Conference and Seminar Presentations

  • 2019: “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. 
  • 2019: “Intertextual Agones in Archaic Greek Epic: Penelope vs. the Catalogue of Women”, CA / FIEC Conference 2019, London, 4–8 Jul. 
  • 2019: “Intentional Greek Allusion to Near Eastern Myth? The case of Aphrodite and Ishtar between Love and War”, Advanced Seminar in the Humanities, Venice International University, San Servolo, Venice, 6–13 Apr. 
  • 2019: “Scholarship and Learning in Hellenistic Poetry Outside Alexandria”, Hellenistic Scholarship and Learning Outside Alexandria, Università Ca’Foscari, Venice, 5 Apr. 
  • 2019: “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. 
  • 2019: “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. 
  • 2018: "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. 
  • 2018: “Lyric Beyond the Canon: The Ithyphallic Hymn for Demetrius Poliorcetes”, Lyric Beyond Lyric, King’s College, London, 24 May 
  • 2018: "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.​
  • 2017: “Orphic Argonautica 392-575: The Allusive Art of Expansion and Contraction”, Imperial Greek Epic Reading Group, Cambridge, 27 Oct.
  • ​2017:  “Sweet and Sombre Songbirds: The Aesthetics of Lament in Graeco-Roman Elegy”, Classics Faculty A Caucus Seminar: Elegy, Cambridge, 18 Oct.
  • 2017: Response to J. J. Clauss, “The Near Eastern Background of Aetiological Wordplay in Callimachus”, 13​th Groningen Workshop on Hellenistic Poetry: Callimachus Revisited (retirement event for Prof. M. Annette Harder), 12–14 Sep. 
  • 2017: “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.
  • 2017: “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
  • 2017: “Ps.-Oppian, Cynegetica 2.100-158 and 2.343-376: Seleucid echoes and Homeric goats”, Imperial Greek Epic Reading Group, Cambridge, 9 June
  • 2017: “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. 
  • 2016: “Oppian: Halieutica 3.1-28 and 3.280-337: Mythical Innovation and Martial Fishermen”, Imperial Greek Epic Reading Group, Cambridge, 11 Nov.
  • 2016: "Indices of Allusion in Early Greek Poetry", Graduate Interdisciplinary Seminar, Cambridge, 21 Oct.
  • 2016: “Attalid Aesthetics. The Pergamene ‘Baroque’ Reconsidered”, Casting Off Shadows: Hellenistic Poetry Beyond Callimachean Aesthetics, Cambridge, 1–3 Sep.
  • 2016: “Poetic Memory”, Retirement event for Martin Drury, Merchant Taylors’ School, Northwood, 21 June [invited speaker alongside Alan Sommerstein]
  • 2016: “Early Hellenistic Epic: A Reassessment”, Hellenistic Poetry Before Callimachus, Liverpool, 14–15 June
  • 2016: “Triphiodorus: Sack of Troy 330-397: The Wooden Horse and Cassandra’s Prophecy”, Imperial Greek Epic Reading Group, Cambridge, 20 May
  • 2016: “Pergamene Poetics of Praise: Attalid Fragments in Context”, Classical Association Conference 2016, Edinburgh, 6–9 Apr. 
  • 2016: “Quintus Posthomerica 13.251-299: Astyanax’s death and Antenor’s survival”, Imperial Greek Epic Reading Group, Cambridge, 19 Feb.
  • 2016: “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. 
  • 2015: “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]
  • 2015: “Civilisation at what cost? Heracles and the Ambiguities of Progress in Hellenistic Poetry”, Progress in Ancient Literature, AMPAL 2015, Edinburgh, 17 June 
  • 2015: “Nonnus Dionysiaca 40.423-534: Nonnus’ aetion of Tyre", Imperial Greek Epic Reading Group, Cambridge, 22 May 
  • 2015: “Nonnus Dionysiaca 25.1-147: Nonnus’ Proem in the Middle”, Imperial Greek Epic Reading Group, Cambridge, 20 Feb. 
  • 2015: “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.
  • 2014: “Nonnus Dionysiaca 5.287-369: Actaeon’s Transgression and Transformation”, Imperial Greek Epic Reading Group, Cambridge, 31 Oct.
  • 2014: “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 [Full text available at Humanities Commons; academia.edu]
  • 2014: “Alexandria Imagined: the Ptolemaic capital in Hellenistic Literature”, Egypt in Classical Literature Seminar, Oxford, 19 June 
  • 2014: “Ideologies of Galatian Victory: Allegories and Analogies in Literature and Art”, Recent Work on Ancient Galatia Workshop, Waterloo, Canada, 13–15 March Previously presented: 21/02/2014, Graduate Work-in-Progress Seminar, Oxford; 10/02/2014, Classical Literature Graduate Seminar, Oxford]
  • 2014: “Female rhetoric: Mica’s onslaught at Thesm.383-404”, Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae ‘Professorial’ Seminar, Oxford, 3 Feb. 
  • 2014: “How ‘Alexandrian’ is the ‘Alexandrian footnote’? Markers of Intertextuality in Hellenistic Poetry”, Metaphors of Intertextuality  Seminar, Oxford, 28 Jan. 
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  • 2013: “To the City-Loving Fuscus: Horace Epistles 1.10”, Horace Epistles I ‘Professorial’ Seminar, Oxford, 7 Nov. 
  • 2013: 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.