The Classics Department of the University of Athens is hosting a one-day Conference entitled:
«Rhetoric and Literary Genres in Ancient Greece and Rome»
The Conference will be held on Friday, 9 May 2008, at 18:00 - 21:00, in the Propylaia Hall of the University of Athens (30, Panepistimiou st).
The program is as follows:
Bernhard ZIMMERMANN (Universit"at Freiburg): Rhetoric and Critique of Rhetoric in the Drama of the 5th century BC.
Christopher CRAIG (University of Tennessee): The Courtroom Speech as Literary Genre: the reader’s experience of rhetoric in Cicero’s Pro Roscio Amerino.
Jacqueline DANGEL (Universit'e de la Sorbonne-Paris IV): Genres litt'eraires et rh'etorique `a Rome : la po'etique 'epidictique dans l’Institution oratoire de Quintilien.
James MAY (St. Olaf College): Cicero’s Ideal Orator and Liberal Arts Education: Wisdom and Eloquence in the 21st century.
The event is followed by a reception at the Cultural Centre «Kostis Palamas».
All welcome.
«Rhetoric and Literary Genres in Ancient Greece and Rome»
The Conference will be held on Friday, 9 May 2008, at 18:00 - 21:00, in the Propylaia Hall of the University of Athens (30, Panepistimiou st).
The program is as follows:
Bernhard ZIMMERMANN (Universit"at Freiburg): Rhetoric and Critique of Rhetoric in the Drama of the 5th century BC.
Christopher CRAIG (University of Tennessee): The Courtroom Speech as Literary Genre: the reader’s experience of rhetoric in Cicero’s Pro Roscio Amerino.
Jacqueline DANGEL (Universit'e de la Sorbonne-Paris IV): Genres litt'eraires et rh'etorique `a Rome : la po'etique 'epidictique dans l’Institution oratoire de Quintilien.
James MAY (St. Olaf College): Cicero’s Ideal Orator and Liberal Arts Education: Wisdom and Eloquence in the 21st century.
The event is followed by a reception at the Cultural Centre «Kostis Palamas».
All welcome.