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Pentheus’ Myth Beyond Euripides

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 19:44:50 +0000

Pentheus’ Myth Beyond Euripides Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 10/26/2023 - 13:44

Pentheus’ Myth Beyond Euripides

Tuesday, November 14, 5:30 p.m.
Eaton Humanities Building, #190

Speaker: Dr. Bartłomiej Bednarek
Humboldt Fellow, Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich
Assistant Professor, University of Warsaw

Euripides’ Bacchae is the only well-preserved, relatively early text that presents, at substantial length, a disturbing but fascinating image of Dionysus, which suggested to several modern-era intellectuals (e.g., Nietzsche, Benedict, Dodds, Otto, Girard, Kott) that inquiry into the true nature of this divinity may shed light on some particularly important aspects of ancient civilization. Due to the state of preservation of the dossier of texts relevant to the study of Dionysus, quite inevitably we tend to extrapolate Euripides’ vision onto the whole of Greco-Roman culture, very often at the cost of downplaying the role of some other, oftentimes less-intriguing texts. This paper analyzes material to discuss the relative importance of Bacchae in different places and times. Before Euripides, Pentheus’ myth was one of the most widely known stories about Dionysus.

This is a free public lecture, sponsored by the Department of Classics. Everyone is welcome.
classics.colorado.edu | 303-492-6257

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Patronage and Clientelism in Archaic & Early Classical Greece: A Hypothesis

Anonymous — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 20:22:54 +0000

Patronage and Clientelism in Archaic & Early Classical Greece: A Hypothesis Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 09/07/2023 - 14:22

Patronage and Clientelism in Archaic & Early Classical Greece: A Hypothesis

Monday, October 16, 5:00 p.m.
Eaton Humanities Building, #125

Speaker: Marek Weçowski, University of Warsaw
Sponsored by �� Boulder's Center for Humanities and the Arts (CHA), the Bruce D. Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization, and the Department of Classics

Free and open to the public

As John K. Davies observed in 2005, ‘the informal networks of influence’ and ‘social control,’ in other words, Greek and especially Athenian ‘patronage’ (broadly conceived), ‘has only recently begun to attract the attention it deserves.’ To this date, ‘interpersonal relations between unequal parties’ and, in particular, political ‘clientelism’ in archaic & classical Greece seems a deeply understudied issue. The locus classicus in this respect is the much-discussed passage of Theopompus (FGrHist 115 F 89), the anecdote referred to also in Plutarch's Life of Cimon (10.1-2; cf. AP 27.3), about Cimon's magnanimity towards his (most probably) fellow-demotai and Athenian citizens at large. In this paper, I will argue that several strangely neglected episodes of the Persian Wars and its aftermath, such as Herodotus 8.17, may serve as a good starting point for reassessing our scattered pieces of historical evidence regarding archaic and classical Greek history - on the basis of sources ranging from Hesiod to Athenaeus.

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Call for Papers: Plague and Pandemic in the Ancient World

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 16:22:24 +0000

Call for Papers: Plague and Pandemic in the Ancient World Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 06/08/2023 - 10:22

Call for Papers
The 2024 University of Colorado Boulder Classics Graduate Colloquium conference:
Plague and Pandemic in the Ancient World
Friday, 19^th – Saturday 20^th January, 2024
Keynote Address by HunterGardner (University of South Carolina)

Through the very trauma they inflict, plagues and pandemics stir conflict and controversy and exercise an enduring intellectual and emotional appeal. The intersecting religious, material, medical, historical, artistic, and literary responses they engendered in antiquity tell a complex story of confrontation with an experience dwarfing individuals and collectives alike. These ancient responses elicit questions for us as modern readers and experiencers of pandemic, and they offer us the opportunity to interact with earlier moments in the evolution of plague discourse. What were the politics of plague at different moments and in different geographical and cultural arenas in antiquity? What opportunities for transgression did plague create, and (how) did societies move to control them? What power dynamics and hierarchies were strengthened or undermined by the intrusion of plague? What did ancient attempts to combat plague, to respond to its intervention, to document it, or to trace its physical, emotional, social, or material consequences look like? Did plague create new taboos or destroy old ones, and what kinds of fear or cultural imperatives did plague engender? How was plague represented in the ancient imaginary? How do our own notions about plague and plague discourse affect our study of these topics in the ancient world?

The University of Colorado Boulder Classics Graduate Colloquium invites papers from current graduate students addressing plague and pandemic as played out across the ancient Mediterranean world and beyond. We welcome papers viewing the topic through the lens of anthropology, art history, archaeology, ethnography, literature, philosophy, and religion, among others. Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words via email to pandemicconference24@gmail.com by August 30, 2023; subject line “Boulder Classics Graduate Colloquium 2024 Submission.” Abstracts should include a title for the paper and be anonymous PDF files. Please include your name, institution, and the title of your abstract in the body of your email. Presentations should be no longer than 20 minutes.

Possible topics are not limited to but may include:

the social consequences of plague and pandemic as experienced in antiquity and beyond
effects of pandemics on ancient belief systems or more broadly the relationship between religion and disease in the ancient world
ancient material responses to disease and its effects, including votives, inscriptions, prosthetics -
ancient artistic or literary responses to plague and pandemic and their later reception
the ways plague since antiquity has prompted reflection on human ingenuity and its hard limits
ancient dietary, surgical, or pharmacological responses to plague
figures in the history of medicine and their intellectual or physical encounters with plague

Please direct any questions to pandemicconference24@gmail.com.

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