[Usyd_Classics_Events] REMINDER: Additional Research Seminar USYD Classics: May 19 Del Maticic

[Ben Brown]

Dear All,
You are cordially invited to the penultimate paper in our Research Seminar series in USYD Classics and Ancient History for Semester 1, 2025, which is a welcome recent addition to the series (and was not on the original February schedule).

***LOCATION NOTE***
***This seminar will be held in the KEVIN LEE ROOM, Level 6 Main Quad***

May 19th (Monday, 12.15pm UTC+10, Kevin Lee Room and on Zoom)

https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/83159864939

Del Maticic (Vassar College)

Vergil's Bees as Metalworkers

Abstract:
Vergil innovates in the tradition of describing apian labour by comparing it multiple times to that of metalworkers. In this talk, I will show an abundant emphasis on mining and metalworking imagery in Georgics 4 and argue that Vergil's excursus on bees reveals interesting insights about the significance of metal and the metallic in Vergil.

Del Maticic is the Blegen Research Fellow in Greek and Roman Studies at Vassar College. He is interested in problems of environment, matter, and labour in Latin literature. He recently co-edited a volume with Palgrave called Working Lives in Ancient Rome and is working on a manuscript entitled The Invention of Metal in Latin Literature.

Best, Ben

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