January 29th, 2025 I 14:00 - 18:30
14:00 Cecilia Nobili e Tullia Spinedi (Università degli studi di Bergamo)
Welcome and Introduction
14:15 1st Keynote Lecture
Ettore Cingano (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia)
From Epic to Lyric: Female Voices and Their Paths in Archaic Greece
Panel 1 - The poet and the community: local traditions
Chair: Tullia Spinedi (Università degli studi di Bergamo)
15:00 Stefano Fanucchi (SNS Pisa)
The Mapping of Argos: Reading Telesilla in the Light of Panhellenic Song
15:30 Flora Manakidou (Democritus University of Thrace)
Telesilla and the Women of Argos
16:00 Discussion
16.30 Coffee break
Chair: Paolo Cesaretti, Università degli studi di Bergamo
17:00 Sarah Cullinan Herring (University of Kansas)
Corinna’s Singing Mountains: A Defence against Parochialism
17:30 Flavia Licciardello (Università di Bologna)
Helicon, Corinna and an Epigram from Thespiae (IThesp. 274)
18:00 Discussion
January 30th, 2025 I 9:00 - 17:30
Panel 2 - Relationship with the (male) poetic tradition
Chair: Cecilia Nobili (Università degli studi di Bergamo)
9:00 Thomas Nelson (St Hilda's College, Oxford)
Corinna and the Shield of Athena (667 PMG)
9:30 Henrike Arnold (Philipps-University Marburg)
ἱώνει δ’ εἱρώων ἀρετὰς χεἰρωάδων – Let’s Compete with Men!
10:00 Discussion
10:30 Coffee break
Panel 3 - Circulation and reception
Chair: Lucia Floridi (Università di Bologna)
11:00 Tiziano Presutti (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)
L’Adone sciocco. Storia e tradizione di un proverbio e di un’ode (Zen. Ath. 3.159 e Praxill. fr. 747 Page)
11:30 Morena Deriu (Università degli Studi di Cagliari)
Telesilla: Warrior Poetess in Imperial Culture
12:00 Flavia Vasconcellos Amaral (University of Winnipeg)
‘The Nine Muses that Earth Gave Birth’. Praising, Merely Listing, or Forging a Female Canon of Poets?
12:30 Discussion
13:00 Lunch
Panel 4 - Legendary biographies
Chair: Andrea Capra (Università degli Studi di Milano)
14:30 Irene Bianchi (Università degli Studi di Urbino)
Poetesse “minori”? Indagine su alcune notizie biografiche
15:00 Giulia Maria Chiesi (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Riscoprire Cleitagora
15:30 Maria Navarro López (Universitat de Barcelona)
Telesilla’s Life: Compositional Devices of a (not so) Feminine Lifepath
16:00 Discussion
16:30 2nd Keynote Lecture
Giovan Battista D'Alessio (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)
Female Poetry and Female Voices for Adonis