The aim of the conference is to bring together an international panel of experts on several fields of the Graeco-Roman world, including literature, religion, medicine and philosophy, and to foster interdisciplinary dialogue between the participants around the conference’s central theme. Taking the cue from the great fascination that journey holds in narrative texts from Homer onwards and from the fact that the metaphorical domain of journey to represent knowledge runs over the history of Greco-Roman literature, we invited papers exploring the interaction between knowledge and journey in Greek and Latin texts from early to late antiquity. Speakers will hold a thirty-minutes talk followed by a fifteen-minutes discussion.
For any question please contact: paths_of_knowledge@topoi.org
1.12.2016 | |
08:45 - 09:15 | Welcome and Registration |
09:15 - 09:45 | Introduction |
09:45 - 10:30 | Homer’s Odyssey: cosmic journeys and spiritual awakenings Safari Grey |
10:30 - 11:15 | With and without you: The νόστοι of Helen and Menelaos as paths to μῆτις Elizabeth Stockdale |
11:15 - 11:45 | Coffee Break |
11:45 - 12:30 | Orion\\'s wanderings in Corinna PMG 654 col.iii 37-41 Lucia Prauscello |
12:30 - 13:15 | The journey as means of structuring poetic knowledge Martin Hose |
13:15 - 14:30 | Lunch (private) |
14:30 - 15:15 | Following Zeus' path: pain, knowledge and sophrosyne in the Hymn to Zeus (Ag. 160-83) (Panel I) Michael Carroll |
14:30 - 15:15 | “A path for understanding”: journey-metaphors in pre-Socratic theories of knowledge (Panel II) Chiara Ferella |
15:15 - 16:00 | The Paths of the Soul in Pseudo-Hippocratic De Victu (Panel II) Elisaveta Sherbakova |
15:15 - 16:00 | Philosophical Housewives in Theocritus (Panel I) Matthew Chaldekas |
16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
16:30 - 17:15 | The Size and the Path of the Sun: Heraclitus in col. IV of the Derveni Papyrus (Panel II) Gábor Betegh |
16:30 - 17:15 | Ps.-Oppian’s didactic paths in the Cynegetica (Panel I) Athanassios Vergados |
17:30 - 18:15 | Wandering Poets Revisited Bruno Currie |
2.12.2016 | |
08:45 - 09:15 | Welcome and Registration |
09:15 - 10:00 | An invitation from Plato: a philosophical journey to Knowledge (Panel I) Mai Oki-Suga |
09:15 - 10:00 | Finding Identities on the Way to Rome (Panel II) Sara Fascione |
10:00 - 10:45 | The image in the Image: the soul’s journey to Knowledge in Plato’s cave (Panel I) Claas Lattmann |
10:00 - 10:45 | Pausanias’ Messenian Itinerary and the Journeys of the Past (Panel II) Greta Hawes |
10:45 - 11:15 | Coffee break |
11:15 - 12:00 | The Teacher’s journeys: Epicurean and Lucretian Paths of Knowledge in De Rerum Natura (Panel I) Eva M. Noller |
11:15 - 12:00 | Wasted Journeys: Themistius’ critique of Student Travel (Panel II) Jan Stenger |
12:15 - 13:00 | Knowledge as Ascent in Plotinus Peter Struck |
13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch at Topoi House |
14:00 - 14:45 | Philo on Abraham’s journey of Self-discovery Albrecht Joosse |
14:45 - 15:30 | Incomprehension en route to Jerusalem. Mark 8:22-10:52 Cilliers Breytenbach |
15:30 - 16:00 | coffee break |
16:00 - 16:45 | The wanderer, the philosopher and the exegete: receptions of the Odyssey in twelfth-century Byzantium Valeria Flavia Lovato |
16:45 - 17:30 | Concluding Remarks Camilla Di Biase-Dyson |