That Other Crowd. Nethergods in the ancient Greek mythical imagination -04-05-06-07/09/2017, München
Analogously to ancient Greek religion, the body of the ancient Greek myth seems to distinguish between two ranks of deities. The first rank comprises Olympians: Zeus’ extended family, prototypical gods, ageless and immortal, living in bliss on radiant Mt Olympus. By exclusion, the second, extremely heterogeneous group encompasses all the remaining deities, not necessarily anthropomorphic and often associated with darker and grimmer forces of the world. Coming from ‘peripheral’ branches of the divine family tree, these non-Olympian divinities inhabit liminal spaces far from Olympian gods and men, hidden at the margins of Olympus-centred mythologies, geographies and narratives. Cunning, uncanny, awesome and enchanting, they stand in contrast to Olympians and their ways, but nonetheless perform crucial—even if underappreciated—roles in upholding the regime of Zeus. Confirmed speakers: Jenny Strauss Clay (UVA); Diana Burton (Victoria/ICS); Daniel Ogden (Exeter); George A. Gazis (Durham); Ellie Mackin (ICS/Leicester); Maciej Paprocki (LMU Munich); Gary Vos (Edinburgh).
FECHA/ DATE/DATA: 04-05-06-07/09/2017
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Distant Worlds Graduate School, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (München, Germany)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Ellie Mackin (Leicester); Maciej Paprocki (LMU Munich); Gary Vos (Edinburgh).
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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 Nux, Styx, and Hecate in Hesiod’s Theogony Jenny Strauss Clay (University of Virginia) 18:00 Conference dinner at a local restaurant TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 09:00 – 11:00 Session 1
Gods gone native? Kirke, Aeëtes and Medea set 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 - 12:30 Session 2
Locals in the Underworld: Demeter, Hades, and Persephone in Hermione Ellie Mackin (University of Leicester/Institute of Classical Studies) 12:30 – 13:30 Lunch 13:30 - 15:30 Session 3
Characterisation and colour within the representation of Sleep in the Iliad Yukiko Saito (University of Liverpool / Kyoto Seika University) Eros as a nethergod Natasha M. Binek (Cornell University) 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break 16:00 - 17:00 Session 4
Drakainai: the phenomenon of the female anguipede Daniel Ogden (University of Exeter) WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 9:00 - 11:00 Session 5
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 6
Hades, Zeus, Demeter: the ruler, the farmer, and the god of death Diana Burton (Victoria University of Wellington) 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch 13:30 - 15:30 Session 7
Death casts 'bones': Greek embodiments of fate
Karolina Sekita (Oxford University) Hell is for the living: the allegorization of Hades as air and its consequences
Marco Antonio Santamaría Álvarez (University of Salamanca) 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break 16:00 - 17:00 Session 8
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 9
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 - 11:30 Coffee Break 11:30 - 12:30 Session 10
Roundtable discussion and closing remarks