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Terence’s Phormio (2024)

In anticipation of the one-day conference on Friday 8 March, there will be a weekly seminar on Terence’s Phormio during Hilary (Spring) term 2024. 

This will bring together the ‘close reading’ typical of the Oxford seminar, with big-picture methodological discussion, to create a better understanding of how we have, how we might, and how we should, interpret Terentian comedy. 

Graduate students and early career researchers will introduce select passages, before we open up to the room for roundtable discussion. Anyone can participate. It is by no means expected that participants will have any prior knowledge of Phormio or of Roman comedy in general. In fact, our aim is to bring a range of different approaches to bear on the text.