Colloquium 2025-2026

ΣΤΕΛΑ/LARES is pleased to announce its Colloquium for the academic year 2025-2026.

The Colloquium explores Latin literature and Roman culture, while also highlighting innovative teaching practices that revitalise the study and teaching of Classical Philology.

All sessions will be held online,every Thursday on 6:00 p.m. (Greek time), via Microsoft Teams.

You may join the sessions using the following link: https://shorturl.at/cGxDV

The programme in detail is as follows:

Thursday, 30 October 2025, 6pm – Gabriel Evangelou (Ionian University):‘Private Communication, Public Reconciliation: The Letter as a Means of Restoring Relationships in the Age of Cicero’ (in Greek)
Thursday, 27 November 2025, 6pm – Claudia Abbondanza (Sapienza University of Rome):‘Teaching Latin with ChatGPT’
Thursday, 29 January 2026, 6pm – Alessandro Lagioia (University of Bari Aldo Moro): Aldo Moro): ‘‘O misera domus Herculea: An Unpublished Study of the Heracles Myth in Humanism’ (in Greek)
Thursday, 26 February 2026, 6pm – Giovanbattista Galdi (Ghent University): ‘Lex Benedicti: Text and Language in the Regula Monachorum’
Thursday, 26 March 2026, 6pm – Zhiying Gu (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences):
‘An Overview of the Translation and Study of Cicero in China over the Past Century’
Thursday, 28 May 2026, 6pm – Helen Gasti (University of Ioannina): ‘Issues of Poetics in Seneca’s Troades: Soundscapes of Mourning’ ( in Greek)