Tuesday 25 April 2017 ⋅ Seminar “Ancient Literature in Translation” (ANT2700/4700)
Heroes and Sacrifice in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Blindern Campus, Georg Morgenstiernes Hus, room n. 152
10:15–11:00 Valentina Zanusso: Folkloric Motives and Literary References in Ovid’s Birth of Heracles (Met. 9.281–323)
11:00–11:15 Break
11:15–12:00 Nicoletta Canzio: "‘Tis the Daughter of Priam and not a Captive Who Asks it": Polyxena’s Episode in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (13.439–480)
Wednesday 26 April 2017 ⋅ Research Seminar
The Greek Theatre and Human Sacrifice: On and Off Stage
Blindern Campus, Georg Morgenstiernes Hus, room n. 206
9:30-9:45 Silvio Bär: Introduction
9:45-10:45 Valentina Zanusso: Iphigeneia Beyond the Stage: The Development of the Myth from Euripides to Dictys Cretensis
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00 Nicoletta Canzio: "I Shall Be Always Called ‘Maiden": Some Considerations about Polyxena’s Fate on and off Stage
Both arrangements are open to the general public, and all Greek and Latin texts will be accompa- nied by an English translation.
Contact: Prof. Silvio Bär (silvio.baer@ifikk.uio.no)