Lucilius colloquium in Amherst, Mass. October 25, 2013
From Brian Breed: Lucilius colloquium in Amherst, Mass. October 25, 2013. The Department of Classics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with the support of the UMass College of Humanities and Fine Arts and the Departments of Classics of Amherst College, Mt. Holyoke College, and Smith College, will host a one-day colloquium on the theme “Speaking of the Republic: Lucilius and his Contexts,” Friday, October 25, 2013. Speakers are Anna Chahoud (Trinity College Dublin), “Colloquial Registers and Generic Stylization in Lucilius”; Sander Goldberg (UCLA), “Lucilius and the poetarum seniorum turba”; Angelo Mercado (Grinnell College), “Notes on Meter and Language in Lucilius”; and Brian Breed (UMass Amherst), “Lucilius’ Books.” The full conference program can be viewed at http://umass.academia.edu/BrianWBreed/Events. A registration fee of $20 includes lunch and refreshments. Dinner is also available…