[Usyd_Classics_Events] Reminder: USYD Classics Research Seminar Series 2024 #3, Tom Geue

[Ben Brown]

Dear Friends of Classics and Ancient History at USYD,

Please join us at the Boardroom of the V. Gordon Childe Centre (formerly CCANESA) or on Zoom (link below) for the third presentation in our Semester 1, 2024 Research Seminar Series.


April 11th (Thursday, 4pm AEST/UTC+10)




Tom Geue (Australian National University)




The Enslaved Muse: Apostrophe and Authorship in Latin Literature



Abstract
The Muse is part of the furniture of classical poetry. By the time of Virgil, we barely notice she is there, and her importance as a repository of poetic tradition seems scaled back. But what difference does it make that Roman poetry tended to be composed with a 'real' muse in the room, an enslaved literate secretary transcribing dictated verses, reading them back, copying them out, even editing them? Does it matter that an enslaved muse provided real material assistance to the poet even as the poet thanked some remote mythical goddess for her troubles? How do overfamiliar tropes of speech in Latin poetry such as address, invocation and apostrophe take on a different hue when the pattern of call and response was so central to the enslaver-enslaved relationship at the heart of that poetry's very production? When we make space for the enslaved muse, Latin literature starts to look very different.

Biography
Tom Geue is a Senior Lecturer in Classics at the Australian National University. His main interests are in Latin literature, authorship, and enslavement, with some forays into the history of 20th century classical scholarship. His 2019 book, Author Unknown, proposed some new ways of working with anonymous authorship. His new book, forthcoming with Verso Books in 2024, is an intellectual biography of the Italian classical philologist and Marxist Sebastiano Timpanaro (1923-2000).

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All best,

Ben
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