Nos dias 15, 16 e 17 de Novembro, terão lugar os seguintes seminários, que se organizam no âmbito da unidade curricular de Problemática dos Estudos Clássicos I (Mestrado em Estudos Clássicos), mas são abertos a toda a comunidade.

Rosalba Dimundo (Università degli Studi di Bari ‘Aldo Moro’, Itália)

Fortuna di una storia di adulterio, dalle ‘Metamorfosi’ all’oratorio musicale

15 de Novembro, 10h00m-13h00m, sala C011.B

Professor Christopher Star (Middlebury College, USA)

There will come a day: Roman Visions of the Future

16 de Novembro, 14h00m-17h00m, sala B112.H

NOVA HORA / NOVA LOCALIZAÇÃO

Professor Martin Dinter (King’s College London)

Building Domitian’s World: Martial’s Transmediality

17 de Novembro, 10h00m-13h00m, Sala B034 – Centro de Estudos Clássicos

Contamos com a presença de todos!

Terá lugar, no dia 12 de Outubro (quinta-feira), mais uma sessão dos Lisbon Classic Seminars.

Receberemos o Professor Francesco Mongelli, que apresentará um trabalho sobre banditismo na Apúlia Romana. Contamos com a vossa presença!

Various explanations have been offered for the strange trajectory of the second half of the narrative of Heliodorus’ Aethiopica, most notably the earlier theory that the author was himself an Ethiopian, and the more recent thesis that the novel was influenced by mercantile developments in the region in the fourth century. This paper will argue instead that the starting and ending point of the narrative can best be explained in terms of the idiosyncratic philosophical ideas of the Emperor Julian and Heliodorus’ numerological pointer to Charicleia’s identity as the Platonic World Soul.

Conferência do Professor Paulo de Assunção.

A trajetória histórica do leque não é fácil de ser estabelecida, tendo em conta que é uma peça que vem da Antiguidade e foi utilizada em diversas civilizações, passando por transformações variadas em função do contexto socioeconómico em que foi produzido/utilizado. No contexto chinês, o termo “shan” é utilizado para se referir a todos os tipos de leques, cada um deles com particularidades importantes. A conferência tem como objetivo discorrer sobre a história dos leques chineses – a produção e uso de leques para consumo interno na China e para o mercado de exportação “China Trade”, entre os séculos XVI e XIX.

Over the last few years, Classical Reception as a research-field has attracted the deserved attention of scholars. Nevertheless, certain specific areas, as Classical Reception in music, albeit promising, does not appear to be dealt with as thoroughly as is needed. This teaching programme focuses on several case-studies considered to be representative of different ways of adapting and rewriting ancient texts, myths and motives, especially (but not only) within the European musical theatre from the origins of melodrama as a genre to the twentieth century. Finally, one case of Classical influence, which, albeit mediated by modern European models, originates within a non-European context (Brazil), will be analysed.

About the lecturer

Tiziana Ragno is an Associate Professor of Latin Language and Literature at the Department of Humanities, University of Foggia (Italy). She teaches courses of Reception Studies on Latin culture, Culture in the Roman-Barbarian Age, Latin Literature and European Culture, Didactics of Latin.

In 2004 she earned a Ph.D. in «Scienze dell’antichità classica e cristiana, antico, tardoantico e medioevale. Storia della tradizione e della ricezione [Classical and Christian Antiquities. Ancient, Late-Ancient and Middle-Ages Culture. History of Tradition and Reception]» (University of Foggia). From 2006 to 2021 she was an Assistant Professor of Latin Language and Literature.

This symposium aims to be the first event discussing the relationship between apocalyptic expectations (regarding the end of the world) and the growth of “religious” violence in our days to take place at the University of Lisbon. This event will mark the creation of an interdisciplinary and international think tank group based at ULisboa, taking advantage of the Portuguese geopolitical strategic location to discuss the impact of eschatological expectations (prophetical, messianic, and apocalyptic) in a 21st-century religious crisis involving violence and acts of terrorism.

Speakers: Alastair Lockart, Alexandre Palma, Ana Valdez, Anathea Portier-Young, Catherine Keller, Frances Flannery, Jeremia Punt, Jesper Høgenhaven, John J. Collins, Louis Jonker, Maura Hametz e Paul Middleton.

Moderators: Alexandra Assis Rosa, Luís Nuno Rodrigues, Hermenegildo Fernandes, Raquel Beleza da Silva, Raquel Vaz-Pinto e Sofia Frade.

Website:https: //apocalypticandviolence.letras.ulisboa.pt/

Defining Old Norse saga genres: problems and perspectives

“Although in Old Norse scholarship it is customary to divide the corpus of extant sagas into genres, the current taxonomy has proven rather controversial for a number of reasons. In this talk I shall address the most relevant issues that Old Norse scholars are confronted with when it comes to investigating generic definition and generic awareness (with regard to saga literature) as well as the limits posed by the current taxonomy in dealing with such questions.”

Nota Biográfica: Massimiliano Bampi is a Professor of Germanic Philology at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. He has published widely on Nordic medieval literatures, especially on genre in Old Norse-Icelandic literature, on the role of translation in medieval Sweden, and on intertextuality in medieval Nordic multi-text manuscripts. He is currently writing a monograph on saga genres and generic hybridity.

The Lisbon Flavian Seminars commenced in 2020 as a forum for Flavian scholars to share their research ideas online during the COVID-19 pandemic. The organizers have continued the Seminars on an occasional basis for scholars who are interested in the Flavian era. In 2022 we have scheduled the following seminars:

Alessandra Tafaro (Warwick, England)

‘Martial’s Saturnalian Carnival: Epigrammatic Morsels, “Edible Inscriptions” and Epitaphic Reminiscences’

15 February 2022

Raymond Marks (Missouri, Columbia, USA)

‘Love, Transgression and Ovid in Valerius Flacuss’ Argonautica’

31 March 2022

Each session of the Lisbon Flavian Seminars is envisaged as a meeting point for all scholars who are interested in the Flavian era. All scholars who wish to participate in these online seminars are welcome to register with us. A Zoom link will be sent to all registrants a day or so prior to each seminar. You can send a request for registration to one of the organizers below. If you have previously registered for the Lisbon Flavian Seminars, you do not need to send us another request unless you have not received a response from the organizers, in which case we kindly request that you contact us again. (If you wish to remove your name from the list of registrants, you need only to send us a brief e-mail message to request this.)

We hope that these online seminars will contribute to the discussion of issues of the Flavian era, including in such areas as literature, history, and archaeology, which are of concern to scholars working in this area at a time when we are all constrained by the coronavirus from attending conferences and seminars in person.

The Lisbon Flavian Seminar is a forum for Flavian scholars to share their research ideas online during the COVID-19 pandemic. This first edition has the following seminars:

Alison Keith (Toronto, Canada)

‘Epicurean Sympathies in Martial’s Epigrams’

25 September 2020

Antony Augoustakis (Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)

‘Scenes of Death and Burial in Flavian Epic’

6 November 2020

Darcy Krasne (Columbia, USA)

‘The Curious Incident of the Dogs in the Night Sky, or Making Sense of Acastus in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica’

11 December 2020

Neil Bernstein (Ohio, USA)

‘The Battle of Cannae in the Roman Poetic Imagination’

25 January 2021

Helen Lovatt (Nottingham, England)

‘Battles in Pieces: Fragmentation, Bodies and Narrative in Martial and Silius’

29 March 2021

Peter Davis (Adelaide, Australia)

‘A Commentary on Valerius Flaccus, Book 7: Problems and Approaches’

11 May 2021

Claire Stocks (Newcastle, England)

‘Growing Up on Pomegranate Street: Domitian and Memories of Carthage in Martial and Suetonius’

7 July 2021

Each session of the Lisbon Flavian Seminars is envisaged as a meeting point for all scholars who are interested in the Flavian era. All scholars who wish to participate in these online seminars are welcome to register with us. A Zoom link will be sent to all registrants a day or so prior to each seminar. You can send a request for registration to one of the organizers below. If you have previously registered for the Lisbon Flavian Seminars, you do not need to send us another request unless you have not received a response from the organizers, in which case we kindly request that you contact us again. (If you wish to remove your name from the list of registrants, you need only to send us a brief e-mail message to request this.)

We hope that these online seminars will contribute to the discussion of issues of the Flavian era, including in such areas as literature, history, and archaeology, which are of concern to scholars working in this area at a time when we are all constrained by the coronavirus from attending conferences and seminars in person.

Queer Bromius: LGBT versions of The Bacchae

Since Graeco-Roman antiquity, Dionysus has appeared to many as the god who traces and confuses the liminality between masculine and feminine, between excess and ritual. The subversive power of Dionysus in destabilising patriarchal and gender-sexual norms lies at the very centre of Euripides’ The Bacchae. As the tragedy progresses, Pentheus, the authoritarian and patriarchal king of Thebes, gradually succumbs to the powers and seduction of the newcomer Dionysus. As a result, Pentheus dresses up as a bacchant to join the Bacchic celebration that he himself had prohibited, where he will be finally murdered and dismembered at the hands of the followers of the victorious Dionysus.

Given the gender-questioning and subversive power of Dionysus, it is not surprising that Euripides’ Dionysian tragedy has received great attention from theatre creators interested in exploring the non-heteronormative, even anti-heterosexist, potential of this ancient tragedy. In fact, just months before the Stonewall rebellion in New York, in 1969, Richard Schechner was already exploring the same-sex erotic and physical seduction of Dionysus over Pentheus in his renowned production Dionysus in 69. Since then, The Bacchae has become the most widely used and successful ancient tragedy in the broader phenomenon of LGBT stage versions of Greek tragedy, the focus of my Queer Tragedy project.

In this seminar I will explore three productions that took place at different historical moments and geographic locations to understand how The Bacchae and its queer god Dionysus have been used to expose LGBT identities, eroticism, and politics, and thus question, dismantle, and subvert heteronormative power:  Allain Rochel’s gay The Bacchae (Los Angeles, USA, 2007); Enrique Olmos de Ita’s trans/travesti Bacantes after party (Aguas Calientes, Mexico, 2019); and Gay Sweatshop’s Lesbian version of The Bacchae, Kitchen Matters (London, UK, 1990). With these three examples, and mentions and illustrations of others, it will be possible to elucidate more precisely how and why Dionysus appears as the queer god par excellence on the international LGBT stage.

The adaptations of Greek Tragedies in Latin America

The Lisbon Flavian Seminars commenced in 2020 as a forum for Flavian scholars to share their research ideas online during the COVID-19 pandemic. The organizers have continued the Seminars on an occasional basis for scholars who are interested in the Flavian era. In 2023 we have scheduled three seminars so far:

First Lisbon Flavian Seminar (January)

Speaker: Adalberto Magnavacca (University of Geneva)
Title: “‘(In)scripti Pueri, (In)scriptae Puellae’: Mimetic Desire and Intertextuality in the Corpus Priapeorum”
Date: 27 January 2023 (Friday)
Time: 17:00 (Lisbon time)

Second Lisbon Flavian Seminar (March)

Speaker: Lauren Ginsberg (Duke University)
Title: “Sites of Memory, Sites of Violence: The Catalogue of Julio-Claudian Women in the Octavia”
Date: 24 March 2023 (Friday)
Time: 17:00 (Lisbon time)

Third Lisbon Flavian Seminar (May)

Speaker: Rosario Moreno Soldevila (Pablo de Olavide University of Seville)
Title: “Women of Letters in Martial’s Epigrams”
Date: 26 May 2023 (Friday)
Time: 17:00 (Lisbon time)

Each session of the Lisbon Flavian Seminars is envisaged as a meeting point for all scholars who are interested in the Flavian era. All scholars who wish to participate in these online seminars are welcome to register with us. A Zoom link will be sent to all registrants a day or so prior to each seminar. You can send a request for registration to one of the organizers below. If you have previously registered for the Lisbon Flavian Seminars, you do not need to send us another request unless you have not received a response from the organizers, in which case we kindly request that you contact us again. (If you wish to remove your name from the list of registrants, you need only to send us a brief e-mail message to request this.)

We hope that these online seminars will contribute to the discussion of issues of the Flavian era, including in such areas as literature, history, and archaeology, which are of concern to scholars working in this area at a time when we are all constrained by the coronavirus from attending conferences and seminars in person.

Como eram os dragões representados no Norte medieval? Neste seminário, avaliaremos o imaginário destas feras míticas nas culturas escandinava e anglo-saxónica, com foco em quatro modos de representação: primeiro, o dragão como causa de terror; segundo, o seu papel como imagem do diabo; terceiro, a representação do dragão na sua natureza serpentina; por fim, e mais importantemente, a sua relação com o entesouramento.

Aula Aberta pela Professora Cláudia Cravo (Professora Auxiliar da FLUCe investigadora do CECH)

Dia 19 de outubro de 2022, das 11:00 às 12:30

Pretende-se dar a conhecer o Idílio A Feiticeira de Teócrito, realçando sobretudo dois aspectos: a exímia construção do retrato da protagonista do poema e os paralelismos que encontramos entre as práticas mágicas aí presentes e as práticas mágicas reais, que conhecemos dos papiros gregos de magia e das defixiones.

Cláudia Cravo é docente da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra e está integrada no Departamento de Línguas, Literaturas e Culturas da mesma Faculdade. É investigadora do Centro de Estudos Clássicos e Humanísticos da Universidade de Coimbra, onde é responsável pelo Projecto Complementar Artes Docendi – Investigação e Formação em Didáctica dos Estudos Clássicos. Doutorou-se, em 2008, em Literatura Grega com a tese Magia Erótica e Arte Poética no Idílio 2 de Teócrito. A sua investigação centra-se, em especial, nos temas tratados na tese de Doutoramento: magia greco-latina, sobretudo a de teor erótico, literária e não-literária; dialectos gregos; a obra de Teócrito e dos grandes poetas helenísticos em geral.

por Mestre Hélio Silva
Aula Aberta dia 30 de Setembro de 2022 às 11:00 – Sala C015

Teócrito de Siracusa passou parte da sua vida em Alexandria atraído pela riqueza, poder e prestígio da corte ptolemaica. O ambiente da Biblioteca e do Museu eram perfeitos para um homem das letras. As condições aí encontradas levaram à produção de algumas das obras mais fascinantes da literatura grega. Sem nunca esquecer os seus benfeitores, Teócrito aproveitou a sua obra para celebrar a grandeza dos seus patronos, de forma mais ou menos explícita, de acordo com a política propagandística real. Analisaremos excertos de alguns Idílios que podem ser mais relevantes para esta temática, contextualizando-os na sua época e condições de produção.

Transmissão online (Zoom)

Senha de acesso: 158303

ID da reunião: 946 7056 3648

June 22, 16:00 GMT+1
Giorgio Ferri (U. Roma – La Sapienza)
Ritual movement at Rome, a case study: the Lupercalia.

Join us at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon (Cidade Universitária):
Room B112.G

Or online:
Zoom Meeting
https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/85102092257

May 17, 17:00 GMT+1
Arlene Holmes-Henderson (U. Oxford)
Teaching Classical languages in the UK: an overview of research, policy and practice.

Zoom meeting link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9533328129?pwd=QXM3QnozY2tESWZ2MzBMcTRob3RQUT09

May 4, 16:00 GMT+1
José Carlos Miralles (U. Murcia)
Oratoria latina en la Roma de la Contrarreforma (1545-1621): una aproximación

Abstract: Nesta conferência vou tentar oferecer uma imagem panorâmica das várias formas assumidas pela eloquência latina nos séculos XVI e XVII. Neste período, desde a convocação do Concílio de Trento (1545) até à morte do Papa Paulo V (1621), assistimos em Roma a um breve mas intenso esplendor da oratória latina. Durante estes anos, a cidade de Roma, envolvida numa atmosfera de beligerância religiosa contra os ataques dos reformistas do Norte da Europa, tornou-se num dos principais palcos onde a eloquência latina foi mantida viva, não sem certas dificuldades. A nossa análise centra-se, portanto, nos discursos latinos criados e proferidos no contexto da Reforma Católica.

Zoom meeting login:

https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/81723903220?pwd=TVowVXlIU0dJWVFlbTVLZUFsZ042QT09

Meeting ID: 817 2390 3220
Pass: 207743

February 23, 15:00 GMT
Hélène Perdicoyianni-Paleologou ( U. College London)
“The concept of pyrexia in Corpus hippocraticum: the features of febrile states”

March 9, 17:00 GMT
Eleftheria Ioannidou (U. Groningen)
“The Sweet Vitality of the Dancing Bodies: Classical Embodiment and Fascist Visions in Sophocles’ Trachiniae at Syracuse in 1933″

March 23, 16:00 GMT
Isabella Bonati (North-West University, South Africa)
“Ancient voices about health and diseases from the Greek papyri rediscovered in Egypt”

April 6, 16:00 GMT+1
Valeria Lovato (U. Geneve)
“Homeric heroes in Byzantium between Thersitean intellectuals and Odyssean philosophers”

If you wish to participate in this seminar, all you need to do is to send an e-mail message with your name to centro.classicos@letras.ulisboa.pt.

Simona Marchesini (Alteritas, Verona)

“From the Frame Semantics to the Linguistic Landscape. Understanding the Meaning of Ancient Texts”

The lecture presents some heuristic tools for text comprehension, which are related to landscape linguistics. Particularly for ancient documents the understanding of the meaning of the text has to make use of any possible help coming from other disciplines. Geosemiotics, context theory and landscape phenomenology will be described with the example of some cases taken from the epigraphic situation of pre-Roman Italy.

Online, January 26, 4:00 PM (Lisbon time)

Zoom meeting login:
https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/88409019365

Meeting ID: 884 0901 9365