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SUMMARY:All virtue\, war and honour? On the early phase of Latin literatur
 e and the evolution of a concept of play in republican Rome - Robin Kreute
 l (Classics\, University of Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Dr Stefanie Ullmann
DESCRIPTION:Speaker bio: I am a third-year Classics PhD student\, focussin
 g on Latin literature and Roman culture. Before coming to Cambridge\, I fi
 nished my teaching degree for the subjects Latin\, English and Psychology 
 in Germany. During teacher training\, I realised that constantly revising 
 the same rules of Latin grammar with mildly interested teenagers can be a 
 pain\, so now I am here 😉\n\n \nAbstract: In my talk\, I’ll present p
 ieces of my PhD project\, which revolves around a specifically Roman notio
 n of play\, and tries to combine literary analysis with the broader framew
 ork of a cultural history of the Roman republic. My focus will be on how G
 reek ways of thinking and their different social practices are transported
  to Rome by literary writers in the process of Rome’s ‘literary turn
 ’. This process of acculturation  generates an enriched\, more complex b
 ut also paradoxical Roman imagination\, in which the deep-seated ideologie
 s governing Roman culture are frequently at odds with the Greek heritage t
 hat is appropriated into a Roman frame of reference. Play is such a concep
 t that sits uneasily with many of the underlying assumptions and cultural 
 practices prevalent in Rome and yet starts bedding down in a culturally sp
 ecific way from the beginning of Rome’s interest in literary production.
  I am going to trace some of these developments by looking at texts of Pla
 utus and Lucilius\, and by giving an anticipatory snapshot of my final cas
 e study\, Cicero.
LOCATION:1 Newnham Terrace\, Darwin College
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