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To learn more about the speakers, click here MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 16:00 – 16:15 Welcome Introduction Ellie Mackin (Leicester/ICS), Maciej Paprocki (LMU Munich), Gary Vos (Edinburgh) 16:15 – 17:15 Keynote Lecture Nyx, Styx, and Hecate in Hesiod’s Theogony Jenny Strauss Clay (University of Virginia) 18:15 Conference dinner - Al Torchio - Amalienstraße 42 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 09:00 – 11:00 Session 1 Gods gone native? Kirke, Aeëtes and Medea pitted against Olympian-backed heroes Maciej Paprocki (LMU Munich) Negotiating immortality or ablating bodies: the Ouranian Eos in Zeus’ weighing of souls Eleonora Colangelo (Paris Diderot University / AnHiMA Centre (Paris) / University of Pisa) 11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break 11:30 - 13:30 Session 2 Locals in the Underworld: Demeter, Hades, and Persephone in Hermione Ellie Mackin (University of Leicester/Institute of Classical Studies) Characterisation and colour within the representation of Sleep in the Iliad Yukiko Saito (University of Liverpool / Kyoto Seika University) 13:30 – 15:00 Lunch 15:00 - 17:00 Session 3 Eros as a nethergod Natasha M. Binek (Cornell University) Drakainai: the phenomenon of the female anguipede Daniel Ogden (University of Exeter) WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 9:00 - 11:00 Session 4 A faux Hesiodic genealogy in the Aeneid: Fama’s stemma and Its ramifications Gary Vos (University of Edinburgh) Divine dealers and distributors – Demeter, Damia, and other daimones Fritz-Gregor Herrmann (Swansea University) 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break 11:30 - 12:30 Session 5 Hades, Zeus, Demeter: the ruler, the farmer, and the god of death Diana Burton (Victoria University of Wellington) 12:30 - 13:30 Drinks break 13:30 - 15:00 Lunch 15:00 - 17:00 Session 6 Hell is for the living: the allegorization of Hades as air and its consequences Marco Antonio Santamaría Álvarez (University of Salamanca) Heralds of light and messengers of darkness – dreams and the poetics of miscommunication George A. Gazis (University of Durham) THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 9:00 - 11:00 Session 7 New gods? Gigantomachy and the old generation of heroes in the Iliad and the Odyssey Katarzyna Kostecka (University of Warsaw) Gigantomachy and Titanomachy: cosmic stasis David J. Wright (Rutgers University) 11:00 - 11:15 Refreshment Break 11:15 - 12:00 Session 10 Roundtable discussion and closing remarks |
