Greeks on Greekness Colloquium Abstract Simon Goldhill, King’s College, Cambridge “Polytheism and Identity in the Late Antique and the Case of Artemis.” This paper is interested in the following questions: How is Artemis represented in the Greek texts of the Roman empire? What implications does this representation have for the history of Greek religion – and, more specifically, how does this late material construct a very different model for the… Read more
Greeks on Greekness Colloquium Abstract Ineke Sluiter, Universiteit Leiden “Truth or Construction? Working with the Past in the Second Sophistic” The special significance attached to the past in the Second Sophistic makes it highly desirable for “the past” to possess a certain stability: it should be possible to get to “the truth”, and in fact, truth-claims abound in discourse about the past. Yet, at the same time, second-sophistic intellectuals realize… Read more
Greeks on Greekness Colloquium Abstract Suzanne Saïd, Columbia University “The Rewriting of the Athenian Past: From Isocrates to Aelius Aristides” This paper examines the refashioning of the Athenian past in the Panathenaicus of Aristides. At first glance the Panathenaicus looks like a mere rehash of Isocrates’ Panegyricus. Like the Panegyricus, it is a demonstration of Athens’ many virtues by means of a catalogue of her benefactions both in mythical and… Read more
Tom Walsh back to Homerizon Conference main page Homer’s “Fragments” It will soon be 80 years since Milman Parry demonstrated, startlingly, that oral and traditional style has deep consequences for those who seek to understand Homeric poetry and narrative. These consequences, nonetheless, have not lead to a settled view of the fundamental matters of Homeric discourse. The Parryan paradigm shift, in fact, has not yielded,… Read more
Cashman Kerr Prince back to Homerizon Conference main page Poeta sovrano?: Horizons of Homer in Twentieth-Century English-Language Poetry My title begins with a citation from Dante, quoted in the call for papers for this Homerizon conference, then the balance of my title moves away from the Italian Trecento and towards a radically different time-period, one as unimaginable to Dante as to the ancients. Comments on Dante’s understanding of Homer… Read more
Leonard Muellner back to Homerizon Conference main page Discovery Procedures and Principles for Homeric Philological Research The past 100 years have brought new perspectives and new methods to the study of Homeric poetry, several of which affect our understanding of the poems in the most basic ways. For the philologist working on the meaning of individual words, at least two are especially important: the enhanced understanding we have acquired… Read more
Richard Martin back to Homerizon Conference main page Cretan Homers: Tradition, Politics, Fieldwork The notion of horizon requires us to think of perspective, and that, in turn, means we must consider the place from which one looks. In this paper, I gaze at the distant prospect of Homer — whether that phenomenon “Homer” be a line or an object, a particle or a wave — from one place:… Read more
Johannes Haubold back to Homerizon Conference main page Homer between East and West There has been a growing trend in Homeric studies to investigate the connections between Homeric epic and the so-called ‘Ancient Near East’. In this paper I reflect on the nature of this trend, as well as proposing a new approach to some of the issues it raises. My argument is in three parts. In a… Read more
Constanze Güthenke back to Homerizon Conference main page The Philhellenic Horizon: Homeric Prolegomena to the Greek War of Independence Based on what Richard Armstrong and Casey Dué, in the invitation to this conference, termed the Wolfian paradigm of Homeric research and its intersection with the preoccupations of the Romantic period (ballads; nature; language; nation; nostalgia; modernity), this paper examines the role of Homer within the horizon… Read more
Barbara Graziosi back to Homerizon Conference main page Homer and the Definition of Epic Epic, as a genre, is defined using many different criteria, from mode of discourse (although some epics are not predominantly narrative), length (though some epics are short), relationship to other genres (though not all epics incorporate minor genres), subject matter (though not all epics involve war or travel), theological framework (though not all… Read more
