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WATER IN MYTHS AND CULTS
A one-day workshop organised at Durham University, sponsored by the
Durham Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) & the Centre for the Study of
the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East (CAMNE)Date: Thursday 24 June 2010
Venue: Dept. of Classics & Ancient History; 38 North Bailey; Durham DH1
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PROGRAMME
10.30 – 10.50 COFFEE
10.50 – 11.00 Welcome
11.00 – 11.45 Mark Woolmer (Durham)
Sea monsters and seafarers: the religious
symbolisation of Phoenician ships11.45 – 12.30 Etienne Dunant (Warwick)
Water in Greek sacred places – power, cult and
spatial narratives12.30 – 13.15 Maria Pretzler (Swansea)
Healing waters on the ‘magic mountain’: Aelius
Aristeides in context13.15 – 14.30 LUNCH
14.30 – 15.15 Rubina Raja (Aarhus)
What does water have to do with it? The role of
water in sanctuaries in the Roman Near East15.15 – 16.00 Peter Alpass (Durham)
Water in the cult monuments of Nabataea16.00 – 16.30 TEA
16.30 – 17.15 Michael Sommer (Liverpool)
God of the healing waters: Grannus and the
enchanted emperor17.30 onwards Drinks & dinner in town
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