Please find below the programme for our one-day symposium Classical Literature in the Renaissance. Attendance is free, but registration in advance is requested: please contact Luke Houghton [lhought2@ed.ac.uk].

CLASSICAL LITERATURE IN THE RENAISSANCE

Tuesday 9 June 2026

School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh

Meadows Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh

10:00-10:10  Welcome

Session 1: Engaging with the Classics

Chair: Justin Stover (Edinburgh)

10:10-11:00  Leah Whittington (Harvard)

‘Writing Like and As: Versions of Classical Presence from Petrarch to Vegio’

11:00-11:20  Tea and Coffee – Jim McMillan Room (1.31)

Session 2:  Literary and Cultural Translations

Chair: Emma Buckley (St Andrews)

11:20-12:10  Stuart Gillespie (Glasgow)

‘What happened when Renaissance English Writers encountered Renaissance English Translations of Ancient Texts?’

12:10-1:00  Sarah Knight (Leicester)

‘Christopher Marlowe, Translator’

1:00-2:00  Lunch – Jim McMillan Room (1.31)

Session 3: From Greek to Latin

Chair: Max Leventhal (Edinburgh)

2:00-2:50  Marianne Pade (Aarhus)

‘Imitatio and Intertextuality in Humanist Translation’

3:00-4:00  Viewing of manuscripts, incunabula, and early printed editions, Centre for Research Collections, Edinburgh University Library, George Square

4:00-4:20  Tea and Coffee – Jim McMillan Room (1.31)

Session 4: Studying Classical Literature in Renaissance Culture

4:20-5:00  Round table discussion

Emma Buckley, Jill Burke, Stuart Gillespie, Luke Houghton, Richard Oosterhoff, Marianne Pade, Syrithe Pugh, Leah Whittington

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