Margot Neger
Born in Graz, Austria, I gained my MA (2005) in Classics in Graz and my PhD (2011) in Munich, Germany, with a thesis on the epigrammatist Martial (published as "Martials Dichtergedichte. Das Epigramm als Medium der poetischen Selbstreflexion", Tübingen 2012). In Munich I have been a member of the interdisciplinary graduate-program “Textualität in der Vormoderne” from 2007-2008 and thereafter a member of staff in the Classics Department from 2008-2013. In March 2013 I joined the Department of Classics at the University of Salzburg, Austria, where I held a position as a postdoctoral researcher and as the principal investigator of a projecte entitled "Embedded poems in ancient prose letters" funded by the Austrian Scienece Fund (FWF). In May 2019 I completed my habilitation at the University of Salzburg with a monograph on Pliny the Younger's narrative strategies in his letters (title: "Epistolare Narrationen. Studien zur Erzähltechnik des jüngeren Plinius", Tübingen 2021). In 2019 I have been appointed as Assistant Professor of Latin at the Department of Classics and Philosophy at the University of Cyprus, in 2024 I have been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor. My research-interests are Greek and Roman epigram, epistolography, Greek and Roman imperial and late antique literature, and ancient literary criticism.
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Phone: +357 22 893846
Address: Department Office: 1 Eressou Street, First Floor
Correspondence Address:
P.O. Box 20537
CY-1678 Nicosia, Cyprus
https://www.ucy.ac.cy/directory/en/profile/mneger01
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We welcome papers which address these and similar questions. In addition, we also invite papers which explore the archaeological contexts of carmina minora such as verse inscriptions.
Papers: The language of the conference is English. The time allocated for a paper is 20-25 minutes, with a further 5-10 minutes allowed for questions or discussion.
Pliny’s Epistolary Intertextuality
Department of Classics and Philosophy, University of Cyprus
Friday 11th – Saturday 12th May 2018
Dr Spyridon Tzounakas and Dr Margot Neger are pleased to announce the International Conference “Pliny’s Epistolary Intertextuality”, which will be held in the Department of Classics and Philosophy, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus (11 – 12 May 2018).
Although recent years have seen a sharp increase in the number of studies that deal with Pliny’s intertextual and intergeneric relations (especially with Cicero, Tacitus, Quintilian, Martial and Catullus), there is still a lot of room for research in this area. This conference invites papers that explore any aspect of Pliny’s intertextuality in his Letters and welcomes various approaches.
The paper examines how the relationship between Symmachus and his father is fashioned in the opening section of the letter collection and which function the embedded poems have within this correspondence.
The project focuses prose letters into which epigrams, elegiac and lyrical poems of various length are embedded. It examines how the tradition of “small-scale-poetry” (in contrast to the big genres of epic and drama) is integrated into an epistolary frame and how this epistolary subgenre develops from Classical to late antiquity. After in the first century AD writers such as Martial and Pliny the Younger had already experimented with this kind of genre-crossing, it became very popular in the 4th and 5th century (Ausonius, Sidonius Apollinaris). The following questions will be asked: In which thematic contexts do letter-writers insert poems into their prose-letters? Which functions do these poetic insertions fulfil within the correspondence? How do the prosaic and the poetic sections reflect on each other? How do these letters relate both to pure verse epistles and to other genres where prose and poetry are mixed? Especially the following contexts, in which ancient letter-writers used to combine prose with poems, will build the core of the investigation: 1. Prose-prefaces to poems and poetry-books, 2. Self-quotation and promotion of poetic skills, 3. Quotation and literary criticism, 4. Poems as media of persuasion, and 5. Poems as a mirror of the act of communication.