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CALL FOR PAPERS: CLASSICAL RECEPTION AND THE HUMAN – International Conference at the University of Patras, 10-12 June 2016
Jocasta - Classical Reception Greece based at the University of Patras is pleased to announce an International Conference on 10-12 June 2016 which seeks to explore the interrelatedness of Classical Reception and the Human. In the very first line of the choric stasimon from Sophocles’ Antigone we read the susceptible to differentiated translational reception choices phrase «πολλὰ τὰ δεινὰ κοὐδὲν ἀνθρώπου δεινότερον πέλει». With the advent of digital technologies and the recent developments in biomedical and neurological science, the notion…
Find out more »Telediscussion: “Is Greek Tragedy Dead or Alive Today? The Paradigm of Medea.”
Telediscussion: “Is Greek Tragedy Dead or Alive Today? The Paradigm of Medea.” George Steiner in M.S. Silk (ed) Tragedy and the Tragic: Greek Theatre and Beyond, Oxford: Clarendon Press 1996, p. 543 argued that It has long been manifest that tragedy, closely defined, evolves from a context of felt, or challenged, religious beliefs. The mythological matter of the tragic draws on the dynamics of the supernatural. Even a negative theology can in exceptional hands yield a tragic world view e.g.…
Find out more »Jocasta Classical Reception Greece – 1st Annual Postgraduate Symposium in Classical Reception – Call for Papers
Jocasta Classical Reception Greece is pleased to announce the 1st Annual Postgraduate Symposium in Classical Reception, which will take place on Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th of May 2016 at the Department of Philology, University of Patras, Greece. Reception is conceived not as a subdivision of Classics but as a mode of historicised inquiry and constant self-critique intrinsic in Classical Studies. In this respect, the reader assumes the role of the decoder who examines reception of the ancient world from…
Find out more »Jocasta Classical Reception Greece – Workshop on Tragedy and World War II
Jocasta Classical Reception Greece (http://jocasta.upatras.gr/) is pleased to organise an interdisciplinary workshop on Tragedy and World War II which will take place on Tuesday 15 December 2015 at the University of Patras, Greece. On the occasion of the completion of 72 years since the Kalavrytan Holocaust (13 December 1943) and 70 years since the end of WWII, the workshop seeks to explore the interrelatedness between tragedy and events preceding or succeeding World War II, thus being circumscribed in a postclassical…
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