Time and Eternity: The Conception of Time in Archaic Greek Literature - 22-23-24/09/2017, Charlottes
Time is a concept central to both the human existence and the narrative art: narrative occurs in time and presents or reconfigures a set of events that occur in time. Furthermore, time is an objective natural measure but in literature it appears malleable and can be shaped according to the rhetorical needs of the moment. In addition, time can be perceived in many ways (linear, circular, kairos). Literary reflections on time begin with the literature of the archaic age. For the first time, the Greeks started composing narratives and exploring their laws regarding the representation and ordering of time. Despite the progress made in the study of time in literature in recent years, there are still open questions as to how precisely time works in archaic texts and what they have to say about the ideas and conceptions of time held in that age.
Conveners: Anke Walter (University of Rostock), Athanassios Vergados (University of Heidelberg)
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 22-23-24/09/2017
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: University of Virgina, Charlottesville (Virginia, USA)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Anke Walter ; Athanassios Vergados ; Jenny Strauss Clay
INFO: web - anke.walter@uni-rostock.de - vergados@skph.uni-heidelberg.de
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September 22, 2017
9:30-9:45 Introductions; Welcome from the Chair of Classics, Sara Myers (UVa)
9:45-10:30 Jenny Strauss Clay (UVa): Orientations: “Time in Archaic Greek Literature”
10:30- 10:45 Coffee
Session I “Time and Metaphor”
10:45-11:30 Tom Zanker (Amherst): Conceptual Metaphor and Time in Homer
11:30-12:15 Robert A. Rohland (Cambridge): Getting a grasp on time. The emergence of a haptic conception of time in archaic Greek literature
12:30- 14:30 Lunch
Session II “Chasing Time”
14:30-15:15 Anastasia Maravela (Oslo): Chasing in time. Intersections of time and space in early Greek literature and thought
15:15-16:00 Stephen Sansom (Stanford): The Never-Ending Race: Eternity in the Hesiodic Shield of Heracles and Early Greek Philosophy
16:00-16:15 Coffee Session III “Epigrammatic Time”
16:15-17:00 Barnaby Chesterton (Durham/Texas Tech): Immediacy and Eternity in Archaic Sepulchral Epigram
17:00-17:30 Power Point Presentation on the Humboldt Foundation and its Programs
18:30-20:15 Reception at JSC’s house
September 23, 2017
Session IV “Time and the Presocratics”
9:00- 9:45 Christopher Moore (Penn State): Two orders of time in Heraclitus
9:45-10:30 Sandra Scepanovic (Belgrad): Some patterns of temporal cyclicality in archaic Greek literature and their philosophical conceptualization in the early Presocratics
10:30-10:45 Coffee Session V “Human Temporal Modalities”
10:45-11:30 Rudi Schmid (HU Berlin): Coping with contingency. Notions of time and their poetological aspects in Solon, Mimnermus and Sappho
11:30-12:15 Alex Purves (UCLA): Sappho’s “Lyric Present”
12:30-14:00 Lunch
Session VI “Futurity”
14:00-14:45 Michele Solitario (Trento/Göttingen): The Concept of Time in Solon’s Fragments
14:45-15:30 Sarah Nooter (Chicago): Writing the Future in Pindar and Aeschylus
15:30-15:45 Coffee
Session VII “Hesiodic Time”
15:45-16:30 Xenja Herren (Tübingen): The Cultural Meaning of Time in Hesiod’s Works and Days
16:30-17:15 Alexander Kirichenko (Berlin): The farming calendar and the epic time in Hesiod's Works and Days
18:30 Buffet Dinner for all participants, Garden Room
September 24, 2017
Session VIII “Homeric Temporality”
9:00-9:45 Athanassios Vergados (Newcastle): Revisiting Zieliński’s Law
9:45-10:30 Tobias Myers (Connecticut College): Temporal ‘Distance’ and Intimacy: Evoking the Eternal in Iliadic Warfare
10:30-10:45 Coffee
Session IX “Poetic and Divine Time”
10:45-11:30 Anke Walter (Rostock): ‘… how you first went over the earth’: Interactions of Human and Divine Time in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo
11:30-12:15 Jonas Grethlein (Heidelberg): Human and poetic time in Pindar
12:15-12:30 Coffee
12:30-13:15 General Remarks and Final Discussion