CONF: Crisis on Stage:Tragedy and Comedy in Late Fifth-Century Athens

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3rdTrends in Classics Conference on Greek Drama

Crisis on Stage:

Tragedy and Comedy in Late Fifth-Century Athens

Thessaloniki, December 3-6, 2009 (Auditorium of the Archaeological Museum)

December 3, 2009

17.30-18.30: Reception – Registration

18.30-19.00: Opening Ceremony

Opening Keynote Address

19.00-19.30: Bernhard Zimmermann (University of Freiburg)

19.30-20.00: Ruth Scodel (University of Michigan), Philoctetes and Political Nostalgia

20.00-20.30: Guido Avezzu (University of Verona), The Crisis of Political Representation: Sophocles’ Philoctetes

20.30-21.00: Poulcheria Kyriakou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Kairos and Kratos: The Chorus of Philoctetes and Present Opportunity

December 4, 2009

10.00-10.30: Suzanne Said (Columbia University), Athens and Athenian Space in Oedipus at Colonus

10.30-11.00: Andrea Rodighiero (University of Verona), The Sense of Place: Oedipus at Colonus, ‘Political’ Geography and the Defense of a Way of Life

11.00-11.30: Richard Hunter (University of Cambridge), Euripides’ Ion: Nothing to Do with Nietzsche?

11.30-12.00: Claude Calame (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris), Myth and Performance on the Attic Stage: Praxithea, Erechtheus, their Daughters and the Aetiology of Athenian Authochthony

12.30-13.00: Marco Fantuzzi (University of Macerata), The Dream of the Charioteer (728-803) in the Rhesus Ascribed to Euripides

13.00-13.30: Konstantina Gakopoulou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Euripides’ Bakchen: Ende einer Epoche oder Beginn einer neuen?

13.30-14.00: Horst-Dieter Blume (University of Munster), Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis

14.00-14.30: Andreas Markantonatos (University of Peloponnese), Leadership in Action: Wise Policy and Firm Resolve in Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis

December 5, 2009

10.30-11.00: Alan Sommerstein (University of Nottingham), Problem Kids: Young Males and Society from Electra to Bacchae

11.00-11.30: Georgia Xanthakis-Karamanos (University of Peloponnese), The ‘Dionysiac’ Plays of Aeschylus and Euripides’ Bacchae: Re-Affirming Traditional Religion and Cult in Late Fifth-Century BC

11.30-12.00: Daniel Iakov (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Fragmenting the Self: Society and Psychology in Euripides’ Electra and Ion

12.30-13.00: Francis Dunn (University of California, Santa Barbara), Transcending Crisis: Metadrama and Metaphysics in Bacchant Women and Oedipus at Colonus

13.00-13.30: Anna Lamari (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), The Return of the Father:Euripides’ Antiope, Hypsipyle and Phoenissae

15.30-16.00: Patrick Finglass (University of Nottingham), Sophocles’ Theseus

16.00-16.30: Sophie Mills (University of North Carolina at Asheville), Genos, Gennaios and Athens in the Later Tragedies of Sophocles

16.30-17.00: Ioanna Karamanou (University of Peloponnese), Euripides’ ‘Family Reunion Plays’ and their Possible Socio-Political Affiliations

17.30-18.00: Roberto Nicolai (University of Rome, La Sapienza), Paradigmi Mitici in Euripide: La Crisi del Mito

18.00-18.30: Thalia Papadopoulou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Altruism, Sovereignty, and the Degeneration of Imperial Hegemony in Greek Tragedy and Thucydides

December 6, 2009

10.30-11.00: Anton Bierl (University of Basel), Women on the Acropolis: Comic Body-Politics, Ritual and Metaphor in Aristophanes’ Lysistrata

11.00-11.30: Antonis Tsakmakis (University of Cyprus), Persians, Oligarchs and Festivals: The Date of Lysistrata and Thesmophoriazusae

11.30-12.00: Ian Storey (Trent University), Comedy and Crises

Closing Keynote Speech

12.30-13.00: David Rosenbloom (Victoria University of Wellington), The Subversive Stage: Democracy and its Discontents in Late Fifth-Century Drama

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