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The Olympian Gods: Local Representations, Universal Principles
Department of Classics & Ancient History, Durham University
5th – 7th July 2009This interdisciplinary workshop investigates how the local characteristics with which the Greeks invested their gods related to the view that they operated as universal principles within the cosmic economy. Everyone is welcome, and there is no registration fee. Places are available at dinner in Hatfield College on Monday, 6th July (please e-mail barbara.graziosi AT dur.ac.uk).
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*6th July*
ROBIN OSBORNE, The style of the Gods
FRITZ GRAF, Divine Epithets
BARBARA GRAZIOSI, Divine Travel
MARIANNE SCHIEBE, ‘Air is Ether’s sister and consort.’ Primeval metaphor & the anthropomorphic image of the divine.
SHAUL TOR, Parmenides and the Love of Double Headed
IVANA PETROVIC, Divine powers in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo: an allegorical interpretation
LIZ IRWIN, Anthropomorphic gods and deified emotions in Euripides’ /Hippolytus/
*7th July*
SARAH ILES JOHNSTON, Demeter in Hermione: Local Variations on a Panhellenic Theme
ANDREJ PETROVIC, Chaining Ares: Panhellenic narratives, local cults
JULIA KINDT, The Local and the Panhellenic Reconsidered: Representations of Zeus at Olympia
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All sessions will take place at 38, North Bailey, Durham DH1 3EU (opposite Hatfield College). For further details please contact: barbara.graziosi AT dur.ac.uk or g.r.boys-stones AT dur.ac.uk.
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