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