help illuminate the shadowy and mysterious realms of Hellenistic poetry before Callimachus.Learn more at the conference website.
Our conference is an unprecedentedly ambitious attempt to sketch a picture of the lost generations of the poets active during the last two decades of the fourth century and the first two decades of the third. We undertake to approach Philitas, Simias, Phoenix, Crates, and Timon and the whole gamut of their obscure contemporaries, genre by genre. We aim to discuss a number of thorny issues, among which the chronology and circulation of early Hellenistic poetry; the role these two generations played as forerunners of Hellenistic poetry and intermediaries between the tradition(s) of late Classical poetry and the new voices of Hellenistic poetry; and the larger implications for our (brittle) attempts of periodization. This pioneering venture into the origins of ‘Hellenistic-ness’ will help illuminate the shadowy and mysterious realms of Hellenistic poetry before Callimachus.Learn more at the conference website.