Presentations

Conference and Seminar Presentations

2020

“Poets and their πρότεροι: Allusive Epigonality in Archaic Greek Poetry”, Arts of Allusion: Greek Intertextuality Over Time, Toronto, Canada, 11–12 Sep. [invited by Peter Bing, Andrew Faulkner and Regina Höschele]
“Homer, Hesiod and a Footnoting φασί”, CA Conference 2020, Swansea, 17–20 Apr.
“Homer in his World: Palimpsestic Immersion in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo and Hermesianax’s Leontion”, Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree, ICS Seminar, 24 Feb. [invited by Michael Trapp and Fiachra Mac Góráin]
“Intertextual Impersonation in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo”, ‘Archaic Poetics of Identity’ Panel, 2020 SCS/AIA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 2–5 Jan.

2019

“Knowledge in Gilgameš”, Ancient Near East (ANE) Seminar, Cambridge, 22 Oct. [invited by Martin Worthington]
“The Coma Stratonices: Hair Encomia, Queenly Power, and Ptolemaic-Seleucid Rivalry”, 14th Groningen Workshop on Hellenistic Poetry: Women and Power in Hellenistic Poetry, Groningen, Netherlands, 21–23 Aug.
“Intertextual Agones in Archaic Greek Epic: Penelope vs. the Catalogue of Women”, CA / FIEC Conference 2019, London, 4–8 Jul.
“Sweet and Shrill Songbirds: The Sounds of Lament in Graeco-Roman Elegy”, ‘Song, Lament, Love: Harking Back to the Sounds of Elegy’, 12th Celtic Conference in Classics, Coimbra, Portugal, 26–29 June
“The Coma Stratonices: Hair Encomia, Queenly Power, and Ptolemaic-Seleucid Rivalry”, ‘Cherchez la femme: Women in Hellenistic History, Historiography and Reception’, 12th Celtic Conference in Classics, Coimbra, Portugal, 26–29 June
"AP 15: Miscellaneous Joys and Cometas' Paraphrase of John 11", Late Greek Reading Group, Cambridge,14 June
“Intercultural Indexicality? Markers of Allusion between Greece and the Near East”, Advanced Seminar in the Humanities, Venice International University, San Servolo, Venice, 6–13 Apr.
“Scholarship and Learning in Hellenistic Poetry Outside Alexandria”, Hellenistic Scholarship and Learning Outside Alexandria, Università Ca’Foscari, Venice, 5 Apr. [invited by Thomas Coward]
“Repeating the Unrepeated: Homeric Hapax Legomena in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry”, Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World XIII: Repetition, University of Texas at Austin, 27–31 Mar.
"Anth. Pal. 7: A Museum of Death”, Late Greek Reading Group, Cambridge, 15 Feb.
"Nicander’s Hymn to Attalus: Pergamene Panegyric", 2019 SCS/AIA Annual Meeting, San Diego, 3–6 Jan.

2018

“Cyzicene Epigrams: Anth. Pal. 3”, Late Greek Reading Group, Cambridge, 9 Nov.
"Talk and Text: The Pre-Alexandrian Footnote between Orality and Writing”, Text and Intertext in Early Greek Poetry, Christ’s College, Cambridge, 3–4 Sep. [invited by Adrian Kelly and Henry Spelman]
“Lyric Beyond the Canon: The Ithyphallic Hymn for Demetrius Poliorcetes”, Lyric Beyond Lyric, King’s College, London, 24 May
"Dionysius Periegetes, Oikoumenes Periegesis 1-169: Didactic Authority and Imperial Expanse”, Imperial Greek Epic Reading Group, Cambridge, 2 Mar.

2017

“Horses for Courses: The Metapoetics of Horse- and Chariot-Riding in Roman Poetry”, Graduate Interdisciplinary Seminar, Cambridge, 3 Nov.
“Orphic Argonautica 392-575: The Allusive Art of Expansion and Contraction”, Imperial Greek Epic Reading Group, Cambridge, 27 Oct.
“Sweet and Sombre Songbirds: The Aesthetics of Lament in Graeco-Roman Elegy”, Classics Faculty A Caucus Seminar: Elegy, Cambridge, 18 Oct.
Response to J. J. Clauss, “The Near Eastern Background of Aetiological Wordplay in Callimachus”, 13th Groningen Workshop on Hellenistic Poetry: Callimachus Revisited (retirement event for Prof. M. Annette Harder), 12–14 Sep.
“Penelopean Simaetha: A Flawed Paradigm of Femininity in Theocritus’ Second Idyll”, La féminité dans les arts hellénistiques: voix, genre, representations, Lyon, France, 7–9 Sep.
“Symphonic Bestiaries: Poetic and Cultural Resonances in the Sounds of the Animal Kingdom”, 23rd CorHaLi Colloquium: Soundscapes of the Ancient Greek World, Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece, Nafplio, Greece, 15–18 July
“Ps.-Oppian, Cynegetica 2.100-158 and 2.343-376: Seleucid echoes and Homeric goats”, Imperial Greek Epic Reading Group, Cambridge, 9 June
“Colluthus, Rape of Helen 236-316: Traditionality, Gender and Focalisation”, Imperial Greek Epic Reading Group, Cambridge, 3 March

2016

“The Jewish Epic Fragments of Philo and Theodotus”, Being Jewish, Writing Greek Seminar, Cambridge, 28 Nov.
“Oppian: Halieutica 3.1-28 and 3.280-337: Mythical Innovation and Martial Fishermen”, Imperial Greek Epic Reading Group, Cambridge, 11 Nov.
"Indices of Allusion in Early Greek Poetry", Graduate Interdisciplinary Seminar, Cambridge, 21 Oct.
“Attalid Aesthetics. The Pergamene ‘Baroque’ Reconsidered”, Casting Off Shadows: Hellenistic Poetry Beyond Callimachean Aesthetics, Cambridge, 1–3 Sep.
“Poetic Memory”, Retirement event for Martin Drury, Merchant Taylors’ School, Northwood, 21 June [invited speaker alongside Alan Sommerstein]
“Early Hellenistic Epic: A Reassessment”, Hellenistic Poetry Before Callimachus, Liverpool, 14–15 June [invited by Marco Perale]
“Triphiodorus: Sack of Troy 330-397: The Wooden Horse and Cassandra’s Prophecy”, Imperial Greek Epic Reading Group, Cambridge, 20 May
“Pergamene Poetics of Praise: Attalid Fragments in Context”, Classical Association Conference 2016, Edinburgh, 6–9 Apr.
“Quintus Posthomerica 13.251-299: Astyanax’s death and Antenor’s survival”, Imperial Greek Epic Reading Group, Cambridge, 19 Feb.
“Indices of Allusion in Early Greek Epic”, Edinburgh Classics Postgraduate Seminar Series, Edinburgh, 28 Jan.

2015

“Quintus Posthomerica 7.169-252: Literary Reverberations on Scyros”, Imperial Greek Epic Reading Group, Cambridge, 27 Nov.
“Masks and Mirrors: Poetic Self-Consciousness and Literary History in Attic Old Comedy and Hellenistic Poetry”, 12th Groningen Workshop on Hellenistic Poetry: Drama and Performance in Hellenistic Poetry, 19 Aug. [Previously presented: 01/11/2013, Graduate Work-In-Progress Seminar, Oxford; 15/05/2015, Graduate Interdisciplinary Seminar, Cambridge]
“Civilisation at what cost? Heracles and the Ambiguities of Progress in Hellenistic Poetry”, Progress in Ancient Literature, AMPAL 2015, Edinburgh, 17 June
“Nonnus Dionysiaca 40.423-534: Nonnus’ aetion of Tyre", Imperial Greek Epic Reading Group, Cambridge, 22 May
“Nonnus Dionysiaca 25.1-147: Nonnus’ Proem in the Middle”, Imperial Greek Epic Reading Group, Cambridge, 20 Feb.
“How Old is the ‘Alexandrian Footnote’? Tradition and Self-Consciousness in the Homeric Epics”, Graduate Interdisciplinary Seminar, Cambridge, 23 Jan.

2014

“What Happens When History Gets Intertextual? Echoes of the Herodotean Cyrus in Lucian’s Zeuxis and Polybius VII.15-18”, Graduate Interdisciplinary Seminar, Cambridge, 31 Oct.
“Nonnus Dionysiaca 5.287-369: Actaeon’s Transgression and Transformation”, Imperial Greek Epic Reading Group, Cambridge, 31 Oct.
“From Zero to Hero: Jason's Redemption and the Evaluation of Apollonius' Argonautica”, Failure in Ancient Literature, AMPAL 2014, Cambridge, 6–7 Sep. [Full text available at Humanities Commons; academia.edu]
“Alexandria Imagined: the Ptolemaic capital in Hellenistic Literature”, Egypt in Classical Literature Seminar, Oxford, 19 June
“Ideologies of Galatian Victory: Allegories and Analogies in Literature and Art”, Recent Work on Ancient Galatia Workshop, Waterloo, Canada, 13–15 March [Invited by Altay Coşkun]. Previously presented: 21/02/2014, Graduate Work-in-Progress Seminar, Oxford; 10/02/2014, Classical Literature Graduate Seminar, Oxford]
“Female rhetoric: Mica’s onslaught at Thesm.383-404”, Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae ‘Professorial’ Seminar, Oxford, 3 Feb.
“How ‘Alexandrian’ is the ‘Alexandrian footnote’? Markers of Intertextuality in Hellenistic Poetry”, Metaphors of Intertextuality Seminar, Oxford, 28 Jan.

2013

“To the City-Loving Fuscus: Horace Epistles 1.10”, Horace Epistles I ‘Professorial’ Seminar, Oxford, 7 Nov.
Response to A. Kirichenko, "Importing the Past: Theocritus’ Id.15 and Callimachus’ Aetia”, 11th Groningen Workshop on Hellenistic Poetry: Past and Present in Hellenistic Poetry, 28–30 Aug.