This event is part of the series New Work in the Arts & Humanities: American Classics.

The title of this conference reflects the fact that 2017 marks the two thousandth anniversary of the poet’s own death. This is a conventional reckoning: nothing in Ovid's poetry can be dated after AD 17, but we have no external evidence about when he died, and the alludes both to this and to other uncertainties regarding death as a theme in Ovid’s poetry. In his love poetry, Ovid does not share the often morbid fascination with death that characterizes his elegiac predecessors, Tibullus and Propertius. In his later poetry, death takes different forms, including bodily metamorphosis, literary canonization, and political exile. The conference will focus on these and related aspects, including the earliest stages of Ovid’s posthumous reception.

The conference is organized in collaboration with Sapienza Università di Roma. The first day (March 9) of the three-day conference will be held at the American Academy in Rome. The second and third days (March 10–11) at Sapienza Università di Roma.

March 9, 2017
American Academy in Rome
Via Angelo Masina, 5
Sala Conferenze

March 10, 2017
Sapienza Università di Roma
Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5
Odeion, Facoltà di Letteree Filosofia

March 11, 2017
Sapienza Università di Roma
Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5
​Aula I, Facoltà di Letteree Filosofia

Participants: Alessandro BARCHIESI, Bettina BERGMANN, Francesca Romana BERNO, Alessandro BETORI, Emma BUCKLEY, Sergio CASALI, Andrea CUCCHIARELLI, Jacqueline FABRE-SERRIS, Joseph FARRELL, Laurel FULKERSON, Luigi GALASSO, Philip HARDIE, Stephen HINDS, Alison KEITH, Florence KLEIN, Mario LABATE, Giuseppe LA BUA, John MILLER, Damien NELIS, Ellen OLIENSIS, Bettina REITZ JOOSE, Gianpiero ROSATI, Alessandro SCHIESARO, Alison SHARROCK, Thea THORSEN, Katharina VOLK, Anke WALTER

Papers will be given in English and Italian. On March 9, you can watch this event live at https://livestream.com/aarome.

The organizers are: Joe Farrell, University of Pennsylvania (2013 Resident); Alessandro Schiesaro, University of Manchester; Damien Nelis, University of Geneva; and John Miller, University of Virginia.