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<p class="MsoNormal"> Dear Friends of Classics and Ancient History,<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"MS Gothic"">
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<p class="MsoNormal">You are cordially invited to the sixth Classics and Ancient History research seminar of semester 2, 2024.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Thursday September 19, 4pm AEST (UTC+10)</b>, Vere Gordon Childe Centre Boardroom and Zoom:
<a href="https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/82326237855">https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/82326237855</a> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"MS Gothic"">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Connor Purcell Wood (University of Cambridge)</b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"MS Gothic"">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Canonicity and Society: The case of early Greek catalogue poetry</b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"MS Gothic"">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Abstract:<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"MS Gothic"">
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<p class="MsoNormal">This paper will trace the evolution of a fragmentary and little-loved subgenre of early Greek epic: the catalogic and antiquarian epics, often anonymous, that told epichoric versions of myths to legitimize local claims to power and divine
descent. Seeking to overcome modern tastes and prejudices in favour of poems with a single inspired author, it will show how these poems failed to adapt to changing social and political circumstances that made the archaic local aristocracies irrelevant. Instead,
they were absorbed into prose mythographies, while audiences ceased taking interest in them as poems. A unique representative of this genre, the (pseudo-)Hesiodic Catalogue of Women, will be contrasted with them to show how the ‘stamp’ of Hesiod’s name and
the poem’s panhellenic structure enabled it to survive much longer and enter the canon and the papyrus tradition. Eventually it, too, failed to justify itself to new generations of readers and was lost.<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"MS Gothic"">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Biography:<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"MS Gothic"">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Connor Purcell Wood is an American doctoral student in classics at Trinity College, Cambridge, completing a dissertation on the Hesiodic exegetical tradition under the supervision of Renaud Gagné. A former schoolteacher, coxswain, and Oxford
organ scholar, he currently serves as a William Ritchie Visiting Fellow at the University of Sydney alongside his friend from undergraduate days, Daphne Martin. After finishing his dissertation and a related project, the first modern text-critical edition
of the scholia to the Hesiodic Shield of Heracles, he hopes to continue to postdoctoral work on a comparative history of exegesis.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Papers this semester will be presented on campus live streamed via Zoom (unless otherwise indicated).
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<p class="MsoNormal">The on-campus location will either be:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Vere Gordon Childe Centre Boardroom, Level 4, Madsen Building, or the Kevin Lee Room (Quadrangle Level 6, Room H6.04).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">ZOOM<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The zoom address for this and all sessions during semester 2 is <a href="https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/82326237855">https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/82326237855</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For further information, email: <a href="mailto:benjamin.brown@sydney.edu.au">benjamin.brown@sydney.edu.au</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best, Ben<o:p></o:p></p>
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