Gaze, Vision and Visuality in ancient Greek Literature: Concepts, Contexts and Reception. Venue: Haus zur Lieben Hand (Großer Saal) Löwenstraße 16 79098 Freiburg Date: 4 – 6 December 2014 Beginning: Thursday, 4 December 2014, 8:00 a.m. O R G A N I Z AT I O N : GERMANY ( BADEN -WUERT TEMBERG) : Stylianos Chronopoulos | Freiburg Felix Maier | Freiburg Claudia Michel | Freiburg Anna Novokhatko | Freiburg Christian Orth | Freiburg GREECE : Emmanuela Bakola | London Alexandros Kampakoglou | Oxford Anna Lamari | Thessaloniki Nikos Miltsios | Thessaloniki Helen-Melina Tamiolaki | Kreta HEIDELBERGER AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN Karlstr. 4 69117 Heidelberg Telefon 0 62 21 | 54 32 65 | -66 Telefax 0 62 21 | 54 33 55 [email protected] www.hadw-bw.de Gaze, Vision and Visuality in ancient Greek Literature: Concepts, Contexts and Reception. REGISTRATION: stylianos.chronopoulos @ altphil.uni-freiburg.de Academy Conference, Freiburg 4 – 6 December 2014 Cover picture: “Oculus historiae, oculus memoriae, oculus oblivionis” (detail), A. and P. Poirier, München, photo: digital cat. HEIDELBERGER AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN Akademie der Wissenschaften des Landes Baden-Württemberg isuality was a key feature of ancient Greek culture. Performance and spectacle lay at the heart of all aspects of everyday life, such as courts and assemblies, cult and ritual, arts and culture. Literary genres often host acts of viewing or describe other visual experiences, engaging continually with sight-related language, while also exploring multiple interconnections between viewing, understanding and knowing. The recipients of ancient Greek literature (both oral and written) are thus encouraged to perceive the narrated scenes as spectacles and to ‘follow the gaze’ of the characters in the narrative. Seeing and visuality were also debated topics. Whilst being considered as the most secure means into knowledge (note the historians’ insistence on opsis and autopsia), seeing was often associated with mere appearance, false perception and deceptiveness (see, for instance, the ideas of Plato, but also, a contrario, the connection between oracular knowledge and darkness or blindness). This conference aims at exploring the various forms of gaze, vision, and visuality in ancient Greek literature. By setting a broad time span, we seek to track down the evolution of the gaze culture in Greek literature, while also addressing broader topics, such as theories of vision, the prominence of visuality in specific time periods, or the position of visuality in a hierarchization of senses. Academy Conference, Freiburg 4 – 6 December 2014 Haus zur Lieben Hand (Großer Saal) Löwenstraße 16 79098 Freiburg PROGR AM THURSDAY, 4 DECEMBER 2014 8:00 9:00 A R R I VA L A N D R EGIST R AT ION 11:00 COF F E E BR E A K 11:30 N I KO L AUS DI E T RI C H Viewing and Identification: The Agency of the Viewer in Archaic and Early Classical Greek Visual Culture 12:15 LU NCH BR E A K 14:00 A N N A N OVO K H AT KO The Semantics of Vision and Visuality in Sicilian and Old Attic Comedy 15:30 COF F E E BR E A K 15:45 D E BO R A H TA R N S T E I N E R Visible Writings: Visuality, Performativity and Enargeia in Early Inscriptions, Images and Texts CHRISTIAN ORTH Deixis in the Prologues of Greek Comedy 17:15 17:30 N I KOS M I LT S I OS SATURDAY, 6 DECEMBER 2014 9:45 The Directions of Gaze in Herodotus 9:45 ROS I E H A RM A N 10:30 COF F E E BR E A K 10:30 COF F E E BR E A K 10:45 FE L I X M A I E R 10:45 H E L E N - M E LI N A TA M I O L A K I Directing the Gaze in Procopius 11:30 A L E X I A PE T SA LI S - DI O M I DI S Gazing at Votives in Texts and on the Ground: Dedicatory Epigrams and Material Offerings 11:30 LU NCH BR E A K 14:00 FR A N ÇO IS E LÉ TO U B LO N War as Spectacle in the Iliad 12:15 LU NCH BR E A K 14:00 E M M A N U E L A BA KO L A Seeing the Invisible: Visuality, Interiority, and Theatrical Space in the Oresteia D O U G L AS CA I R N S Phrikê, Theatricality, and the Visual 14:45 15:30 FR EE TIME 18:00 H E L E N LOVAT T Apollonius Rhodius and the Epic Gaze (plenary talk) 20:00 15:30 COF F E E BR E A K 15:45 A L E X A N D ROS K A M PA KO G LO U The Poetics of Gaze in Apollonius Rhodius 16:30 E FS TAT H I A AT H A N ASO P O U LO U The Construction of Vision: Plato’s Allegory of the Cave in Film SIMON BÜCHNER Gaze, Desire and Destruction in the Odyssey A N N A L A M A RI Exploring Visual Intertextuality in Greek Drama CON F E R E NCE DI N N E R COF F E E BR E A K J O N AS G R E T H L E I N C L AU D I A M I C H E L Blindness and Blinding in the Odyssey 12:15 14:45 Being or Appearing Virtuous? The Challenges of Leadership in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia Gaze in the Information Processing Paradigm 18:15 S T Y LI A N OS C H RO N O P O U LOS The Fearsome Gaze of Thrasymachus (Pl. Resp. 336b–e): Eye Communication and Philosophical Dialogue The Visual in Greek Historiography RU BY B LO N D E L L Devastating Beauty: Visualizing Helen in Euripides’ Trojan Women 16:30 9:00 I A N RU T H E R FO R D The Vocabulary of Gaze and Vision (workshop session) 14:45 FRIDAY, 5 DECEMBER 2014 Amphora painting of Odysseus and his men blinding Polyphemus (detail), Museum of Eleusis. 17:15 COF F E E BR E A K 17:30 CLOSI NG DISC US SION
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