Rhetoric and Poetics

The Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop


This workshop is concerned with the literature and poetry of classical Greece and Rome, considered either in their own terms or in relation to the literature and poetry of other cultures. It invites presentation of critical arguments completed or in progress, and from the broadest possible range of perspectives.

The workshop meets on alternate Thursdays at 3:30 p.m. in Classics 26, unless otherwise noted.
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Spring 2009

4/2 (4:30pm)
Rick Griffiths (Amherst College, Classics and Women's and Gender Studies)
"Quagmire: Mud and Prophecy in Apollonius' 'Argonautica'"

4/30
Geoffrey Benson (University of Chicago, Classics)
"Archimedes' Cattle of the Sun and the Limits of Euhemerism"

5/7
Seth Schein (University of California Davis, Classics and Comparative Literature)
"Toward a Commentary on Sophocles' 'Philoktetes'"

5/28
Ursula Bergstrom (University of Chicago, Classics)
"Speaking Untruth to Power in Callimachus' Hymn to Zeus"





Faculty Sponsors

Mark Payne
Sarah Nooter

Student Coordinator

Jessica Seidman



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University of Chicago Department of Classics