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2024 Fountain Symposium

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Ninth Annual Celia M. Fountain Symposium

Greek Myths from Egyptian Sands: Discovering the New Euripides

Saturday, September 14, 2024
11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. MDT (GMT/UTC-6)
Cofrin Auditorium (Atlas 100, �� Boulder) and via live-stream

A link to the video recording of the Symposium is available here

A complete program is available here: Fountain Symposium - 2024 Program

In November of 2022, a team of archaeologists led by Basem Gehad of the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities recovered several papyri from a simple grave in the cemetery of Philadelphia in the Fayoum. The best preserved includes nearly 100 lines from two otherwise lost plays by the Athenian playwright Euripides - the most significant discovery of new tragedy in nearly 60 years. CƯ's Yvona Trnka-Amrhein, the team's papyrological expert, invited her colleague John Gibert, a specialist in Greek drama, to join her and Dr. Gehad in preparing the first edition of the text: here, for the first time in nearly 2,000 years readers will encounter gripping scenes from two plays based on little-known but intriguing incidents from the mythical careers of Dionysus' aunt Ino/Leucothea, the Cretan king Minos, and the seer Polyidus. The Ninth Annual Celia M. Fountain Symposium will introduce the discovery and explore its contexts in archaeology, literature, mythology, and vase painting.

The papyrus was officially published on August 27, 2024, in the Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (vol. 230, pp. 1–40). It will take a while for it to reach libraries, but you may view the table of contents here.
Rob Cioffi discusses the papyrus in the London Review of Books here: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n18/robert-cioffi/euripides-unbound
Colorado Public Radio’s Anthony Cotton (“Colorado Matters”) discusses the papyrus and the upcoming Symposium with Yvona and John here: https://www.cpr.org/show-segment/digging-into-the-greek-life-cu-scholars-interpret-rare-euripidian-find/
Brown University Professor Johanna Hanink discuses the papyrus with John and Yvona on her podcast Λέσχη here: https://leschepodcast.buzzsprout.com/
In June, 2024, Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies hosted a two-day conference devoted to further exploration of the newly discovered text by specialists. The proceedings will eventually be published in an online, open-access book, but in the meantime, there is information about the conference here and here, including a repertory of conjectures and several pre-prints (or choose Preprints from the Publications pull-down menu on the main page).
This discovery was recently featured in ��'s Arts & Sciences Magazine: Uncovered Euripides fragments are ‘kind of a big deal’
On September 4, 2024, the Times Literary Supplement (London) published “Greek tragedies from an Egyptian tomb: Discovering a new Euripides papyrus,” by Bill Allan.

The Fountain Symposium is sponsored by the generous support of Celia M. Fountain, the Bruce D. Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization, and the Classics Department.
It is free and open to the public

classics@colorado.edu | www.colorado.edu/classics | 303-492-6257

Ninth Annual Celia M. Fountain Symposium: "Greek Myths from Egyptian Sands: Discovering the New Euripides"

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Fountain Lecture: "Eurydice, Mother of Philip II of Macedon, and the Power of Memory"

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The Celia M. Fountain 2022 Webinar

Eurydice, Mother of Philip II of Macedon, and the Power of Memory

Professor Elizabeth Carney

Thursday, September 15, 7:00 p.m. on Zoom
Free and Open to Public
REGISTER HERE

ABSTRACT

Study of ancient Argead Macedonia used to focus nearly exclusively on Philip II and his son Alexander III the Great. Daily life, social and religious practices, and material culture got little attention, especially in connection to the political world. Royal women appeared not as participants in monarchy but as its colorful window dressing. Heavy dependence on literary sources generated narrow readings of the Macedonian past. What little that was known about Eurydice, mother of Philip II and grandmother of Alexander the Great, depended on works created and perpetuated by the tiny literate class of the ancient world, works largely written about five centuries after Eurydice’s death, providing Roman, only indirectly Macedonian, memory of Eurydice.

This literary tradition portrays Eurydice as a powerful woman, who as a royal mother, led a court faction and engaged in Macedonian power politics, but It permits her no middle ground; she is either a heroic mother or a murderous one who puts her lover’s interests in place of those of her sons. A Plutarchian essay, however, does preserve an inscription, once associated with a dedication, that demonstrates that Eurydice worked to shape public memory about herself.

That is all we knew about Eurydice until, at Vergina (a modern village, almost certainly the site of ancient Aegae, the older Macedonian capital and burial place of the Argead kings), the first archaeological information about Eurydice emerged in 1982 when Chrysoula Saatsoglou-Paliadeli and her team began to excavate an area now known as the sanctuary of Eucleia. They found dedications by Eurydice to the goddess Eucleia and, nearby, other evidence of Eurydice’s presence in Aegae. Gradually, they uncovered indications of the enduring veneration of Eurydice’s dedications and of the sanctuary, veneration that continued into the first century CE, nearly four centuries after it began. This archaeological evidence derives, primarily, from the actions of Eurydice herself and from the practices (architectural, religious) of centuries of Macedonians. These two bodies of evidence about Eurydice—literary and archaeological-- offer different pictures of Eurydice’s past and that of Macedonia. This physical evidence indicates how memory of Eurydice, her family, the Argead dynasty, and the Macedonian kingdom, evolved: It gives us a more Macedonian Eurydice. Over time, however, the sanctuary acquired other layers of meaning; it encompassed memory and veneration of a lost and grander past and of the family that helped to bring about that grandness and yet it also linked that past grandeur to a less grand present. Relatively soon after Eurydice’s death, the sanctuary may have become a place for the secret burial of the very last Argeads. The structures of the sanctuary doubled in size under the new Antigonid dynasty, in a way that highlighted Eurydice’s dedication. After the Roman conquest the sanctuary endured as other cults at Vergina faded away. When whatever event in the early first century CE caused the city to be abandoned, those still possessing some wealth and power, as well as nostalgia, organized an elaborate burial and funeral feast for the remains of the Eucleia cult and the dedications of its most famous patron.

Dr. Elizabeth D. Carney

is the Carol K. Brown Professor emerita in Humanities at Clemson University. She is the author or editor of Woman and Monarchy in Ancient Macedonia (2000), Olympias, Mother of Alexander the Great (2006), Philip II, Alexander III: Father and Son, Lives and Afterlives (2010), Arsinoe of Egypt and Macedon: A Royal Life (2013), King and Court in Macedonia: Rivalry, treason and conspiracy (2015), Royal Women and Dynastic Loyalty (2018), Eurydice and the Birth of Macedonian Power (2019), and The Routledge Companion to Women and Monarchy in the Ancient Mediterranean World (2020).

This is the second online event sponsored by Dr. Celia Fountain, after last year's webinar featuring Professor Paul Cartledge. For all events - lectures, webinars, and symposia - sponsored by Dr. Fountain, click here.

The Celia M. Fountain 2022 Webinar with Professor Elizabeth Carney; Thursday, September 15, 7:00 p.m.

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Learning From the Past: Classics and the Contemporary World

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The Celia M. Fountain 2021 Webinar

Learning from the Past: Classics and the Contemporary World
Prof. Paul Cartledge, University of Cambridge

Tuesday, May 25 | 11:00am MDT | Virtual Webinar

Painting of the Reconstruction Of The Acropolis And Areopagus In Athens by Leo Von Klenze

This webinar explores contemporary political and social issues, including the nature of populism and authoritarianism and the treatment of disenfranchised groups, through the lens of ancient Athens and its extraordinary democracy with Prof. Paul Cartledge, emeritus A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at the University of Cambridge.

Paul Cartledge is a world-renowned Classicist and expert on ancient Greece, whose recent books include Democracy: A Life (2018) and Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece (2020). In 2021, he received the Commander of the Order of Honor from the Greek government for enhancing the reputation of Greece.

This lecture is free and will be hosted on Zoom.

Click here to register

This lecture is sponsored by Dr. Celia M. Fountain. �� Classics is grateful for her generous support.

View the Poster here

The Celia M. Fountain 2021 Webinar - Explore contemporary political and social issues, including the nature of populism and authoritarianism and the treatment of disenfranchised groups, through the lens of ancient Athens and its extraordinary democracy.

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2024 Fountain Symposium

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Fountain Lecture: "Eurydice, Mother of Philip II of Macedon, and the Power of Memory"

The Celia M. Fountain 2022 Webinar

Eurydice, Mother of Philip II of Macedon, and the Power of Memory

Professor Elizabeth Carney

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Learning From the Past: Classics and the Contemporary World

The Celia M. Fountain 2021 Webinar

Learning from the Past: Classics and the Contemporary WorldProf. Paul Cartledge, University of Cambridge

Tuesday, May 25 | 11:00am MDT | Virtual Webinar

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Learning from the Past: Classics and the Contemporary World
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