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Crete/Patras Ancient Emotions IV
An International Digital Workshop on Rethinking Ancient Emotions

November 23-24, 2021

[If you wish to attend, please contact jointly George Kazantzidis
(gkazantzidis@upatras.gr) and Dimos Spatharas (spatharasd@gmail.com)
between 16 and 22 November
2021]

Programme

Tuesday, November 23
Session I. Rethinking the History of Ancient Emotions
16.00* (Athens time)
Douglas Cairns
“Why is there a history of emotions?”
16.45
David Konstan
“Between appraisal theory and basic emotions: How to do the history of
emotion.”
17.30
Chiara Thumiger
“Gates, towers and trenches: history of emotions and the definition of
‘human’”.
18.15-18.30 Break

Session II. Emotion Concepts and the Language of Emotions
18.30
Christopher Gill
“Stoic typologies of emotions: Universalism and ethical standpoint.”
19.15
Catherine Edwards
“Fire and flood: image and emotion in Roman Stoic thought.”
20.00-20.15 Break
20.15
Peter Singer
“Exotic and familiar, medicine and philosophy, emotions and
non-emotions.”

Wednesday, November 24
Session III. The Body’s Reappropriation in the History of Emotion
Studies
16.00
Pia Campeggiani
“Breaching the mind-body divide: 4E cognition and emotion history.”
16.45
Donald Lateiner
“Emotion: Embarrassment (undertheorized and studied in Classics)”
17.30-17.45 Break

Session IV. Ancient Emotions and Modern concerns
17.45
Damien Nelis
“Anger in Vergil’s Aeneid: emotions, ethics, and metapoetics.”
18.30
Dimos Spatharas
“Emotions and the law: modern approaches to a vexatious issue.”
19.15
George Kazantzidis
“Pandemic literature and ecohorror: looking at the past through modern
emotions.”
19.15-19.30 Break
Session V. Narrative Fictions and Emotions
19.30
Angelos Chaniotis (IAS, Princeton)
“Emotions and fictions.”
20.15-20.30
Closing remarks-Roundtable discussion