Panel 2: Language of the Body

Invited Speakers


Anthony Corbeill (University of Kansas, USA): Androgynous gods and androgynous nouns in archaic Rome

Véronique Dasen (Université de Fribourg): Autour de Mélampous : le langage divinatoire du corps

Johanna Fabricius (Freie Universität Berlin): Der römische Körper zwischen Performanz und Desintegration

Accepted Speakers


Zoa Alonso (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España)
Dance's language at the Roman religious events

Athéna Bazou (Académie d'Athčnes, Grčce)
Image du corps, image de l'âme. La causalité dans la physiognomonie grecque

Rodolfo P. Buzón (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Das Altern in der griechischen Dichtung: von Homer zum Hellenismus

Marcela A. E. Cubillos Poblete (Universidad de La Serena, Chile)
When the body testifies a change of mentality. The look of Juvenal, Persius and Martial, a window on the High Roman Empire

Martin Dinter (King's College London, United Kingdom)
Lucan Dismembered - Corporeality in the Bellum Civile

Claudia N. Fernández (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)
Body-text in Herondas' mimes

Licia Ferro / Maria Monteleone (Universitŕ di Siena, Italia)
Agere als Wörter körperlich darstellen

Andreas Fountoulakis (University of Crete, Greece)
The Poetics of the Body: Constructing Desire in the Twelfth Book of the Greek Anthology

Marília P. Futre Pinheiro (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Fashioning the Other: Masculine/Feminine in the Ancient Greek Novel

Konstantina Gakopoulou (Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Die Rolle des Chores in der Palastwunderszene der euripideischen Bakchen

Isabel Moreno Ferrero (Universidas de Salamanca, España)
Hieratismo y expresividad en la caracterización de lo líderes livianos: Risa y llanto en el AVC

María Florencia Nelli (Worcester College, Oxford, United Kingdom)
Looking at the pain: Spatial Deixis and Body Language in Sophocles' Trachiniae and Philoctetes

Stelios Panayotakis (University of Crete, Greece)
Constructing the Female Body in The Story of Apollonius, King of Tyre

Nevena Panova (Sofia University, Bulgaria)
Language of the Body in Three Dialogues of Plato on Love and Friendship

Sara Saba (Kommission für alte Geschichte und Epigraphik, München, Deutschland)
Historical Truth and Official Language: isopoliteia between Nagidos and Arsinoe

Germán Santana Henríquez (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, España)
La terminología médica sobre los dolores de cabeza en Galeno

Anastasia Serghidou (Université de Crčte, Grèce)
Corps serviles et marques de dégradation en Grčce classique

Tamar Sukhishvili (Ilia Chavchavadze State University Tbilisi, Georgia)
Language of Hand in Homeric Epic

Elzbieta Wesolowska (University of Poznan, Poland)
Arcete tactu, famuli, et accessu procul… Body distance in Seneca tragedies (on particular examples of "Medea" and "Phaedra")

Robert Zaborowski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland)
Somatizations in Homer Epics