A Celebration of Mary Whitby

Programme 
 
10:00-10:30 - Arrival, coffee, and welcome 
 
10:30-12:30 - Panel 1. Chair: Phil Booth 
 
Claudia Rapp, Contextualizing George of Pisidia: Christian Poetry in the Changing Landscape of Late Antiquity 
 
Nadine Viermann, 'A New Image for a New Age': Contextualising George of Pisidia's Contra Severum 
 
Marina Bazzani, Homeric Language in Prodromos' Historical Poems: Just a Case of Plagiarism? 
 
12:30-14:00 - Lunch 
 
14:00-15:20 - Panel 2. Chair: Mirela Ivanova 
 
Katerina Carvounis, From Homer to Apollonius, Virgil and Quintus: The Evolution of Quintus' Style 
 
Filip Doroszewski, Nonnus on Vita Activa and Vita Contemplativa: Martha and Mary in Paraphrasis 11 
 
15:20-15:50 - Coffee Break 
 
15:50-17:00 - Panel 3. Chair: Averil Cameron 
 
Peter Heather, Julian's Letter to Themistius Revisited 
 
Gillian Clark, Sine qua non: Mary Whitby and TTH 
 
17:00 - Final Words 
 
17.30 - Drinks Reception