Tagung: Cicero: Orator et Poeta

Cicero: Orator et Poeta – Cicero’s Use of and reflection on Poetry

Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (12­–13/05/2025)

We are delighted to announce the two-day international conference ‘Cicero: Orator et Poeta ­– Cicero’s Use of and reflection on Poetry’, which will take place at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg on 12^th and 13^th May 2025. The event is generously sponsored by the Fritz-Thyssen Foundation. Its scope is to investigate Cicero’s poetic profile in the social and political context of late Republican Rome.

Information about the programme is available below. The conference will be live streamed via Zoom and the link will be made available on this page in due course. For information, please contact the organisers Leonardo Costantini (leonardo.costantini@bristol.ac.uk) and Stefan Tilg (stefan.tilg@altphil.uni-freiburg.de).

Programme

Day 1: Monday 12^th May 2025

Introduction

Session 1, chair: Stefan Tilg (Freiburg)

C. Bishop (Texas Tech): Cicero’s Sirius: The Dog Star from Greece to Rome 

A. Magnavacca (UCY): Cicero’s lifelong fidelity to Aratus

Session 2, chair: L. Costantini (Bristol)

B. Zimmermann (Freiburg): Cicero tragicus. Cicero als Übersetzer griechischer Tragiker

J. Klooster (Groningen): Cicero's choice for epic poetry in light of the Greek models of poetry and leadership

Day 2: Tuesday 13^th May 2025

Session 3, chair: Dominic Berry (Edinburgh)

G. Manuwald (UCL): Cicero and the fragments of Roman Republican tragedy

C. Steel (Glasgow): Cicero v. Archias: differing models of political poetry in the late Republic

Session 4, chair: Ermanno Malaspina (Turin)

L. Costantini (Bristol): Civic poetry and self-celebration. The scope (and limits) of Cicero’s De Consulatu Suo.

J. Dugan (Buffalo): Textual materiality in/and Cicero’s De Consulatu Suo

Roundtable Discussion