Apr 16, 2024
International Workshop: Emotions and Perception in the Greco-Roman World (2-3 May 2024)
Program overview
- 2–3 May 2024
- W48/016
- PDF with detailed conference programme
Thursday, May 2, 2024
0 | Opening Remarks (1 pm)
1 | Theoretical Approaches (1.30–3 p.m.)
| Alessandro Giardini (Pisa) | Theophrastus on Perception: The Case for Mixed Feelings |
| Lorenzo Benigno (Bologna) | Plato's View of Valence, Arousal, and their Relation |
2 | Pleasure (3.30–5.45 p.m.)
| Anna Novokhatko (Thessaloniki) | "The pleasure of the comic"? Compassion and detachment in Attic comedy |
| Michele Solitario (Tübingen) | Perceiving the Homeland: Contrasting Emotions in Aeschylus’ Libation Bearers |
| Matthias Grawehr (Mainz) | Personal Objects, Their Potential Emotional Values, and the Senses in Roman Antiquity |
Friday, May 3, 2024
'3 | Forensic Oratory (9–10.30 a.m.)
| Patrick Kunzendorf (Bonn) | Mental Simulation in Roman Forensic Oratory - or: "How to make the judges wish you were right" |
| Riccarda Schmid (Fribourg) | Emotions as Deliberation in Athenian Law Courts |
4 | Trangressions (11–12.30 a.m.)
| Anna Athanasopoulou (Cambridge) | Embodied ecologies in Nonnus' Dionysiaca |
| Leon Schmieder (Zurich) | Emotion, memory, and violence: The underworld's amentes amantes in Ausonius' Cupido cruciatus |
5 | Divine Emotions (1.30–3 p.m.)
| Theodore Hill (Edinburgh) | Perceiving Divine Anger and Resentment in Archaic and Classical Greece |
| Gabriela Cursaru & Pierre Bonnechere (Montréal) | Whirl, perception and emotions in the Symposion |
6 | Affective Perceptions (3.30–5.45 p.m.)
| Attila Simon (Budapest) | Emotional dynamics and perception. The meeting of Achilles and Priam in Iliad 24 |
| Hana Aghababian (Cornell) | Homeric γλαυκός: A Case Study on Greek "Color" as "Emotional Movement" |
| Sinem Kılıç (FU Berlin) | All Ears: On the Relation between Emotions and the Sense of Hearing in Plato's Philosophy |