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SYMPOSIUM LESBIUM

 

Poetry, Wisdom and Politics in Archaic Lesbos:
Alcaeus, Sappho, Pittacus

 

7-14 August 2005
Molyvos, Lesbos

 

PROGRAMME OF SESSIONS

 

 
Monday, August 8th 
         09.30 11.30   Ewen Bowie
                                  Alcaeus
130b and 307
 
         11.30 – 12.00   Coffee Break
 
         12.00 14.00   Lowell Edmunds 
                                  Deictic Elements in
Alcaeus Frs. 129V and 130bV
 
         14.00 – 15.00   Light Lunch
 
         20.30                Dinner
 
Tuesday, August 9th
         09.30 11.30   Dirk Obbink
                                  Sappho
and the Fragment
 
         11.30 – 12.00   Coffee Break
         
         12.00 14.00   Deborah Boedeker
                                  Sappho Old and New
 
         14.00 – 15.00   Light Lunch
 
         20.30                Dinner
 
Wednesday, August 10th 
         09.30 11.30   Richard Janko
                                  Tithonus
and Eos in the New Sappho.
 
         11.30 – 12.00   Coffee Break
 
         12.00 14.00   Ettore Cingano
                                  A Melting Pot of Genres: Epic, Lyric and
Mythography in Early Lesbos.
 
         14.00 – 15.00   Light Lunch. 
 
         15.00 17.00   Richard Seaford
                                  Lesbian Poetry, Monetisation and Dionysos:
From the Lyric to the Tragic Age. 
 
         20.30                Dinner
 
 
Thursday, August 11th 
         09.00 11.30   Apostolos Pierris
                                  On the Twofold Source of Early Philosophical
Speculation: The Case of Archaic Lesbos.
 
         11.30 – 12.00   Coffee Break.
         12.00 14.00   Kurt Raaflaub 
                                  Charaxos of Mytilene, Rhodopis the Courtesan
and Greek-Egyptian Interaction in the Archaic Age..
 
         14.00 – 15.00   Light Lunch.
 
         15.30 17.30   Gauthier Liberman
                                  The Lesbian Aristocratic Businessman and the
Thracian Courtesan.
 
         17.30 – 18.00   Coffee Break
 
         18.00 20.00   Hakan Tell 
                                  Itinerant Sages in the Greek World
         
         20.30                Dinner
 
Friday, August 12th 
         09.30 11.30   Richard Martin
                                  Pittakos: Tyrant, Sage
                                        
         11.30 – 12.00   Coffee Break
 
         12.00 14.00   Robert Wallace
                                  Pittacos, aisymmetes and sophos.
         
         14.00 – 15.00   Light Lunch
 
         15.30 – 17.30   David Tandy
                                  The Political
Economy of Mytilene 612/09 – 580/79
 
         17.30 – 18.00   Coffee Break
         
         18.00 20.00   Athena Demopoulou
                                  Forms of Government and Legislation in
Lesbos at the Time of Pittacus.
Saturday, August 13th 
         09.30 11.30   Ahuvia Kahane
                                  Democratic Fragments and the Politics of
Pink: Sappho, Alcaeus, Pittacus.
 
         11.30 – 12.00   Coffee
Break
 
         12.00 – 14.30   Concluding Discussion
 
         14.30                Light
Lunch
 
         20.30                Dinner