Thursday, March 6th at 5:00pm. "Elegiac Onomastics in the Roman Epigraphic Archive," Alison Keith (University of Toronto)

A Free Public Lecture

Elegiac Onomastics in the Roman Epigraphic Archive

Why do the names of the Latin love poets’ girlfriends overlap with the Greek names of slaves and freedwomen living in Rome at that time? 

Looking at contemporary inscriptional evidence, Professor Keith will argue that Roman elegy is intimately correlated with Roman imperialism in its celebration of the sexual spoils of military conquest.

Professor Keith is a well-known scholar of Augustan poetry; she has a recent excellent book on Propertius, the now classic Engendering Rome: Women in Latin Epic, and many articles on Roman poetry and Ovid.  She's currently editor of Phoenix.  

Thursday, March 6th at 5:00pm
Eaton Humanities Room 250
Reception to follow in Eaton Humanities Room 350