"The ties that bind: Pietas in Catullus"

Yelena Baraz 
Kennedy Foundation Professor of Latin
Language and Literature, Princeton University

Thursday, May 7th, 5:00pm-7:00pm
Hemmerdinger Screening Room 706
Hunter College (68th and Lex.), East Building

Please bring a photo ID and enter through the main lobby of Hunter West at the SW corner of 68th and Lex. See the poster below and attached for further details.

Prof. Baraz has kindly shared the following abstract:

This talk proposes a set of connections through the disparate parts of Catullus’ corpus by focusing on the role of pietas, a concept central to Roman identity, which governs relationships between family members in accordance with a divine mandate. From abuse directed at false friends, to a hoped for quasi-marriage with his beloved, to grief at the loss of his brother, pietas provides a surprising foundation for building a poetics of shared concerns.

Poster shows two men sitting on stone seats, one holds a book and stylus. Two other men standing face them.