8.30 Attendance Recording
9.00 Institutional greetings
Giovanni PANZERI, Campus Director
9.30 Introduction and Chairmanship
Marco RIZZI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Morning section
Aeneas and the Sibyl, or the catabasis of sapiens
Luigi PIROVANO, University of Bologna
A contested infernal anabasis: the episode of Alletto in Book VII of the Aeneid
Massimo RIVOLTELLA, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
11.15-11.45 Coffee-break
Quam multa Lycoride Gallus mortuus inferna vulnera lavit aqua! - The 'catabasis' of Gallus in Propertius (II 34, 91-92)
Alfredo VISCOMI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
The denied catabasis: observations on the variant antris/astris in Virgil, Georgiche IV 509
Giuseppe BOCCHI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Virgil's auctoritas between law and morality: the case of Aen. VI 624 in the light of ancient commentaries
Elia Angelo CORSINI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
13.00 Lunch break
14.30 Afternoon section
A happy ending for Orpheus. In the margin of Ovid, Met. XI 61-66
Matteo VERZELETTI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Ericetus, the anti-Sibyl and the revelation of the corpse in Lucan VI 454 ff.
Silvia STUCCHI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Two examples of indirect catabasis: the defixiones of Cremona and Laus Pompeia
Riccardo BRAGA, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
The catabasis as poetarum fabula in Ambrose of Milan's De bono mortis
Emilio GIAZZI, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
16.00 Conclusion
Scientific organization: Massimo Rivoltella, Elia Angelo Corsini
Notes for teachers: the study day is part of the teacher training and refresher courses carried out by universities automatically recognised by the school administration, in accordance with current legislation, and give rise - for teachers of all levels - to the legal and economic effects of participation in training initiatives.
