FLAVIAN CAMPANIA, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
September 16-18, 2015 (Naples and Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Italy)
Organizers: Antony Augoustakis (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign),
Claudio Buongiovanni (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II),
Joy Littlewood (Independent Scholar, Oxford),
and Arianna Sacerdoti (Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli)
PROGRAMME (click here for pdf)
CONFERENCE PICTURES (click here)
VIDEO FROM TGR Campania (September 18, 2015)
WEDNESDAY 16 SEPTEMBER
(Napoli, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Aula Piovani)
2.00 pm Registration
2.30-3.30 pm Plenary Session
Welcome Address by the University
G. P. Rosati (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa): Mito e laudes Campaniae in Stazio
3.30 -5.00 pm The Landscape of Campania
Arianna Sacerdoti (Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli): Semirutos … de pulvere vultus (Silv. 5.3.104): Statius, Vesuvius, and “Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder”
Darcy Krasne (University of Missouri, Columbia): The Fires of Campania: Typhoeus and the Theomachic Tradition
Nikoletta Manioti (University of St. Andrews): Inarime: The Literary Fate of a Place Name
5.00-5.30 pm Break
5.30-7.00 pm Campania in its Historical Context
Victoria Pagàn (University of Florida): Campania in the Year 69
Lauren Ginsberg (University of Cincinnati): From Bauli to Baiae: Agrippina’s Death in the Flavian Poetic Imagination
Paola Carfora (Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli): Pauper sulci cerealis: Archaeological Data from Abella (Roccarainola) in the Flavian Period
THURSDAY 17 SEPTEMBER
(S. Maria Capua Vetere, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Dipartimento di Lettere e Beni Culturali, Aula E)
9.00-10.00 am Plenary Session
Alison Keith (University of Toronto): Silius’ Cumae and its Augustan Models
10.00-10.30 am Break
10.30 am-12.30 pm Capua in Silius Italicus’ Punica
Claire Stocks (Radboud University Nijmegen): In a Land of Gods and Monsters: Images of Heaven and Hell in Silius’ Capua
Elina Pyy (University of St. Andrews): Nec luxus ullus mersaeque libidine vitae / Campanis modus: Capua as altera Roma
Raymond Marks (University of Missouri, Columbia): Hannibal’s Ovidian Sojourn: Capua in Punica 11
Michiel van der Keur (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam): The Two Faces of Capua
12.30-2.30 pm Break
2.30 pm – 3.30 pm Campania in Silius Italicus’ Punica
Marco Fucecchi (Univesità degli Studi di Udine): Images of Campania in Punica 8
Thomas Biggs (University of Georgia, Athens): Campania at War in Silius
3.30-5.00 pm Martial in Campania
Margot Neger (Universität Salzburg): Quid gaudiorum est Martialis et Baiae! Martial’s Epigrammatic Campania
Étienne Wolff (Université Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Dèfense): Martial and Campania
Rosaria Luzzi (Università telematica Internazionale UniNettuno): Hoc mihi sunt vestrae divitiae: Campania in Martial’s epigrams
FRIDAY 18 SEPTEMBER
(Napoli, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Aula Piovani)
9.00-10.00 am Plenary Session
Carole Newlands (University of Colorado, Boulder): Sirens of the Bay of Naples: Parthenope, Statius, and Sannazaro
10.00 -11.00 am Statius’ Silvae (1)
Federica Bessone (Università degli Studi di Torino): Cultural Fusion, Ethical Temper and Poetic Blend in Statius’ Ideal Campania
Cody Houseman (Emory University): Campania as a Crossroad: Allusion and Ambiguity in Statius’ Silvae 1.1 and 4. 3.
11.00 – 11.30 am Break
11.30 am – 12.30 pm
Alessandra De Cristofaro (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II): How to Write an Encomiastic Poem on the Emperor Domitian Through Roads and Marbles? (Silv. 1.1 and 4.3)
Ana Maria Lóio (University of Lisbon): Through the Past to the Future of Naples: Text and History in Silv. 4.8
12.30-2.30 pm Break
2.30–3.30 pm Statius’ Silvae (2)
Paolo Esposito (Università degli Studi di Salerno): Features of the Presence of Campania in Statius’ Silvae
Cecilia Criado (University of Santiago de Compostela):
Cecilia CRIADO (University of Santiago de Compostela): Statius and the Parthenopeia pax: Blessings (and Diseases) of Electronic Resources for Intertextuality
3.30-4.00 pm Break
4.00- 6.00 pm The Lure of Naples
Claudio Buongiovanni (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II): Rappresentazioni letterarie di Napoli in età flavia
Christopher Parrot (Providence College): Being Neapolitan in the Silvae
Anna Basile (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II): The Neapolitanus secessus in the Silvae
Ian Fielding (Exeter College, Oxford University): Statius and his Renaissance Readers: The Rediscovery of a poeta Neapolitanus
6.00-6.30 pm Conclusions
Antony Augoustakis (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Joy Littlewood (Independent Scholar, Oxford)