SPECIAL LECTURE / Troy Story: Miniaturising epic poetry on the Iliac tablets
13th October, 1 p.m.
Dr Michael Squire (King’s College London) will give two talks, open to all, at the University of Warsaw and at the National Museum in Warsaw on 12th and 13th October 2016. The lecture at the National Museum in Warsaw on 13th October (1 p.m., Kino MUZ cinema hall) will concern a captivating set of ‘Iliac tablets’; intricately crafted miniature Roman reliefs, representing scenes from Greek epic poems. One of these – a tablet illustrating the Circe episode of the Odyssey – is among the highlights of the collection of ancient art held in the National Museum in Warsaw.
Cinema hall (Kino MUZ) / admission free
The topic for the seminar on 12th October, which will be held at the Institute of Classical Studies at the University of Warsaw (Krakowskie Przedmieście 1, room 103, 2nd floor) at 6.30 p.m., will be ‘How to read a Roman portrait'? Optatian Porfyry, Constantine, and the Vultus Augusti. The seminar will examine Roman portraiture, and will do so with a with a view to one of Antiquity’s greatest – and most conspicuously overlooked – ‘picture-poets’: Publilius Optatianus Porfyrius (who was active in the court of Constantine the Great and whose picture-poems gave remarkable expression to Constantine’s political agenda).
Dr Squire is a world-renowned expert in a fascinating field examining the interactions between image and text in Antiquity. His published works include: Image and Text in Graeco-Roman Antiquity (Cambridge, 2009), The Iliad in a Nutshell: Visualizing Epic on the Tabulae Iliacae (Oxford, 2011) and the co-edited volume Morphogrammata / The Lettered Art of Optatian: Figuring Cultural Transformations in the Age of Constantine (Munich, 2016).
His personal website can be found here
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