Greek and Latin Medeas:

The Dramatic Sounds of Euripides and Seneca

APA - 2013 Seattle

Organizer: Andrew S. Becker, Virginia Tech and Chris Ann Matteo, Independent Scholar

Sponsored by the Society for the Oral Reading of Greek and Latin Literature

This panel will treat the dramatic verses of two Medeas: that of Euripides and Seneca's later version. Whether measured in Greek iambic trimeter, or in the Latin senarius, both performances elicit distinct dramatic effects. We hope to solicit new contributions from scholars and performers interested in exploring rhythmical, metrical, or any other sonic/acoustic aspects of the language of the plays (or other plays for comparanda). Questions could include (meant to by suggestive, not limiting): What relation do rhythm and sound have to other elements of theatrical production? When, where, and how does meter and rhythm influence the effects of passages in the plays? To what degree can translations hope to recall the Euripidean or Senecan rhythms and sounds in versions that would be stageworthy?

Presenters are expected to illustrate their arguments and enliven the delivery of their papers by performing aloud relevant passages. Abstracts should be sent as attachments to Andrew S. Becker (Virginia Tech, Cette adresse email est protégée contre les robots des spammeurs, vous devez activer Javascript pour la voir. ) by: March 1, 2012.

Abstracts must be no more than one page and contain no indication of authorship. In accordance with APA regulations, all abstracts for papers will be read anonymously by three outside readers. Please follow the instructions for the format of individual abstracts on the APA's web site.

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Going Green: The Emergence of Bucolic in Augustan Rome

APA - Seattle 2013

Organizers: Jeffrey M. Hunt and Alden Smith, Baylor University

The notion of bucolic as received by the Augustans was variable. Even as a strain of Hellenistic imitators undertook the codification of imagery in Theocritus' bucolic world, more innovative approaches to bucolic continued to evolve throughout the Hellenistic era. In the Augustan period, Virgil adapted the genre to fit his own idiosyncrasies, as is especially apparent in his integration of Theocritean rusticity with contemporary urban issues. The reemergence of the genre and its themes in the Augustan period was challenged and enhanced by other Augustan poets, particularly elegists such as Cornelius Gallus, who figures prominently in Virgil's Eclogues and likely employed rustic settings in his elegiac verse. Virgil's great addition, of course, was to invest the genre's green themes with urban concerns, a theme that emerges in the corpus already in the firstEclogue. The direction that the goatherds travel in E. 9 (in urbem) is further evidence of a new direction for the genre, which now paradoxically moves toward the city.

Logeion: A Journal of Ancient Theatre

Nouvelle revue papier et en ligne

«Logeion: A Journal of Ancient Theatre» publishes original scholarly articles in modern Greek, English, French, German, and Italian on every aspect of ancient Greek and Roman theatre and drama, including its reception in modern theatre, literature, cinema and the other art forms and media, as well as its relation to the theatre of other periods and geographical regions. All types of methodological approaches and theoretical perspectives are welcome. Emphasis will be placed on interdisciplinary approaches.

The Journal will be printed at the end of each calendar year by Crete University Press as a consecutively paginated issue. Prior to the publication of each year's printed issue, the Journal will be published as a freely accessible (Open Access), provisionally paginated PDF document in order both to ensure that articles are published relatively quickly, and to allow authors to benefit from readers' responses before the final printing. For the printed issue authors will be able to make minor revisions to the main text of the electronic version or append addenda to their articles.

Télécharger les articles sur le site de la revue.

George Hardin Brown et Linda Ehrsam Voigts (éd.), The Study of Medieval Manuscripts of England. Festschrift in Honor of Richard W. Pfaff, Turnhout, 2011.

Éditeur : Brepols
Collection : Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (ASMAR 35)
IX+438 p., 23 b/w ill.
ISBN : 978-2-503-53383-4
60 €

This volume contains sixteen important studies by widely respected scholars dealing with manuscripts produced in England in the Middle Ages.

The Study of Medieval Manuscripts of England: Festschrift in Honor of Richard Pfaff, edited by George Hardin Brown and Linda Ehrsam Voigts, consists of sixteen important studies, all dealing with manuscripts produced in medieval England. The first group reflects the meticulous analysis of liturgical manuscripts that characterize the honorand's career. These treat both early and late medieval liturgical concerns and include liturgy for Gilbertine lay brothers, a lost treatise by Amalarius, the re-working of an Anglo-Saxon Gospel book; the music for the Vigil of St. Thomas Becket; and the continuity of Processions from Old Sarum to Salisbury Cathedral. Two studies examine the liturgies having to do with saints in Sarum missals and breviaries. The second, historical, section of this volume includes three studies on Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. Six other analyses concern the high and later Middle Ages: an illuminated crusade manuscript; codicological evidence for revising the traditional dates associated with Gilbertus Anglicus's life and writing; evidence for Bishop William Reed's collection and donation of books to Oxford colleges in the later fourteenth century; anomalous writings in a sermon codex; the records of the private incomes of monks at Westminster Abbey; and a catalogue and analysis of medieval manuscripts containing moral philosophy.

Gianpaolo Urso (éd.), Dicere Laudes. Elogio, comunicazione, creazione del consenso, Pise, 2011.

Éditeur : Edizioni ETS
Collection : I convegni della Fondazione Niccolo' Canussio (10)
400 pages
ISBN : 9788846730855
22 €

Atti del convegno internazionale Cividale del Friuli, 23-25 settembre 2010

La ricerca del consenso è un obiettivo che il potere di norma (anche se non sempre) persegue, e i modi della sua creazione si esplicano per lo più non solo mediante iniziative promosse e organizzate dall'alto, ma anche attraverso proposte autonomamente elaborate da un'élite sociale e intellettuale (specie quella gravitante attorno alla 'corte') che ambisce ad avere un ruolo di mediazione e a svolgere una funzione in una certa misura autenticamente politica. Un'analisi spassionata di forme letterarie e artistiche come encomi, panegirici, celebrazioni e simili, che sono tendenzialmente estranee, per non dire irrimediabilmente ostiche, al nostro gusto moderno, e una comprensione dei loro meccanismi, della loro capacità creativa sul piano socio-culturale e delle dinamiche comunicative che esse attivano, può aprire la strada a una loro valutazione più oggettiva (non arriverò a dire a un apprezzamento). E magari, com'è tradizione dei convegni della Fondazione Canussio, offrire anche qualche spunto di riflessione sulla realtà in cui ci troviamo a vivere.