Program

15.3.2013
09:30 - 09:45
Introduction
Liba Taub
09:45 - 10:30
Varro's Divine Comedy: Menippean Satire in the Divine Antiquities
Leah Kronenberg
10:30 - 11:15
Mega-Compilations: Observations about a Neglected Genre of Ancient Technical Writing
Markus Dubischar
11:45 - 12:30
Ethnic vegetables: reading ancient botanical texts with a historian's eye
Laurence Totelin
12:30 - 13:15
Poetry or 'prose in iambic meter'?
Issues of genre in Appolodoros's Chronika and the recipes by Servilius Damocrates
Sabine Vogt
14:30 - 15:15
The Pseudo-Aristotelian problems and the 'problemata' genre
Mike Coxhead
15:15 - 16:00
Zetematic structures in Plutarch
Jan Pol Opsomer
16:30 - 17:30
Final Discussion
Jochen Althoff