Ekphrasis and Greek Literature: From the Second Century CE to the Byzantine Era - 05-06/07/2018, Dur
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 05-06/07/2018
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Holgate Main Conference Room, Grey College, Durham University (Durham, England)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Arianna Gullo
INFO: web - arianna.gullo@durham.ac.uk
INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: gratis / free / gratuito Deadline: 20/06/2018
PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
THURSDAY 5 JULY
13:30-14:00: REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS
14:00-14:30: OPENING REMARKS
SESSION 1 - The Imperial Age
14:30-15:00
Chair: Calum Maciver
Lucia Floridi (Milan) - “Para-ekphrastic elements in Lucian’s Dialogues of the Sea-Gods”
15:00-15:15: Discussion
15:15-15:45
Chair: Arianna Gullo
Évelyne Prioux (CNRS, Paris Nanterre) - “The visual culture of Philostratus’ readers”
15:45-16:00: Discussion
16:00-16:30: COFFEE BREAK
SESSION 2 - Late Antiquity (I)
16:30-17:00
Chair: Lucia Floridi
Calum Maciver (Edinburgh): “Ekphrasis for the sake of ekphrasis in Late Antique Greek Epic”
17:00-17:15: Discussion
17:15-17:45
Chair: Andreas Rhoby
Laura Miguélez Cavero (Oxford): “Ekphrasis as a (non-)fictional mark: the test case of Nonnus’ Dionysiaca and Paraphrase”
17:45-18:00: Discussion
19:30: DINNER at The Cellar Door in Durham (41-42, Saddler Street)
FRIDAY 6 JULY
8:30-9:00: REFRESHMENTS
SESSION 3 - Late Antiquity (II)
9:00-9:30
Chair: Beatrice Daskas
Mary Whitby (Oxford): “Christodorus of Coptus on the statues in the baths of Zeuxippus”
9:30-9:45: Discussion
9:45-10:15
Chair: Évelyne Prioux
Arianna Gullo (Durham): “Ekphrastic epigrams from the Cycle of Agathias and the reader’s response”
10:15-10:30: Discussion
10:30-11:00: COFFEE BREAK
SESSION 4 - The Byzatine Era
11:00-11:30
Chair: Laura Miguélez Cavero
Andreas Rhoby (Vienna): “What we saw and marveled at in the fields, my friend …”. Byzantine Descriptions of Hunts: Texts and Contexts
11:30-11:45: Discussion
11:45-12:15
Chair: Mary Whitby
Beatrice Daskas (Venice): “Cosmic metaphors in Byzantine ekphraseis of buildings (6th-12th c.)”
12:15-12:30: Discussion
12:30-13:00: CONCLUSIONS
13:00-14:00: BUFFET LUNCH