ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΙΚΗ ΣΧΟΛΗ
Ritual and Politics, Individual and Community in Plutarch’s Works
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University of Crete
Faculty of Letters Dean
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University of Crete
Department of Philology
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An international Colloquium
27 - 30 April, 2017
Xenia Student Cultural Center
Sofokli Venizelou 16, 74100, Rethymnon
Organized by Lucia Athanassaki and Frances B. Titchener
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Funded by the Research Committee/EΛΠΚ, the Department of Philology,
Dean’s Office - School of Philosophy of the University of Crete, and the International Plutarch Society
Info
Lucia Athanassaki [email protected]
Frances Titchener [email protected]
Plutarch’s Lives and essays (many with a specifically religious focus) are a mine of descriptions of ritual acts, such as sacrifices, processions, theoriae, dedications, ceremonial feasting, public orations, song and/or dance in religious or secular contexts, whether performed by individuals or groups. How do these representations contribute to the characterization of individuals and/or communities? What do they tell us about the way individuals relate to their peers or to their community at large? And/or the ways cities or other forms of community relate to one another? How do rituals interact with politics (personal and communal, local or inter-state)? How do they affect individual and communal identities? These are some of the questions this colloquium will address focusing on Plutarch’s works.
Programme
Thursday 27 April
17.30-18.30 Moderator: Lucia Athanassaki
17.30 Opening comments: Vice-Rector Konstantinos Spanoudakis
17.40-18.30 Michele Lucchesi, ‘Heroization in Plutarch's Parallel Lives’
18.30-20.30 Moderator: Tasos Nikolaidis
18.30-19.20 Michael Paschalis, ‘Plutarch’s manipulation of the proskynesis affair
(Life of Alexander, ch. 54)’
19.20-19.40 Refreshments
19.40-20.30 Giustina Monti, ‘Alexander's ritual performances and publicity stunt: the construction
of a political identity within the Greek and eastern communities’
20. 45 Dinner (Rethymnon, seafront)
Friday 28 April
10.00-11.40 Moderator: Kostas Apostolakis
10.00-10.50 Maria Fragoulaki, 'Comparing portraits: Nicias' wealth in Plutarch and Thucydides'
10.50-11.40 Lucia Athanassaki, ‘Manipulations of Rituals: Intended and Unintended Consequences
in the Lives of Cimon and Nicias’
11.40-12.00 Coffee, Refreshments
12.00-14.00 Moderator: Dimos Spatharas
12.00-12.50 Chris Pelling, ‘Ritual-gone-wrong in Demetrius and Antony; or, “you're not a deity,
you're just a very naughty boy”’
12.50-13.40 Ewen Bowie, ‘Greek élites and the Caesars: cult and cultivation from a
Plutarchan perspective’
13.40 Lunch break
16.30-18.30 Moderator: Athena Kavoulaki
16.30-17.20 Joseph Geiger, ‘Ritual and Monotheism: Plutarch on the Jews’
17.20-18.10 Katerina Oikonomopoulou, ‘Ritual and communal identity in Plutarch's Greek
and Roman Questions’
18.10-18.30 Coffee, Refreshments
18.30-20.30 Moderator: Stelios Panayotakis
18.30-19.20 Paolo Desideri, ‘Roman festivals in Plutarch's Life of Romulus’
19.20-20.10 Judith Mossman, ‘Plutarch and the Roman Triumph’
20.30 Dinner (Rethymnon, Old Town)
Saturday 29 April
9.30-11.10 Moderator: Zacharoula Petraki
9.30-10.20 Aristoula Georgiadou, ‘Rites of passage and the case of Plutarch's Erotikos’
10.20-11.10 Anna Lefteratou, ‘The Cave digression in Plutarch's Crassus’
11.10-11.30 Coffee, refreshments
11.30-13.10 Moderator: Lucia Athanassaki
11.30-12.20 Anastasios Nikolaidis, ‘Divination and Oracles: the Ritual of the Struggle between Reason
and the Irrational’
12.20-13.10 Frances Titchener, ‘Plutarch’s Shadow Women’
13.20 Departure for Eleutherna – Lunch at Eleutherna
15.30 Visit to the Museum and the Archaeological Site
20.30 Dinner (Rethymnon, Old Town)
Sunday 30 April
11.00-13.00 Conclusions – Lucia Athanassaki and Frances B. Titchener
Lucia Athanassaki ([email protected])