A meeting of the Augustan Poetry Network, supported by the Board of the Faculty of Classics, the Craven Fund, Trinity College and Wadham College
Open to members of the Faculty of Classics: please contact stephen.heyworth@wadham.ox.ac.uk to register by 9th March 2026
Wednesday 25th March
1.45 to 3.40: Introduction + Corpus Tibullianum [intro + chair: Stephen Heyworth]
1.55: John Miller (University of Virginia), ‘A birthday epiphany in context (Tibullus 2.2)’
2.30: Jacqueline Fabre-Serris (Lille), ‘Di presentes in Tibullus 3.8 and 12: the amicus’ responses to Sulpicia’s epigram 13 and elegy 11’
3.05: Boris Kayachev (Trinity College, Dublin), ‘Apollo’s apparition in [Tibullus] 3.4’
3.40 to 4.10: tea
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4.10 to 5.55: Eclogues & Georgics [Bobby Xinyue, KCL]
4.10: Manuel Galzerano (SNS, Pisa), ‘Nutans mundus: cosmic resonances of apotheosis and epiphany in Vergil, Eclogues 4.48–52 and 5.56–65’
4.45: Gail Trimble (Trinity College, Oxford), ‘The (dis)appearances of Daphnis’
5.20: Miguel Andriolo Mangini (Trinity College, Dublin), ‘The poet, the Emperor, and the Muses in Virgil’s Georgics (2.475–89 and 3.8–18)’
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6.00 to 7.00: Drinks reception
7.30: Dinner at Al-Shami, 25 Walton Crescent
Thursday 26th March
9.00 to 10.45: Vergil and Propertius [Matthew Robinson]
9.00: Giovanni Zago (Firenze), ‘Di praesentes, humans, and the Golden Age. On Virgil’s philosophical background’
9.35: Céline Lehmann (Freie Universität, Berlin), ‘Apollo’s intervention: genre and inspiration in Propertius 3.3’
10.10: Tristan Franklinos (Oriel and Wolfson Colleges, Oxford), ‘Allied forces? Ecphrasis and epiphany in Propertius’
10.45 to 11.05: Coffee
11.05 to 12.50: Ovid [Llewelyn Morgan]
11.05: Melanie Möller (Freie Universität, Berlin), ‘Epiphany under control? Ovid, Amores 1.5’
11.40: Emilia Savva (University of Cyprus), ‘Est deus in nobis: Ovid’s notion of the divine’
12.15: Siobhan McShane (Durham), ‘Ovid, Zalmoxis, and proto-Christian epiphany in Vintila Horia’s Dieu est né en exil’
12.50 to 1.50: Lunch
1.50 to 3.35: Aeneid [Stephen Harrison]
1.50: Maria Luisa Delvigo (Udine), ‘La rivelazione di Venere’
2.25: Krešimir Vuković (Charles University, Prague), ‘Apotheosis of heroes and the cult of rivers’
3.00: Marie de la Roche Saint-André (Lille), ‘From Virgil’s apotheoses of heroes to Martha Marchina’s apotheoses of women martyrs: rewritings and adaptations’
3.35 to 4.00: Tea
4.00 to 5.45: General [Tobias Reinhardt]
4.00: James Clark (Christ Church, Oxford), ‘Si quis deus: hypothetical and counterfactual epiphanies’
4.35: Jürgen Paul Schwindt (Heidelberg), ‘Das epiphanische Sprechen. Zur Kryptotheologie der augusteischen Dichtung’
5.10: Clare Pryor (Christ’s College, Cambridge): ‘Christian receptions of Augustan apotheosis and epiphany in late antiquity’
6.25 to 7.00: Isobel Williams, reading of translations of Catullus and others, in Wadham College (Seminar Room, staircases 4/5, Front Quad)
7.10: Dinner in Wadham (Old Library)
Friday 27th March
9.00 to 10.45: Ovid 2 [Monica Gale, TCD]
9.00: Bill Freeman (Christ’s College, Cambridge): ‘Ampelos and apotheosis (Ovid, Fasti 3.407–14)’
9.35: Sophia Jellema (Oxford/LMU), ‘Failed apotheosis and effective epiphany in Ovid’s Niobe episode’
10.10: Alexandra Maria Müller (Heidelberg), ‘Die Zeichen der Göttin. Zur Poetik der Cybelischen Epiphanie’
10.45 to 11.15: Coffee
11.15 to 1.00: Ovid 3 [Alessandro Schiesaro, SNS Pisa]
11.15: Erica Bexley (Durham), ‘Nothing to see: epiphanies in Ovid’s Metamorphoses’
11.50: Khushi Jain (Trinity College, Dublin), ‘Dating the divine in Ovid’s Metamorphoses’
12.25: Marta Maria Perilli (SNS Pisa), ‘The deification of Hersilia in Ovid’s Metamorphoses’
1.00 to 1.45: Lunch and farewells
