A Second Gaze. Intertextuality and Transient Meaning in Roman Texts and Objects

A Second Gaze Intertextuality and Transient Meaning in Roman Texts and Objects

Organizer
PD Dr. Matthias Grawehr, Jun.-Prof. Markus Kersten, IAW, JGU Mainz
Venue
LEIZA, Ludwig-Lindenschmit-Forum 1
ZIP
55116
Location
Mainz
Country
Germany
Takes place
Hybrid
From - Until
13.11.2023 - 14.11.2023
By
Matthias Grawehr, IAW, Klassische Archäologie, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

International Conference, November 13–14, 2023, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

A Second Gaze Intertextuality and Transient Meaning in Roman Texts and Objects

Texts and images encapsulate ideas, crystallized within a specific moment, and imbued with particular intentions. When etched into stone, molded in clay, or inscribed upon parchment, they transcend the confines of time and space. Upon exposure to a second glance, they invite reinterpretation and reutilization. In this process, their original meaning may be retained or deliberately hinted at. Conversely, they may lose their initial significance, finding themselves within entirely different contexts, thereby adopting unforeseen and novel connotations.

In the simultaneous consideration of an artifact's primary and secondary use, some might perceive ambiguities of forms, topoi, etc., or perhaps discern an undercurrent of irony. In more disruptive object histories or textual traditions, we might be prone to consider them as 'flotsam', adrift from distant epochs and shores. To what extent are such assumptions and their implications for reception history justified? To what extent do they apply to both written and visual media?

Questions of intertextuality have been raised frequently and forcefully in classical philology in recent years. Archaeology, too, is increasingly asking about ambiguities, the reuse of images and their migration as a crosscultural phenomenon. What lessons might be learned from the mutual exchange of insights between these two disciplines? What new questions arise from an interdisciplinary approach?

The aim of this conference is to bring together scholars from Latin philology and Roman archaeology alike to discuss the phenomenon of secondary meanings.

Programm

Monday, November 13

9.15–9.45 Welcome Coffee
9.45–10.00 Welcome Address
10.00–10.30 Matthias Grawehr (JGU Mainz) – Markus Kersten (JGU Mainz), Introduction
10.30–11.15 Islème Sassi (Universität Zürich), Drei Blicke auf das Verbotene: Die Diana-Gruppe im Goldenen Esel des Apuleius
11.15–12.00 Matteo Rossetti (Università degli Studi di Milano), Dalla terra al cielo, intervisualità nella poesia astronomica latina
13.30–14.15 Amy Miranda (Silkeborg, Denmark), Palmyrene Portraiture through Gazes Cast: Collective Memory Practices, Cultural Heritage Preservation, and Archaeological Archives
14.15–15.00 Fabio Tutrone (Università degli Studi di Palermo), Textual Reuses, Modern Gazes, and Perceptions of (Un)Finishedness: The Exemplary Case of Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura
15.30–16.15 Elisa Dal Chiele (Università di Bologna), Citazioni, traduzioni, parafrasi: ‘riusi’ poetici in Cicerone filosofo
16.15–17.00 Raphael Szeider (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen), Hadrianus Augustus – Materielle Vergangenheits(re)konstruktionen unter Hadrian
17.00–17.45 Chiara Ballestrazzi (Università di Pisa), Tra parola e immagine. Le tante vite del tempio di Apollonide di Cizico (Antologia Palatina, Libro 3)

Evening Lecture (Moderation: Matthias Grawehr, JGU Mainz)
19.15 Ivan Foletti (Masarykova univerzita, Brno) – Marie Okáčová (Masarykova univerzita, Brno)
AVREA CONCISIS SVRGIT PICTVRA METALLIS: An Epistemological and Methodological
Approximation of Early Christian (Inter)Textual Visuality

Tuesday, November 14

9.30–10.15 Rolf F. Sporleder (Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek München), Invitation to Look Twice. Mythological Images on Campana Reliefs
10.15–11.00 Florian Sommer (Universität Zürich), Theonomastik und Intertextualität in lateinischen Fluchtafeln
11.00–11.45 Elisabeth Günther (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg) – Sven Günther (Institute
for the History of Ancient Civilizations, NENU Changchun), Roman only at First Glance? The Adaptation of Imperial Iconography in the Coin Types of Mannos Philorhomaios
14.00–14.45 Nicole Berlin (The Davis Museum at Wellesley College), Decoration, Renovation, and Identity in the Houses of Roman Sicily
14.45–15.30 Arne Reinhardt (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg), Alter Dekor in neuem Gewand. Römische Architekturreliefs aus Ton in antiken Zweitnutzungen und Wiederverwendungen
16.00–16.45 Daniel Falkemback Ribeiro (Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia), Carving More Trees: Nature and Memory in Roman Pastoral Poetry
16.45-17.30 Michael Paschalis (Πανεπιστήμιο Κρήτης), Rethinking Horatian recusatio
17.30–18.30 Final Discussion

Contact (announcement)

mgrawehr@uni-mainz.de

https://mainzancientstudies.uni-mainz.de/programme/
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