Conference: Flavian Campania (2015)

Flavian Campania (2015)

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)

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 Helsinki): 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): Flavian Campania

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): The pax secura of Naples (Silv. 3.5.85)

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)