Parallel sessions A 10–J 10 (Fri, 11 Jul, 12:00)

A 10 – Christianizing the Classical Epic: A Study of Latin Hagiographical Epics (10th–15th Centuries)

  1. Epic Virtue: Hrotsvitha’s Portrayal of Saint Agnes’ Martyrdom (Krzysztof Bekieszczuk)
  2. Transforming Hagiography Into a New Aeneid – Maffeo Vegio’s Antoniad (Mariusz Plago)
  3. The Vitae of Holy Men by Baptista Mantuanus as an Example of Christian Epic (Elżbieta Górka)

B 10 – Oral Tradition as a Picture of the Oral Culture

  1. Rhetoric at the Border of Oral and Textual Culture – Identity of Audiences in Political and Judicial Speech in 4th Century BC Athens (Joanna Janik)
  2. Why Is Homeric World in Fact Egalitarian? (Karol Zieliński)

C 10 – Sacred Making in the Ancient Greco-Roman World

  1. Processing, Handling, Making: Material Transformation as a Crucial Aspect of Greek Religious Practice (Katie Rask)
  2. Temple Construction and Divine Presence in Statius’ Silvae 3.1 (Bettina Reitz-Joosse, Saskia Peels-Matthey)
  3. Mortal Makers, Sacral Things: Representations of Sacred Making in Roman Visual Culture (Jordan Rogers)

D 10 – The Monumenta Poloniae Lithuaniaeque Latina (MPLL) Project

  1. Monumenta Poloniae Lithuaniaeque Latina: History, aims, and scope (Gościwit Malinowski)
  2. Eques polonus sum, Latīnē loquor: Prevalence of Latin in post‐medieval Poland (Jan Oko)

E 10 – Death of the Poet

  1. Dead Poets Society: Mortality and Immortality in Aulus Gellius’ Attic Nights (Katarzyna Ochman)
  2. The Double Drowning of Menander: Vita Terenti 5 and the Early Roman Literary Canon (Katarzyna Pietruczuk)
  3. The Death of Euripides and the Pattern of Poetic Sparagmos: a Study in Biographical Fiction (Camila de Moura)

F 10 – Opuscula Mediaevalia

  1. The Role of the Manuscript Fragments in Research on the Oldest History of the Book in Poland (Marcin Starzyński)
  2. Thomas of Wrocław (1297-1378) and his Collectorium secundum alphabetum (1360) (Peter Murray Jones)

G 10 – Translating Stobaios: New Translation and Directions of Study

  1. Intellectual History of Late Antiquity as Reflected in Stob. 1.49 – On the Soul (Mateusz Kula)
  2. Atheistic Poet on Greek Piety and Customs in Stobaios (Bartłomiej Dudek)
  3. (Re)Creating Canons: The Poetic Passages in Book III of Stobaios and the Literary Canon(s) of Antiquity (Aleksandra Klęczar)

H 10 – The Underworld as a Crossroad: Narrative, Myth, and Cultural Exchange

  1. The Underworlds of Trophonios (Renaud Gagné)
  2. A Handful of Dust? Satan and Hades in the Epic Underworld (Emma Greensmith)
  3. Disrupting Hades: (Re)Organising the Underworld in the Poem of the Sinai Palimpsest (Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui)