Texts and Contexts Seminar: The Fortuna of Ovid

October 27, 2023

9:00AM - 5:00PM

Student-Alumni Council Room, The Ohio Union, 1739 N. High Street

Add to Calendar 2023-10-27 09:00:00 2023-10-27 17:00:00 Texts and Contexts Seminar: The Fortuna of Ovid Event Schedule Breakfast 8:30am – 9:00am Coffee, bagels, pastries, etc. will be provided. Opening remarks 9:00am – 9:05am Frank Coulson, Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies, The Ohio State University SESSION I: Ovid in the French Tradition 9:05am – 10:30am Moderator: Piero Andrea Martina, Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes Laura Endress, Academic Visitor, Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford From the Metamorphoses to the Ovide moralisé: What role did medieval Ovid commentaries play? Prunelle Deleville, Département de Langues et Littératures françaises et Latines Médiévales, Université de Genève From Latin commentaries to Christine de Pizan: poetic transfigurations of Io-Isis Marylène Possamaï-Pérez, Professor Emerita, Université de Lyon Translating and interpreting Ovid in the 14th century: the legend of Syrinx in the Ovide moralisé in verse Break 10:30am – 11:00am SESSION II: Varia, 11:00am – 12:30pm Moderator: Michael Meckler, Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies, The Ohio State University Kyle Gervais, Department of Classical Studies, Western University Serlo of Wilton: How to Out-Ovid Ovid Jinyu Liu, Department of History, Emory University Perceptions of Time in Ovid's Exile Poetry Brianda Otero, Departamento de Historia del Arte, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela For lectures and court: an unknown illuminated Metamorphoses manuscript of the fourteenth century Lunch 12:30pm – 2:00pm SESSION III: Medieval Commentaries on Ovid 2:00pm – 3:30pm Moderator: Harald Anderson, George Washington University School of Business David Gura, Rare Books and Special Collections, Hesburgh Library, University of Notre Dame Narratological Movement in the Metamorphoses Commentary Tradition Justin Haynes, Department of Classics, Georgetown University Allegory in Bersuire’s Moralized Ovid and Petrarch’s Africa William Little, Department of Classics, The Ohio State University Some Other Medieval and Renaissance Readers of the Nux Break 3:30pm – 4:00pm Virginia Brown Memorial Lecture 4:00pm – 5:00pm Introduction: Anna A. Grotans, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, The Ohio State University Speaker: Fátima Díez-Platas, Departamento de Historia del Arte, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela Mutatas videre formas: manuscripts, miniatures and medieval visual responses to Ovid’s Metamorphoses Reception and Laudatio for Frank Coulson 5:00pm – 7:00pm Ohio Staters, Inc. Traditions Room, Ohio Union, 1739 N. High Street Student-Alumni Council Room, The Ohio Union, 1739 N. High Street OSU ASC Drupal 8 ascwebservices@osu.edu America/New_York public

Add to Calendar 2023-10-27 09:00:00 2023-10-27 17:00:00 Texts and Contexts Seminar: The Fortuna of Ovid Event Schedule Breakfast  8:30am – 9:00am Coffee, bagels, pastries, etc. will be provided. Opening remarks  9:00am – 9:05am  Frank Coulson, Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies, The Ohio State University SESSION I:  Ovid in the French Tradition  9:05am – 10:30am Moderator: Piero Andrea Martina, Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes Laura Endress, Academic Visitor, Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford    From the Metamorphoses to the Ovide moralisé: What role did medieval Ovid commentaries play? Prunelle Deleville, Département de Langues et Littératures françaises et Latines Médiévales, Université de Genève    From Latin commentaries to Christine de Pizan: poetic transfigurations of Io-Isis Marylène Possamaï-Pérez, Professor Emerita, Université de Lyon              Translating and interpreting Ovid in the 14th century: the legend of Syrinx in the Ovide moralisé in verse Break  10:30am – 11:00am SESSION II: Varia, 11:00am – 12:30pm Moderator: Michael Meckler, Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies, The Ohio State University Kyle Gervais, Department of Classical Studies, Western University    Serlo of Wilton: How to Out-Ovid Ovid Jinyu Liu, Department of History, Emory University     Perceptions of Time in Ovid's Exile Poetry Brianda Otero, Departamento de Historia del Arte, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela    For lectures and court: an unknown illuminated Metamorphoses manuscript of the fourteenth century Lunch  12:30pm – 2:00pm SESSION III: Medieval Commentaries on Ovid  2:00pm – 3:30pm Moderator: Harald Anderson, George Washington University School of Business David Gura, Rare Books and Special Collections, Hesburgh Library, University of Notre Dame            Narratological Movement in the Metamorphoses Commentary Tradition Justin Haynes, Department of Classics, Georgetown University                Allegory in Bersuire’s Moralized Ovid and Petrarch’s Africa William Little, Department of Classics, The Ohio State University               Some Other Medieval and Renaissance Readers of the Nux Break  3:30pm – 4:00pm Virginia Brown Memorial Lecture  4:00pm – 5:00pm Introduction: Anna A. Grotans, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, The Ohio State University Speaker: Fátima Díez-Platas, Departamento de Historia del Arte, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela                               Mutatas videre formas: manuscripts, miniatures and medieval visual responses to Ovid’s                    Metamorphoses Reception and Laudatio for Frank Coulson  5:00pm – 7:00pm Ohio Staters, Inc. Traditions Room, Ohio Union, 1739 N. High Street Student-Alumni Council Room, The Ohio Union, 1739 N. High Street Department of Classics classics@osu.edu America/New_York public

Event Schedule

Breakfast 8:30am – 9:00am
Coffee, bagels, pastries, etc. will be provided.

Opening remarks 9:00am – 9:05am
Frank Coulson, Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies, The Ohio State University

SESSION I: Ovid in the French Tradition 9:05am – 10:30am
Moderator: Piero Andrea Martina, Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes

Laura Endress, Academic Visitor, Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford
From the Metamorphoses to the Ovide moralisé: What role did medieval Ovid commentaries play?

Prunelle Deleville, Département de Langues et Littératures françaises et Latines Médiévales, Université de Genève
From Latin commentaries to Christine de Pizan: poetic transfigurations of Io-Isis

Marylène Possamaï-Pérez, Professor Emerita, Université de Lyon
Translating and interpreting Ovid in the 14th century: the legend of Syrinx in the Ovide moralisé in verse

Break 10:30am – 11:00am

SESSION II: Varia, 11:00am – 12:30pm
Moderator: Michael Meckler, Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies, The Ohio State University

Kyle Gervais, Department of Classical Studies, Western University
Serlo of Wilton: How to Out-Ovid Ovid

Jinyu Liu, Department of History, Emory University
Perceptions of Time in Ovid's Exile Poetry

Brianda Otero, Departamento de Historia del Arte, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
For lectures and court: an unknown illuminated Metamorphoses manuscript of the fourteenth century

Lunch 12:30pm – 2:00pm

SESSION III: Medieval Commentaries on Ovid 2:00pm – 3:30pm
Moderator: Harald Anderson, George Washington University School of Business

David Gura, Rare Books and Special Collections, Hesburgh Library, University of Notre Dame
Narratological Movement in the Metamorphoses Commentary Tradition

Justin Haynes, Department of Classics, Georgetown University
Allegory in Bersuire’s Moralized Ovid and Petrarch’s Africa

William Little, Department of Classics, The Ohio State University
Some Other Medieval and Renaissance Readers of the Nux

Break 3:30pm – 4:00pm

Virginia Brown Memorial Lecture 4:00pm – 5:00pm
Introduction: Anna A. Grotans, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, The Ohio State University
Speaker: Fátima Díez-Platas, Departamento de Historia del Arte, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Mutatas videre formas: manuscripts, miniatures and medieval visual responses to Ovid’s
Metamorphoses

Reception and Laudatio for Frank Coulson 5:00pm – 7:00pm
Ohio Staters, Inc. Traditions Room, Ohio Union, 1739 N. High Street