LECTURE SERIES ON GREEK MYTHOLOGY 2022-23


 

Megaron of the Academy of Athens, East Hall, 17.00-19.00 (EEST)

 

Coordinator: Michael Konaris (mkonaris@academyofathens.gr)

 

PROGRAMME

 

Stephen Harrison (Oxford), ‘Psyche in the Nineteenth Century: Images from Art’, 15.12.2022 ZOOM

 

Joshua Billings (Princeton), ‘The Sophists, Myth, and the Gods,’17.1.2023 HYBRID

This lecture is co-organized with the Princeton University Athens Center for Research and Hellenic Studies and will take place there.

 

Robert Fowler (Bristol), ‘Friedrich Hölderlin and Pindar's Myths’, 16.2.2023 HYBRID

 

Scott Scullion (Oxford), ‘Myth, Literature, and Cult in Scholarly Constructions of Dionysos’, 9.3.2023 HYBRID

 

Fiona Macintosh (Oxford), ‘Iphigenia – a long view’, 23.3.2023 ZOOM

 

Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge (Collège de France), ‘Interpretative Paradigms and Greek Gods: Demeter as a Test Case’, 20.4.2023 ZOOM

 

Claude Calame (EHESS / AnHiMA, Paris), ‘Earth-Mother and Great Goddess: ecological and ecofeminist interpretations of the figures of Gaia and Demeter between myth and ritual’, 15.5.23 ZOOM

 

Glenn Most (Berlin/Chicago), ‘Heracles in Hesiod’, 5.6.2023 ZOOM

 

Jan Bremmer (Groningen) ‘Perseus between Female and Male Initiation: A Quest for an Elusive Hero’, 15.6.2023 HYBRID

 

Jingling Chen (Illinois), ‘In the Name of Prometheus: The Reception of Prometheus in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture’, 29.6.2023 ZOOM

 

To register your interest and receive the ZOOM links contact mkonaris@academyofathens.gr