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 (Werthmannstraße 8, Vorderhaus, Raum R01009). 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 via this link. 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

10:00-10:15 Welcome

10:15-12:15 Session 1, chair: Stefan Tilg (Freiburg)

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

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

14:00-16:00 Session 2, chair: Leonardo Costantini (Bristol)

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

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

Day 2: Tuesday 13^th May 2025

10:00-12:00 Session 3, chair: Dominic Berry (Edinburgh)

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

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

14:00-16:00 Session 4, chair: Ermanno Malaspina (Turin)

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

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

16:00-16:15             Closing remarks