Document 6606177

Gaze, Vision and Visuality
in ancient Greek Literature:
Concepts, Contexts and Reception.
Venue:
Haus zur Lieben Hand (Großer Saal)
Löwenstraße 16
79098 Freiburg
Date:
4 – 6 December 2014
Beginning: Thursday, 4 December 2014, 8:00 a.m.
O R G A N I Z AT I O N :
GERMANY ( BADEN -WUERT TEMBERG) :
Stylianos Chronopoulos | Freiburg
Felix Maier | Freiburg
Claudia Michel | Freiburg
Anna Novokhatko | Freiburg
Christian Orth | Freiburg
GREECE :
Emmanuela Bakola | London
Alexandros Kampakoglou | Oxford
Anna Lamari | Thessaloniki
Nikos Miltsios | Thessaloniki
Helen-Melina Tamiolaki | Kreta
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Gaze, Vision and Visuality
in ancient Greek Literature:
Concepts, Contexts and Reception.
REGISTRATION:
stylianos.chronopoulos @ altphil.uni-freiburg.de
Academy Conference, Freiburg
4 – 6 December 2014
Cover picture:
“Oculus historiae, oculus memoriae, oculus oblivionis” (detail),
A. and P. Poirier, München, photo: digital cat.
HEIDELBERGER AKADEMIE
DER WISSENSCHAFTEN
Akademie der Wissenschaften
des Landes Baden-Württemberg
isuality was a key feature of ancient Greek culture.
Performance and spectacle lay at the heart of all
aspects of everyday life, such as courts and assemblies, cult and ritual, arts and culture. Literary genres
often host acts of viewing or describe other visual
experiences, engaging continually with sight-related
language, while also exploring multiple interconnections between viewing, understanding and knowing.
The recipients of ancient Greek literature (both oral
and written) are thus encouraged to perceive the
narrated scenes as spectacles and to ‘follow the gaze’
of the characters in the narrative. Seeing and visuality were also debated topics. Whilst being considered
as the most secure means into knowledge (note the
historians’ insistence on opsis and autopsia), seeing was
often associated with mere appearance, false perception
and deceptiveness (see, for instance, the ideas of Plato,
but also, a contrario, the connection between oracular
knowledge and darkness or blindness).
This conference aims at exploring the various forms
of gaze, vision, and visuality in ancient Greek literature.
By setting a broad time span, we seek to track down
the evolution of the gaze culture in Greek literature,
while also addressing broader topics, such as theories
of vision, the prominence of visuality in specific time
periods, or the position of visuality in a hierarchization
of senses.
Academy Conference, Freiburg
4 – 6 December 2014
Haus zur Lieben Hand (Großer Saal)
Löwenstraße 16
79098 Freiburg
PROGR AM
THURSDAY, 4 DECEMBER 2014
8:00
9:00
A R R I VA L A N D R EGIST R AT ION
11:00
COF F E E BR E A K
11:30
N I KO L AUS DI E T RI C H
Viewing and Identification:
The Agency of the Viewer in Archaic and
Early Classical Greek Visual Culture
12:15
LU NCH BR E A K
14:00
A N N A N OVO K H AT KO
The Semantics of Vision and Visuality
in Sicilian and Old Attic Comedy
15:30
COF F E E BR E A K
15:45
D E BO R A H TA R N S T E I N E R
Visible Writings: Visuality, Performativity
and Enargeia in Early Inscriptions, Images
and Texts
CHRISTIAN ORTH
Deixis in the Prologues of Greek Comedy
17:15
17:30
N I KOS M I LT S I OS
SATURDAY, 6 DECEMBER 2014
9:45
The Directions of Gaze in Herodotus
9:45
ROS I E H A RM A N
10:30
COF F E E BR E A K
10:30
COF F E E BR E A K
10:45
FE L I X M A I E R
10:45
H E L E N - M E LI N A TA M I O L A K I
Directing the Gaze in Procopius
11:30
A L E X I A PE T SA LI S - DI O M I DI S
Gazing at Votives in Texts and on the Ground:
Dedicatory Epigrams and Material Offerings
11:30
LU NCH BR E A K
14:00
FR A N ÇO IS E LÉ TO U B LO N
War as Spectacle in the Iliad
12:15
LU NCH BR E A K
14:00
E M M A N U E L A BA KO L A
Seeing the Invisible: Visuality, Interiority,
and Theatrical Space in the Oresteia
D O U G L AS CA I R N S
Phrikê, Theatricality, and the Visual
14:45
15:30
FR EE TIME
18:00
H E L E N LOVAT T
Apollonius Rhodius and the Epic Gaze
(plenary talk)
20:00
15:30
COF F E E BR E A K
15:45
A L E X A N D ROS K A M PA KO G LO U
The Poetics of Gaze in Apollonius Rhodius
16:30
E FS TAT H I A AT H A N ASO P O U LO U
The Construction of Vision:
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave in Film
SIMON BÜCHNER
Gaze, Desire and Destruction in the Odyssey
A N N A L A M A RI
Exploring Visual Intertextuality
in Greek Drama
CON F E R E NCE DI N N E R
COF F E E BR E A K
J O N AS G R E T H L E I N
C L AU D I A M I C H E L
Blindness and Blinding in the Odyssey
12:15
14:45
Being or Appearing Virtuous?
The Challenges of Leadership in
Xenophon’s Cyropaedia
Gaze in the Information Processing Paradigm
18:15
S T Y LI A N OS C H RO N O P O U LOS
The Fearsome Gaze of Thrasymachus
(Pl. Resp. 336b–e):
Eye Communication and Philosophical
Dialogue
The Visual in Greek Historiography
RU BY B LO N D E L L
Devastating Beauty: Visualizing Helen
in Euripides’ Trojan Women
16:30
9:00
I A N RU T H E R FO R D
The Vocabulary of Gaze and Vision
(workshop session)
14:45
FRIDAY, 5 DECEMBER 2014
Amphora painting of Odysseus and his men blinding
Polyphemus (detail), Museum of Eleusis.
17:15
COF F E E BR E A K
17:30
CLOSI NG DISC US SION