Conference series The classical world in Western reality

When literature became science: the origin of philology in Alexandria

Luis Arturo Guichard

Professor of Greek Philology - University of Salamanca

Series coordinator:

Marco Antonio Coronel Ramos

Professor of Classical Philology - Universitat de València

Luis Arturo Guichard is a Professor of Greek Philology at the University of Salamanca. Co-director of the Master's Degree in Lifelong Learning (previously, University-specific Degree) in Creative Writing in Spanish (University of Salamanca / UVirtual). Assistant Director of the Department of Classic Philology and Indo-European. Researcher responsible of the Grupo de Investigación Reconocido (GIR, a Research Group) Greece and Hellenism: religion, science and literature (Grecilit). His most recent translation is Quinientos epigramas griegos (Madrid, Cátedra, 2021). He also has a career as a writer. His most recent book is Lo demás te lo enseñará el relámpago (Barcelona, Vaso Roto, 2024).

Synopsis

Was philology born from a conversation between Callimachus, a poet, and Erathosthenes, a scientist, while they were having some glasses of wine? In this conference we will explore the birth of this odd invention in which science and literature merge, and we will also think about the first books that we preserve in Western world.

Free admission, limited capacity

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