BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk// X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CRDG Symposium on "\;Greece and/or Rome"\; - Edith Hall (K CL)\, Shelley Hales (Bristol)\, Emily Kneebone (Cambridge)\, Jennifer Wall ace (Cambridge)\, Ingo Gildenhard (Cambridge) DTSTART:20130504T093000Z DTEND:20130504T153000Z UID:TALK44438@talks.cam.ac.uk CONTACT:32808 DESCRIPTION:Registration is now open for this event - please email Helen R oche (hber2@cam.ac.uk) and Clare Foster (clef3@cam.ac.uk) if you would lik e to attend. Attendance is free\, but places are limited\, so we would rec ommend booking your place as soon as possible.\n\n\n_Where does 'Greece' e nd and 'Rome' begin? Can we imagine a Greece without taking Rome into acco unt? Can we imagine a Rome without a Greece?_\n\nThe term 'classics' gener ally construes Graeco-Roman antiquity (or at least its afterlife) as a uni fied whole. We often tend to take this conflation just as much for granted as the dissolution of the cross-cultural hybrid into its constituent part s. This symposium will explore the historical and ideological factors behi nd constructions of 'Greece' and 'Rome'\, both as historical entities and as resonant ideas.\n\n- What stories lie behind the adjective 'Graeco-Roma n'?\n- Where and when did ideas of 'Rome' and 'Greece' as reified construc ts begin\, and what was their impact?\n- Where was 'Greece' in the Latin W est during the Middle Ages and early Renaissance?\n- When\, and by whom\, has Roman culture been seen as a reception of Greek culture?\n- What are s ome of the historical consequences of seeing Greece and Rome as either sep arate\, or a single entity?\n- How and where does hierarchy and chronologi cal sequence become important?\n\nIn this interdisciplinary workshop\, Rob in Osborne\, Edith Hall\, Shelley Hales\, Emily Kneebone\, Jennifer Wallac e and Ingo Gildenhard will offer a mixture of papers and presentations int ended to spark in-depth discussion\, concluding with a summing-up panel in volving all speakers. A provisional timetable can be found below.\n\n----- -----------------\nREGISTRATION (10.00-10.30am)\n\n10.30 - Robin Osborne ( Cambridge\, Classics) - Introduction\n\n10.45 - Edith Hall (King's College London: Classics) - "Libraries were good for Latin poetry and very bad fo r Greek: discuss". Hall proposes that Greek poetry stopped being creative only two generations of poets after Ptolemy I built the library at Alexand ria. However\, both the idea of a library\, and the availability of librar y facilities\, arguably seem to have fuelled some of the best poetry in cu ltural history - amongst Latin-speakers. \n\n11.30 - COFFEE BREAK\n\n11.4 5 - Shelley Hales (Bristol: Classics). An informal workshop exploring some of the different ideas of 'Greekness' available in Roman art\, such as wa llpainting\, taking some cues from the image and concept of the mask\, and Ovid's genealogies of art (facilitated by Clare Foster).\n\n12.30 - LUNCH BREAK\n\n13.30 - Emily Kneebone (Cambridge: Classics) will address how co ncepts of 'Greece' and 'Greekness' operate in the Greek literature of the first centuries AD\, in relation both to Rome and to non-Greek areas of th e Greek-speaking Roman Empire.\n\n14.15 - Jennifer Wallace (Cambridge: Eng lish). Wallace will share some insights from the forthcoming Introduction to the Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature 1780-18 80\, in which she and Norman Vance (as co-editors) debate many of the issu es raised in this symposium.\n\n15.00 - TEA BREAK\n\n15.15 - Ingo Gildenha rd (Cambridge: Classics) - ‘Cultures in dialogue – three case studies: Cicero\, Ovid & the Bible\, and Hannah Arendt’. Gildenhard will try to situate the Greece vs. Rome polarity within wider frames of reference\, in cluding other cultures that had a formative impact on western civilization .\n\n16.00 - Summing up discussion (including all speakers).\n\n16.45 - en d of symposium LOCATION:Classics Faculty\, Room G.21 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR