Dear all,
With this, we are happy to announce the next Ancient World Seminar. On
Monday 2
9 January 201
8
dr. Casper C. de Jonge (Leiden University) will give a lecture on:
*Greek Scholars in Rome: Cultural Interactions in Rhetoric and Literary
Criticism*
*Abstract*
Parthenius of Nicaea, Philodemus of Gadara, Dionysius of Halicarnassus,
Caecilius of Caleacte and (Pseudo-)Longinus: in the first century BC and AD
many Greek scholars came to Italy, where they taught Roman students and
wrote scholarly treatises on style, poetry or rhetoric. Modern scholars who
study these Greek authors and their literary theories usually present them
as part of a Greek tradition: their views are typically interpreted by
relating them to earlier — Greek — observations of Plato, Aristotle,
Theophrastus, the Stoics, or the Alexandrian grammarians, in whose
tradition they clearly stand. But how are the texts of these Greek critics
related to contemporary texts in Latin? This paper will discuss various
types of interaction between Greek literary criticism and Latin texts,
including both rhetorical theory (Cicero, Quintilian) and poetry (Virgil,
Horace). Such Graeco-Roman interactions cast new light on the literary and
intellectual discourse of Late Republican and Early Imperial Rome.
Casper C. de Jonge is Lecturer of Ancient Greek at Leiden University. He
received his PhD from the same university in 2006. He was a visiting
research fellow at Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies (2008) and the
Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies in Princeton (2012). His research
focuses on ancient Greek rhetoric and literary criticism, the history of
grammar and scholarship, and Greek intellectuals in Rome. He received
grants from the Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research (NWO) for
projects on ‘The Sublime in Context’ (2010-2013, Veni) and ‘Greek Criticism
and Latin Literature’ (2014-2019, Vidi). In 2008 he published *Between
Grammar and Rhetoric. Dionysius of Halicarnassus on Language, Linguistics
and Literature *(Leiden / Boston: Brill). He was the editor of the Dutch
classics journal *Lampas* (2009-2015). With Piet Gerbrandy he published a
Dutch translation of Aristotle’s *Poetics* (Groningen 2017).
The session takes place in the Courtroom of the Faculty of Theology and
Religious Studies, Groningen, 16.15 – 17.30.
Join us for drinks afterwards!
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Eelco Glas
PhD candidate in Theology and Religious Studies
on behalf of the CRASIS team
University of Groningen
CRASIS is the Groningen institute for Interdisciplinary Studies in Culture,
Religion and Society of the Ancient World. Follow CRASIS on Facebook
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