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
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