Data: 14 a 16 de Outubro de 2025 | 14h00-17h00

Local: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa | C010.C

Organização: Centro de Estudos Clássicos

Mais informações: Neste website

Masterclass Ancient Storytelling:
Irene de Jong (University of Amsterdam)
FLUL - C010.C, 14 e 16 Outubro: Masterclass
FLUL – Anf. III, 17 de Outubro: Public lecture: “Shakespeare’s The Rape of Lucrece and the tradition of the ecphrasis”

The masterclass consists of two sessions of 3 hours. Before the start of the masterclass students read I.J.F. de Jong, Narratology and Classics. An introductory Guide, chapters 2, 3, 4.
The sessions are interactive: we read together texts (in English translation, but for details we may look at the Greek or Latin) and discuss questions posed by the instructor. Discussions focus on narratological aspects but may also include what commentaries have to say.
A syllabus with the three chapters and all texts (original and translation) to be discussed will be provided.

Tuesday 14 October, C010.B, 14h00 -17h00
Session one: Beginnings
The beginning of a narrative is a crucial moment. Narratees have to be persuaded to give up all other thoughts and devote their attention to a world created by words. Authors thus always pay much attention to the start of their text. We will look at a sampling of narrative openings in Greek and Latin texts and investigate the various strategies employed by authors.

Thursday 16 October, C010.B, 14h00 -17h00
Session two: the Judgement of Paris
The story of the judgement of Paris is told by many authors. In this session we will look at six versions (Cypria 1, Homer Iliad 24.25-30, Euripides Andromache 274-30, Euripides Troades 914-37, Ovid Heroides 16.39-86, Colluthus The Rape of Helen 59-191), and investigate how differences in narrator, focalization, and temporal aspects give them a very different feel.

Friday 17 October, - Anf. III - 11h00
Public lecture: Shakespeare’s The Rape of Lucrece and the tradition of the ecphrasis
One of the most productive narrative devices which antiquity bequeathed to later literature is the ecphrasis. A wonderful example is the painting of Troy’s fall that Lucrece looks at while waiting for her husband to return (and then kill herself) in Shakespeare’s The Rape of Lucrece. Strikingly, Lucrece’s reaction to the painting is longer than the ecphrasis itself. In my paper I will first present an overview of the roles of viewers in ancient ecphrases and then discuss Shakespeare’s original handling of the viewing of Lucrece.