An interdisciplinary conference, which seeks to bring together scholars working in a variety of fields to encourage debate on eighteenth-century approaches to antiquity.

Programme:
09.00 – Registration
9.30 – 10.30 Panel 1 – Antiquity and Representation
• Thomas Hopkinson (Lancaster) The ‘Nymphs’ of the Fountain of Arethusa and Representations of Classical Sicily in Travel Works c. 1770–1850
• Nicole Cochrane (Hull) – Reception Theory and Material Culture in the Gentleman’s Sculpture Gallery
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee and Tea Break
11.00 – 12.00 Panel 2 – Antiquity and Revisionism
• Marta Dieli (Independent) The Enlightenment and the Teaching of Ancient Greek Grammar in Greece
• Alexander Jordan (Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, Turin) – Epicureanism and Stoicism beyond the Scottish Enlightenment: Thomas Carlyle as Critic of David Hume
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch
13.00-14.00 Panel 3 – Antiquity and Politics
• Alan Montgomery (Birkbeck College, London) – “An all-grasping rapacious nation”: Celebrating the Rejection of Rome in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
• Flora Champy (ENS Lyon – Rutgers) – Rousseau’s Rome: A Model or an Inspiration?
14.00 – 14.20 Coffee and Tea Break
14.20 – 15.50 Panel 4 – Antiquity and Religion
• Anthony Ellis (Bern) – The Jealous God of Ancient Greece: Early-Modern and Enlightenment Theories on τὸ θεῖον φθονερόν, between Theology, Anthropology, and Classical Scholarship
• Kelsey Jackson Williams (St Andrews) – Innovation and Heresy: Episcopalianism, Catholicism, and Antiquarianism in Enlightenment Scotland
• Marco Duranti (Verona) – “I do not believe that any God is bad” (Eur. IT 391) – The Euripidean Premises for the Religious Message of Goethe’s Iphigenie auf Tauris
15.50 – 16.10 Coffee and Tea Break
16.10-17.30 Keynote lecture
• Anthony Ossa-Richardson (Southampton) – The Comedies of Plattus
17.30 – 18.30 Wine Reception
19.00 Dinner