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SYMPOSIUM ELEUSINIUM NONUM

 

(With the sponsorship of the Onassis Foundation)

 

 

Club Hotel Loutraki, September 26 - October 3, 2007

 

 

PROGRAMME OF SESSIONS

 

 

Thursday, September 27

9.00 Visit to the Archaeological Museum and Site of Eleusis

(Papaggeli)

 

13.30 Visit to the Archaeological Museum and Site of Ancient Corinth

(Guy Saunders)

 

  1. Dinner

 

Friday, September 28

09.30 11.30 Alberto Bernabé

Orpheus and Eleusis

 

11.30 – 12.00 Coffee Break

 

12.00 14.00 Miguel Herrero

Orphic Eleusis: Clement’s Account on the Mysteries of Dêô (Protr. 2.12-22)

 

14.00 – 15.30 Light Lunch

 

15.30 – 17.30 Neokles Georgopoulos

Sexual Differentiation and its Disorders: True Hermaphroditism and Male and Female Pseudo-Hermaphroditism

 

17.30 – 18.00 Coffee Break

 

18.00 – 20.00 Ioanna Patera

Les kernoi : signes du culte eleusinien?

 

21.00 Dinner

 

Saturday, September 29

09.30 11.30 Apostolos Pierris

Symbola Eleusinia

 

11.30 – 12.00 Coffee Break

12.00 14.00 Lowell Edmunds

Body and Soul in Eleusinian Eschatology: Rereading Some Literary Sources

 

14.00 – 15.30 Light Lunch

 

15.30 – 17.30 David Graf

Dionysus, Demeter, and Lycurgus: The Origins of the Eleusis Cult

 

17.30 – 18.00 Coffee Break

 

18.00 – 20.00 Debate

Bacchica and Orphica at Eleusis

 

21.00 Dinner

 

Sunday, September 30

09.30 11.30 Dirk Obbink

Eleusinian Hymns

 

11.30 – 12.00 Coffee Break

 

 

12.00 14.00 Debate

Poetic Eleusis: Orphic and Non-Orphic Hymns and Epics in the Archaic and Classical Age

 

14.00 – 15.30 Light Lunch

 

15.30 Visit to the Archaeological Site of Isthmia, Acrocorinth and the Heraion in Perachora

 

21.00 Dinner

 

Monday, October 1

09.30 11.30 Robert Wallace

Athenian Popular Piety in the Later Fifth Century: Profanations of the Eleusinian Mysteries

 

11.30 – 12.00 Coffee Break

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12.00 14.00 Renaud Gagné

Mystery Inquisitors: Sacrilege and Authority at Eleusis

 

14.00 – 15.30 Light Lunch

 

15.30 – 17.30 Thomas Figueira

Cult Finances at Eleusis

 

17.30 – 18.00 Coffee Break

 

18.00 – 20.00 Debate

Athens and Eleusis

 

21.00 Dinner

 

 

Tuesday, October 2

09.30 11.30 Serge Mouraviev

Héraclite, prêtre de Dêmêter d’ Éleusis?

11.30 – 12.00 Coffee Break

 

12.00 – 14.00 Matthew Dickie

Philosophical Objections to Initiation

 

14.00 – 15.30 Light Lunch

 

15.30 – 17.30 Concluding Debate

The Eleusinian Mystery: How to Account for the Transcendent Importance and Authority of a Cult.

 

21.00 Dinner