(Sent on behalf of Athanassios Vergados)
We are pleased to announce the programme of our upcoming conference on ‘Reflections on Language in Early Greece’ that will take place on-line via Zoom on 1st-3rd September 2021. To obtain the zoom details, please register at https://newcastleuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZArdO-uqzwsEtCNY8qTfKAbs9cvCEPsZr17.
Please note that all times are GMT+1 (UK time).
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1st September |
2nd September |
3rd September |
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13:00-13:45 |
Jenny Strauss Clay (Virginia) & Shaul Tor (KCL) Worrying about human language: from Homer to Parmenides |
Athanassios Vergados (Newcastle) Etymological Reflections in the Sophists |
Isabella Reinhardt (Vanderbilt) Verbal Aporia and reality in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon |
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13:50-14:35 |
Ivana Petrovic (Virginia) Etymologising of divine names: Homeric Hymns to Apollo (3) and Artemis (29) |
Luuk Huitink (Amsterdam) Protagoras and the Origins of Formal Grammar |
Elsa Bouchard (Montréal) Names and mythopoiesis in Aeschylus’ Eumenides |
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14:40-15:25 |
Xavier Gheerbrant (Sichuan) Beyond “style”: reflections on the language of prose in Pherecydes of Syros |
Rose Cherubin (George Mason) TBD |
Nikolay Grintser (Moscow) Language and etymology in the Oresteia |
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15:30-15:55 |
Break |
Break |
Break |
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16:00-16:45 |
Leon Wash (Chicago) Empedocles on the language of nature |
Luke Parker (Puget Sound) Heraclitus, Gorgias, and the ontology of language |
Lyndsay Coo (Bristol) Failures of language in Sophocles’ Philoctetes |
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16:50-17:35 |
Valeria Piano (Florence) Naming the world through ainigmata: Orpheus and the suitability of names in the Derveni Papyrus |
Timothy Barnes (Cambridge) “Proto-grammatical” reflection in early Greek and Sanskrit poetry |
Alexandre Johnston (Oxford) Ephemerality and Distorted Language in Sophoclean Tragedy |
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17:40-18:25 |
Adrien Zirah (EHESS-ANHIMA, Paris) Translation and correctness of names in the works of Aeschylus, Herodotus and Plato |
General Discussion |
For any questions, please contact the conference organisers Shaul Tor (shaul.tor@kcl.ac.uk) and Athanassios Vergados (athanassios.vergados@ncl.ac.uk).
