Apr 25, 2025
28th Aquilonia in Dresden (27./28.06.2025)
After the Institute of Classical Philology last hosted the philological conference Aquilonia in 2013, we are very pleased to once again welcome guests from Berlin, Greifswald, Halle, Hamburg, Jena, Kiel, Leipzig, Potsdam and Rostock from June 27 to 28.
We also invite our students and other interested parties to attend the presentations and make contacts. The workshop by Prof. Dr. Thorsten Burkard ("Understanding Latin stem forms"), which is kindly offered both on Friday, 16:45-17:45, and on Saturday, 9:30-10:30, is particularly suitable for students.
If you are interested, we look forward to receiving your non-binding registration via .
Further information can be found on the dates page and on the flyer.
Program
Friday
| Lecture hall E08 | Lecture hall E11 | Lecture hall E04 | |
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| 14:30 |
Welcome |
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| 14:45 | Andreas Heinichen (Leipzig): Literary constructions of sophistry in Aristophanes - ὁ κωμῳδοποιὸς σοφιστεύων | Benjamin Wallura (FU Berlin): The burst banquet. Varros bulla and De re rustica Book 1 | Thorge Piepereit (Kiel): The Dialogus bilinguium ac trilinguium. Amnesty for a programmatic diatribe |
| 15:30 | Dr. Sabrina Mancuso (Jena): Euripides and Athenian Democracy: Generational Conflict in the Political Rhetoric of Hippolytus and Orestes | Jannik Sommer (Kiel): Death as an organizing motif in Hor. carm. 1,9 | Sebastian Mayer (Kiel): Michael Köchlin's Commentarii de bello Maximiliani cum Venetis gesto. Book 1 Edition and commentary |
| 16:15 | Coffee break | ||
| 16:45 | Sebastian F. Seeber (HU Berlin): Character Analysis and Reconstruction as Possible Keys to Plato's Enigmatic Dialogue Kratylos | Franz Jaß (Potsdam): Memoria teneo Milesiam quandam mulierem. Cicero and the exemplum of the criminal woman |
Room 114, 16:45-17:45 Prof. Dr. Thorsten Burkard (Kiel): Workshop: Understanding Latin stem forms |
| 17:30 | Dr. Hannah Brandenburg (Potsdam): Euripides' work and Socrates' contribution. Ghostwriting (συμποιεῖν) in Attic comedy | Dr. Enno Friedrich (Rostock): Polyphony and family in Livy's ab urbe condita (Liv. 1-2; 23-26) |
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| 18:15 |
Reception |
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Saturday
| Lecture hall E08 | Lecture hall E11 | Lecture hall E04 | |
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| 9:30 | Kosta Gligorijevic/Dr. Melissa Kunz (Leipzig): Galenic Testimonies in the Book of Definitions of Michael Badoqa: An Investigation of Sleep and Dream Concepts in Syriac Knowledge Transfer | Lioba Kauk (Leipzig): The comicus Plautus on the comoedia | Dr. Martin Wagner (Rostock): 3 years of "Digitalization of teacher training" |
| Room 114, 9:30-10:30 Prof. Dr. Thorsten Burkard (Kiel): Workshop: understanding Latin stem forms |
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| 10:15 | Dr. Eva Wöckener-Gade (Hamburg): Between sacred and pagan: Explanations of biblical and pagan names in the Etymologicum Gudianum | Marcel Kasten (Kiel): Moria Erasmi socco comico induta. The Reception of Erasmus' Praise of Folly in Friedrich Hermann Flayder's comedy Moria rediviva from 1627 |
Henrike Koester (Dresden): There is no escape: Depictions of the underworld in the video game Hades (Supergiant Games, 2020) |
| 11:00 | Coffee break | ||
| 11:30 | Jonas Sültmann (FU Berlin): Menelaus' Wounding in the Iliad. An example of indirect communication in the light of text-critical questions | Roman Tikhonov (HU Berlin): Rome as the supra-divine in the Pharsalia | Markus Hörty (Potsdam): Rapta nuptias meas optaverat: Roman law, rhetoric and the role of women in Latin school declamation - potentials for Latin teaching? |
| 12:15 | Lucas Schult (Halle): Lucian's ninth dialog of the gods - an Iuppiter iterum deceptus? | Marc Korrmann (HU Berlin): orbem digito temperare - The fingers of the emperors who rule the world rule the world |
Barbara Todtenhaupt (Kiel): Erasmus of Rotterdam and his skillful play with the new media |
| 13:00 | Conclusion followed by refreshments | ||
Afterwards (3 p.m. & possibly also 4 p.m.)
Guided tour through the Hall of Antiquities of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD) on the topic: "God or Man. Famous Greek sculptures in the Semper Building" with Dr. Sascha Kansteiner (curator SKD)
Address: Theaterplatz 1, 01067 Dresden
Students can be granted free admission.
Registration is requested by 20.06.2025.