In anticipation of the one-day conference on Friday 8 March, there will be a weekly hybrid seminar on Terence’s Phormio during Hilary (Spring) term 2024. 

This will bring together the ‘close reading’ typical of the Oxford seminar, with big-picture methodological discussion, to create a better understanding of how we have, how we might, and how we should, interpret Terentian comedy.

Graduate students and early career researchers will introduce select passages, before we open up to the room for roundtable discussion. Anyone can participate. It is by no means expected that participants will have any prior knowledge of Phormio or of Roman comedy in general. In fact, our aim is to bring a range of different approaches to bear on the text.

• Week 1 (17 Jan.): David Shipp (Oxford), ll. 1-111
• Week 2 (24 Jan.]: Matthew Leigh (Oxford), ll.111-230
• Week 3 (31 Jan.): Jonathan Katz (Oxford), ll. 231-347
• Week 4 (7 Feb.): Sebastian Hyams (Oxford), ll. 347-464
• Week 5 (14 Feb.): Melina McClure (Oxford), ll. 465-566
• Week 6 (21 Feb.): Charlotte Susser (Oxford), ll. 567-726
• Week 7 (28 Feb.): Matthew Wainwright (Oxford), ll. 726-894
• Week 8 (6 March): Valentino Gargano (Oxford), ll. 895-1055

Register

If you are planning to attend any of the seminars, either in person or via Zoom, you are kindly requested to fill in the online Registration Form.

Queries

For any information or queries please email:  thomas.lister@lmh.ox.ac.uk