Philomythia
Aristotle’s Uses of Previous Literatures
June 16th-17th 2026
Ritson Room, Dept of Classics & Ancient History
38 North Bailey, Durham DH1 3EU
Ritson Room, Dept of Classics & Ancient History
38 North Bailey, Durham DH1 3EU
| Tuesday 16th June | ||
| 0930 | Arrival and Registration | |
| Panel 1 (Chair: Phil Horky) | ||
| 1000 | Edoardo Benati (Padova) | Hesiod and other early Theologoi (online) |
| 1030 | Andrea Tisano (NYU) | Arguing with the Poets: Dialectical Uses of Poetic Endoxa in Aristotle’s Theoretical Works |
| 1100 | Coffee | |
| Panel 2 (Chair: Rosie Wyles) | ||
| 1130 | Tim Whitmarsh (Cambridge) | Aristotle’s Rhapsodes |
| 1200 | Cristina Viano (CNRS) | Meteôra en muthou schêmati. Aristotle’s Use of Myth in the Meteorologica |
| 1230 | Massimo Giuseppetti (Roma Tre) | Mapping Literary Memory in the Aristotelian Problemata |
| 1300 | Lunch | |
| Panel 3 (Chair: George Gazis) | ||
| 1400 | Tazuko van Berkel (Leiden) | Fable |
| 1430 | Ewen Bowie (Oxford) | Lyric, Elegiac and Iambic Poets |
| 1500 | André Lardinois (Radboud Nijmegen) | Aristotle’s Use of Lyric Poetry in Theory and Practice |
| 1530 | Giulia Bonasio (Durham) | Retracing the kalliston game between in Theognis and Aristotle |
| 1600 | Tea | |
| Panel 4 (Chair: Lorenzo Iuliano) | ||
| 1630 | Chiara di Maio (Radboud Nijmegen) | The Initiator of Rhetoric: Empedocles, Metaphors and their Presence in Aristotle |
| 1700 | Anna Novokhatko (Trento) | Recasting Inquiry: Aristotle’s Transformation of Pre-Socratic and Herodotean Methods |
| 1730 | Pierre Destrée (UCLouvain) | Aristotle on how to use jokes in philosophical argumentation |
| 1800 | Reception | |
| 1930 | Dinner | |
| Wednesday 17th June | ||
| Panel 5 (Chair: Giulia Bernardini) | ||
| 1000 | Luuk Huitink (Amsterdam) | Xenophon |
| 1030 | Carlotta Capuccino (Bologna) and Giorgia Lugani (Cambridge) |
Aristotle, Reader of Plato |
| 1130 | Coffee | |
| Panel 6 (Chair: Wenhao Yang) | ||
| 1200 | Sabine Fӧllinger (Marburg) | The Use of Quotations in Aristotle’s Biological Treatise Generation of Animals |
| 1230 | Philip van der Eijk (HU Berlin) | Medical Genres |
| 1300 | Lunch (90 minutes to allow visits to the Cathedral) | |
| Panel 7 (Chair: Alessandro Vatri) | ||
| 1430 | Reviel Netz (Stanford) | Mathematical Genres |
| 1500 | Francesca Schironi (Michigan Ann Arbor) | Astronomical Works |
| 1530 | Marco Collatuzzo (Pisa) | A Glimpse of Aristotle Writing Literature: Literary Models and Myths in Aristotle’s Eudemus fr. 44 R3=6 WR |
| 1600 | Tea | |
| Concluding Panel (Chair: Edith Hall) | ||
| 1630 | Ineke Sluiter (Leiden) | Response to the Papers |
| 1700 | Carlo Natali (Venice) | Chair of Roundtable |
| 1800 | Pub | |
| 1930 | Dinner | |
Convenors: Edith Hall, Phillip Horky, Alessandro Vatri and Rosie Wyles
The conference is open to the public and will by hybrid. To register your attendance, please fill in this form.
