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IMC 2004: Sessions

Session 722: Crossing Cultures: Latin Writers of Late Antiquity

Tuesday 13 July 2004, 14.15-15.45

Organiser:John B. Dillon, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Moderator/Chair:John B. Dillon, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Paper 722-aMissing Hierarchy: The Gods in Dracontius' Medea (Romul. 10)
(Language: English)
Helen Kaufmann, Département des Sciences de lAantiquité, Université de Fribourg
Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Pagan Religions
Paper 722-bRoman Eloquence in a Merovingian Context: Venantius Fortunatus' Strategies of Praising
(Language: English)
Michael Roberts, Department of Classical Studies, Wesleyan University, Connecticut
Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Rhetoric
Paper 722-cSidonius Apollinaris in Letter-Writers of the 12th Century
(Language: English)
Lena Wahlgren-Smith, Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Culture, University of Southampton
Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance)
Abstract

The session will explore the writings of late antique Latin authors with particular reference to their roles as agents of cultural transfer in their own time and later.