Event
Utopia and Dystopia in Roman Literature
(The Pacific Rim Roman Literature Seminar)
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Description
“The Pacific Rim Roman Literature Seminar is an annual conference of Latinists. [...] The topic in 2009 will be [...] exploring how this central notion in human life resonates in the literature of ancient Rome from a variety of perspectives and by looking at a wide range of sample texts. [...] Issues / texts that could be discussed include: concepts on an ideal life that might be situated in a different time (e.g. Golden Age or visions of the future), in a different place (e.g. Islands of the Blessed, countryside, realm of the gods or underworld) or just be a vision of the writer; criticism of present conditions against the implicit or explicit background of an ideal set-up; implicit or explicit advice on how to achieve an ideal life or ideal way of behaviour or to avoid the opposite (e.g. philosophical treatises or mirrors of princes).” (UCL)
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Place
University College London
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Date
7-9 July 2009