15th Trends in Classics International Conference, June 27-29, 2022

A new Trends in Classics Volume by the De gruyter is on board....stay tuned

Labor Imperfectus Unfinishedness and incompleteness are a central feature of ancient Greek and Roman literature that has often been taken for granted but not deeply examined; many texts have been transmitted to us incomplete. How and to what extent has this feature of many texts influenced their aesthetic perception....

3rd day…!!!

Our Conference was completed today. A total number of 24 papers were presented during these three days. They raised many stimulating ideas and generated lively responses.

Much of the conference’s success was due to the assistance of our former and current graduate and undergraduate students under the efficient and charismatic leadership of our PhD candidate Ms.Danae Christidou and Dr. Dimitra Karamitsou.

The students that offered their precious help were the following:

Dr. Maria Leventi (UC, Santa Barbara)
Ioanna Pateraki, PhD Candidate
Umberto Fiorino, PhD Candidate
Michael Delatolas
Marianthi Doanoulaki
Spyros Ganas
George Katirtzis
Eleonora Mylli
Panagiotis Sotiroudis
Stylianos Tsiakmakis
Menelaos Vezyrtzis
Vasilis Karanikolas
Dimitris Valachis and
TasosTarenidis

Many thanks were deserved also to Professors Evina Sistakou and Kostas Arampaslis for their willingness to offer their help before and during the Conference.

Warmest thanks also must go to our Sponsors: The Honorable Constantine Zervas, Mayor of the City of Thessaloniki; The Welfare Foundation for the Social and Cultural affairs (KIKPE), and its vice chair Mr. Manos Dimitrakopoulos; The Aristotle University Research Committee and its chair Professor Eustratios Stylianidis, Vice Rector for Research and Lifelong Learning; The Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation, and the University Studio Press.

The Aristotle University Research Dissemination Center (KEDEA) and its PR Office Director, Mr.Dimitrios Katsouras, deserve our thanks for hosting the event and offering much needed assistance during the event.

Last but not least, we are also much indebted to Mr.George Roussos, IT System Administrator at the Office of Technological Support for Academic Activities, for placing his computer expertise at our disposal and for his tutorials when asked.

We all hope to see you at another Trends in Classics Conference in Thessaloniki in the not too distant future.

We have just started!! See you in the last day of our conference!!

2nd day..!!!

Another day of interesting presentations comes to end. A dinner is the best way to complete our beautiful journey....for today!!

See you tomorrow in the last day of our conference!

Conference is in progress...!!✏️

Many thanks to all the volunteers for their precious help !!!

Our Conference will start at 10.30...!!

1st day...!!!

Everything went perfectly in the first day of our conference! The pesentations were fascinating and the following discussions approved really fruitful!!

See you tomorrow....🙂

Conference in progress, both in person and online!!! 📖

15th Trends in Classics

Let's begin....!!!

«Labor imperfectus: Unfinished, Incomplete, Partial Texts in Classical Antiquity»

Το θέμα του συνεδρίου αφορά σε κείμενα της ελληνικής και λατινικής γραμματείας που μας έχουν παραδοθεί σε ελλιπή ή ανολοκλήρωτη μορφή. Τα κείμενα αυτά ανήκουν σε ποικίλα λογοτεχνικά είδη, μορφές λόγου, ιστορικές περιόδους και πολιτιστικά συμφραζόμενα και είναι ημιτελή για διαφορετικούς κάθε φορά λόγους. Αφενός, στο πλαίσιο της χειρόγραφης παράδοσης έχουν διασωθεί κείμενα ακρωτηριασμένα ή ελλιπή στην αρχή, τη μέση ή το τέλος τους, κυρίως λόγω φθαρμένων, λανθασμένα ανθολογημένων ή αποσπασματικών αρχετύπων. Αφετέρου, κάποια κείμενα παραμένουν ημιτελή, είτε διότι εσκεμμένα δεν ολοκληρώθηκαν ποτέ ή δεν αναθεωρήθηκαν ή δεν έτυχαν εις βάθος επιμέλειας πριν από τη δημοσίευσή τους. Εξετάζεται, επίσης, ένας επαρκής αριθμός κειμένων, τα οποία με άμεσο ή έμμεσο τρόπο θεματοποιούν το ίδιο το γεγονός της αφήγησης ως ημιτελές.

The event will be both in person and online. It is possible to attend it virtually either through our livestream or via Zoom Webinar. All times are local, GMT+3 British Summer Time + 2):

https://www.auth.gr/video/video-15o-diethnes-synedrio-tmimatos-filolog/

https://authgr.zoom.us/j/98843843084?pwd=VnlRT1lUZmZvYm9PWHhFbnFENURPQT09

(Passcode: trends2022)

Video: 15ο Διεθνές Συνέδριο Τμήματος Φιλολογίας – Σύγχρονες Τάσεις στην Κλασική Φιλολογία – ΑΡΙΣΤΟΤΕΛΕΙΟ ΠΑΝΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΙΟ ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗΣ Εκδήλωση: 15ο Διεθνές Συνέδριο Τμήματος Φιλολογίας: Σύγχρονες Τάσεις στην Κλασική Φιλολογία Προβολές: 705

Revised Program...

Monday 27 June

10.00 Efraim Kyrizidis (Deputy Mayor of Thessaloniki), Franco Montanari (Genova) and Antonios Rengakos (Thessalοniki): Welcome & Opening Address

10.15 Jacqueline Fabre-Serris (Lille) and Marco Formisano (Ghent): Introduction


10.30-12.00 Panel 1: Constitutive Unfinishedness, Chair: Theodore D. Papanghelis (Thessaloniki)

Fabio Tutrone (Palermo): “Relativizing Unfinishedness: Lucretian Textuality and Epicurean Therapy”

Philip Hardie (Cambridge): “Statius Achilleid. How to Break Off a *carmen perpetuum*”

Rita Marchese (Palermo): “Sed redeo ad formulam (Cic. Off. 3.20). Completezza e imperfezione nell’ultimo Cicerone”

12.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-18.00 Panel 2: Reading Incompleteness, Chair: David Konstan (New York University)

Evina Sistakou (Thessaloniki): “How to Read Callimachus’ Aetia and Hecale?”

Myrto Garani (Athens): “How to Walk Along a Pioneer's Fragmentary Track: Theophrastus’ Meteorological Studies?”

Jacqueline Fabre-Serris (Lille): “How to Read Hyginus’ Fabulae: Theories and Practices”

15.30-16.00 Coffee Break

Chair: Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides (Macquarie)

Evangelos Karakasis (Thessaloniki): “Calp. 6 and Eisn. 1. Lost Endings (?) and the Neronian Pastoral-dissimulatio”

John F. Miller (Virginia): “Revisiting Closure in Ovid’s Fasti”

Bettina Reitz-Joosse (Groningen): “Tacitus’s Annals and Gustav Freytag’s Die verlorene Handschrift”

Andrew Zissos (Irvine): “Intertextual Foreclosure: Reflections on the Missing Conclusion to Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica”

18.00-19.00 Wine Reception


Tuesday 28 June

10.30-12.00 Panel 3: The Fragment as Work, Chair: Giulia Sissa (UCLA)

Craig Williams (Illinois): “Fragments of Roman Sexuality in Petronius’ Satyricon: Cinaedi, Fratres, and Others”

Sylvie Thorel (Lille): “Inachever une œuvre: lecture de Fragments d’un discours amoureux”

Marco Formisano (Ghent): “‘This City Will Always Pursue You’. Rutilius Namatianus’ Impossible Return”

12.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.30 Panel 4: Completing the Incomplete, Chair: Philip Hardie (Cambridge)

David Konstan (New York): “Finishing Iphigenia in Aulis”

Stavros Frangoulidis (Thessaloniki): “Seneca’s Phoenissae: In Search of an Ending”


15.30-16.00 Coffee Break

16:00-18.00 Panel 5: The Never Ending (Hi)story, Chair: Franco Montanari (Genova)

Richard Hunter (Cambridge): “The End of the Odyssey: labor imperfectus?”

Gianfranco Agosti (Rome): “How to End an Endless Poem: The Case of Nonnus’ Dionysiaca”

Giulia Sissa (UCLA): “Platonic Endings and their Modern Echoes”

Francesca Cadel (Calgary): “War as a Permanent Civil War after World War II: The Unfinished of History in Pasolini’s Petrolio”

20.00 Conference Dinner


Wednesday 29 June

9.30-12.00 Panel 6: Imagining the Incomplete, Chair: Craig Williams (Illinois)

Laura Jansen (Bristol): “Literatura incompleta: Borges’ Classics Between World and Universe”

Paolo Felice Sacchi (Pavia): “Arrhythmic Historiography and Lost Letters: Fulgentius’s De aetatibus mundi et hominis”

10.30-11.00 Coffee Break

Chair: Sylvie Thorel (Lille)

Stéphanie Dord-Crouslé (Lyon): “Remettre en mouvement un roman inachevé: l’agenceur de «seconds volumes possibles» du projet Bouvard”

Richard Thomas (Harvard): “‘The finishin’ end is at hand’: Odds and Ends from the Bob Dylan Archive”

12.00-12.15 Jacqueline Fabre-Serris (Lille) and Marco Formisano (Ghent): Closing Remarks

12.15-14.00 Lunch

15th Trends in Classics International Conference | Τμήμα Φιλολογίας Department of Classics, Aristotle University of ThessalonikiDepartment of Literary Studies and GICS, Ghent University Faculté des Humanités, Département des Langues et Cultures Antiques, University of Lille