Homer and Herodotus: A Reappraisal. Newcastle University

Venue: Robert Boyle Lecture Theatre, Armstrong Building

13:00 Introduction
13:15 Keynote speaker: Christopher Pelling (Oxford), Homeric and Herodotean intertextuality: what’s the point?
14:00 Maria Fragoulaki (Cardiff), Narrative and experience of the human body in war: Homer and Herodotus
14:40 Pietro Vannicelli (Sapienza, Rome), Homer in Progress: Aeschylus and Herodotus on Xerxes’ expedition against Greece
15:20 Coffee Break
16:00 Giulia Donelli (Bristol), Truth, Fiction, and Authority in Herodotus’ Book 8
16:40 Massimo Giuseppetti (Roma Tre), Herodotus’ Epic Voices: Homeric and non-Homeric Epic in the Histories
17:20 Adrian Kelly (Oxford), Homeric fear and fascination: Herodotus and the rest
18:00 Discussion

Tuesday, 5 March
09:00 Thomas Harrison (St Andrews), Herodotus, Homer, and the character of the gods
09:40 Joseph Skinner (Newcastle), Homer, Herodotus and Greek identity
10:20 Coffee Break
11:00 Vasiliki Zali-Schiel (Liverpool), The Homeric backdrop of Herodotus’ rhetoric: adaptation and innovation
11:40 Olga Tribulato (Venice), Homer and Herodotus: the linguistic perspective
12:20 Ivan Matijašić (Newcastle), Herodotus, “the prose Homer of history”
13:00 Concluding Remarks

Attendance to the workshop is free and all are welcome. If you are interested, please contact Dr Ivan Matijasic by email.