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