“Narrative Approaches to the Lives of Ancient Greek Poets”
Call for Papers
“Narrative Approaches to the Lives of Ancient Greek Poets”
Ghent University, Belgium, January 16-17, 2025.
Lives of famous and less famous ancient Greek poets have proven to be a treasure trove of
inspiration for authors and other artists across different times and cultures from Antiquity
onwards. Texts as diverse as, for example, the pseudo-Herodotean Life of Homer, the Contest
of Homer and Hesiod, the Mnesiepes inscription on Archilochus, the anonymous Lives of Greek
tragedians, the dialogic Life of Euripides by Satyrus of Callatis, and the brief biographical
entries on Greek poets in the Suda, make up a rich corpus that attests for a continuous interest
in the Greek poet as a living character throughout the centuries.
In recent decades, scholarship on these Lives has increasingly turned from questions of
historicity to different aspects of their narrative construction and to examining how such aspects
relate to aetiological, (meta)literary or other functions. Scholars have thus opened up new
directions in interpreting and evaluating these fascinating texts. Our workshop inscribes itself
in this recent trend and aims to investigate and discuss different aspects underlying the
construction of these texts as narratives.
We welcome abstracts on one or more ancient, late antique, or medieval Live(s) or biographical
tradition(s) on ancient Greek poets and any aspect of their narrative construction, including but
not limited to:
• Heroization
• Characterization
• Narrative patterns
• Rhetorical constructions
• Anecdotes
• Biographical epigrams
• Fiction and fictionality
Abstracts of c. 300 words for c. 30-minute papers should be sent to Camila de Moura
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Place: Sint-Baafshuis, Ghent, Belgium
Dates: January 16-17, 2025
Organisers: Camila de Moura and Koen De Temmerman (Ghent University)
“Narrative Approaches to the Lives of Ancient Greek Poets”
Ghent University, Belgium, January 16-17, 2025.
Lives of famous and less famous ancient Greek poets have proven to be a treasure trove of
inspiration for authors and other artists across different times and cultures from Antiquity
onwards. Texts as diverse as, for example, the pseudo-Herodotean Life of Homer, the Contest
of Homer and Hesiod, the Mnesiepes inscription on Archilochus, the anonymous Lives of Greek
tragedians, the dialogic Life of Euripides by Satyrus of Callatis, and the brief biographical
entries on Greek poets in the Suda, make up a rich corpus that attests for a continuous interest
in the Greek poet as a living character throughout the centuries.
In recent decades, scholarship on these Lives has increasingly turned from questions of
historicity to different aspects of their narrative construction and to examining how such aspects
relate to aetiological, (meta)literary or other functions. Scholars have thus opened up new
directions in interpreting and evaluating these fascinating texts. Our workshop inscribes itself
in this recent trend and aims to investigate and discuss different aspects underlying the
construction of these texts as narratives.
We welcome abstracts on one or more ancient, late antique, or medieval Live(s) or biographical
tradition(s) on ancient Greek poets and any aspect of their narrative construction, including but
not limited to:
• Heroization
• Characterization
• Narrative patterns
• Rhetorical constructions
• Anecdotes
• Biographical epigrams
• Fiction and fictionality
Abstracts of c. 300 words for c. 30-minute papers should be sent to Camila de Moura
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Place: Sint-Baafshuis, Ghent, Belgium
Dates: January 16-17, 2025
Organisers: Camila de Moura and Koen De Temmerman (Ghent University)