International Conference: Narratology and Intertextuality: New Perspectives on Greek Epic from Homer

FECHA/DATE/DATA: 03-04/06/2016

LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas (IFIKK), Blindern Campus, Georg Morgenstiernes Hus, conference room n. 452 (4th floor), University of Oslo (Oslo, Norway)

ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Prof. Silvio Bär & Prof. Anastasia Maravela

INFO: silvio.baer@ifikk.uio.no

INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: email to silvio.baer@ifikk.uio.no

PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:

Friday 3 June 2016:

9:00-9:45 Introduction: Anastasia Maravela & Silvio Bär (Oslo): Narratology and Intertextuality: Where Does the Connection Lie?

9:45-10:30 Irene de Jong (Amsterdam): The Motif of Oreiskopia in Ancient Epic

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-11:45 Bruno Currie (Oxford): The Intertextuality of Iliad and Odyssey: A Narratological Perspective

11:45-12:30 Thomas A. Schmitz (Bonn): Epic Anastrophe from Homer to Nonnus

12:30-13:30 Lunch Break

13:30-14:15 Anastasia Maravela (Oslo): title tba

14:15-15:00 Silvio Bär (Oslo): Heracles from Homer to Nonnus: Narratological Character Analysis in a Diachronic Perspective

15:00-15:30 Coffee Break

15:30-16:15 Eric Cullhed & Dimitrios Iordanoglou (Uppsala): “In the Whirl of Dust”: Epic Obituaries from the Archaic to the Late Byzantine Eras

16:15-17:30 PhD Roundtable Discussion: Tine Scheijnen (Gent), Marcelina Gilka (Exeter), Carlos Hernández Garcés (Oslo)

19:00 Conference Dinner (Restaurant L’Ardoise)

Saturday 4 June 2016:

9:00-9:45 Berenice Verhelst (Gent): Epic Heroes on a Smaller Scale? Characterization Strategies in Four Imperial Greek ‘Epyllia’

9:45-10:30 Ingela Nilsson (Uppsala & Oslo): An Epic Novel and a Novelistic Epic: A Transtextual Approach to Heliodoros’ Aithiopika and Hero and Leander

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-11:45 Adam Goldwyn (North Dakota State University): Immorality and Amorality in Tzetzes’ Allegories of the Iliad and Allegories of the Odyssey

11:45-12:30 Concluding Roundtable Discussion

12:30 Lunch and Farewell