PETRONIUS

Performance, Spectacle and Theatricality in the Cena
Cena Trimalchionis & the Tradition of Roman Banqueting Literature
Cena Trimalchionis & the Greek Symposiastic Tradition
The Architecture of Trimalchio's House
Language and Linguistic Features (e.g. "freedmen's speech")
Representation of Slaves & Slavery
Representation of Freedmen
Women in the Cena
Katabasis/the Underworld in the Cena
Reception (e.g. Fellini)
Funerary Monument in the Cena
Intertextuality
Satyricon as an Odyssey
Sexuality in the Cena
Narratological Methods
The Art in Trimalchio's House/Ekphrasis
Trimalchio's Inscriptions
Grotesque Bodies in the Cena
Trimalchio's Astrology
Word/Concept/Theme Study in the Cena

LUCAN

Narratological Methods
Metapoetics
Use of Dramatic Speech
Aspects of Style
The Sublime in Lucan
Women & Gender in Bellum Civile
Environment/Environmentalism in Bellum Civile
Word/Concept/Theme Study in Bellum Civile
Performance, Spectacle and Theatricality
Trauma & Violence in Bellum Civile
Dreams in Lucan
Bellum Civile as a Historical Source
Epic Ekphrasis
Intertextuality (e.g. engagement with Vergil)
The Supernatural
Fate & the Divine
Monsters & the Grotesque
Philosophy/Stoicism in Bellum Civile
Reception
Posthumanism in Lucan

SENECA

Place of Epistulae Morales in the ancient Epistolary Tradition
Representation of Slaves & Slavery
The Senecan Stoic’s Engagement with his Contemporary World
Happiness & the Good (Life) in Epistulae Morales
Epistulae Morales & the Ancient Tradition of Diatribe
Reception of Letters
Stoicism & the Tragedies
Metatheater
Performance
Seneca & his Roman Dramatic Predecessors (e.g. Pacuvius)
Seneca's Use of (non-theatrical) Intertexts (e.g. Augustan poets)
The Sublime
Gender
Pragmatics
Environment/Environmentalism in Epistulae Morales
Seneca's Tragic/Disrupted Cosmos
Seneca & Greek Tragedy (conventions, etc.)

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