Panel 6: Turning Points in the Reception of Classical Antiquity


Sponsored by: Sonderforschungsbereich 644 "Transformationen der Antike"

Invited Speakers


Marianne Pade (University of Aarhus, Denmark): The Latin Dion: Guarino Veronese's translation of the Plutarchan life (1414)

Mathilde Skoie (University of Oslo, Norway): Reading commentaries as reception: Reception theory as a challenge to the history of scholarship

Accepted Speakers


Vincenzo Aiello (Università di Messina, Italia)
Costantino eversor Romae. La polemica sul Constitutum Constantini prima di Valla

Emanoil Ancuta (Institut für Internationale Studien, Bukarest, Rumänien)
Die Ausstrahlungswirkung der deutschen Altertumsforschung auf Osteuropa

Ljiljana Bakić (Municipal Museum of Vršac, Serbia)
Felix Milleker's Contributions to the Study of the Antiquities of Banat between the 1880's and 1940's

Anna Banfi (Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italia)
The Violence Comes on Stage: Antigone by Jean Anouilh (France) and Antigone in ’71 by TECON (South Africa)

Lutz Bergemann (SFB 644 / Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Deutschland)
Das mittelalterliche Epos "Eupolemius" – invertierte antike Heldenepik?

Simone Beta (Università degli Studi di Siena, Italia)
The rebirth of Greek comedy. The first complete Latin translation of Aristophanes' plays

Lorella Bosco (Università degli Studi di Bari, Italia)
Zwischen Versteinerung und lebendem Bild: die Marmorbilder und die Aporien der Antikerezeption

Svetozar Boškov (University of Novi Sad, Serbia)
The Turning Points in the Studies of Ancient History amongst Serbs during the 19th century

Menelaos Christopoulos (University of Patras, Greece)
Homer and the Homeric Epigrams. Historicity, Reception, Narrative

Beate Czapla (Universität Bonn, Deutschland)
Ancient and Modern Readings of Catullus

Kristoffel Demoen (Universiteit Gent, Belgium)
The momentous Anthologia Palatina and its momentary impact. The classical and Byzantine epigram from Ioannes Geometres (X) to Christophoros Mitylenaios (XI)

Sandra Ducic Collette (University of Durham, United Kingdom)
Turning point in the reception of Plato's Symposium: Hölderlin's Diotima in Hyperion

Nikolai Endres (Western Kentucky University, USA)
Platonic Seduction: The Phaedrus and Tod in Venedig

Rainer Friedrich (Dalhousie University, Canada)
A Third Sophistic? The Tradition of the Physis-Sophists in the Thought of de Sade and Nietzsche

Leofranc Holford-Strevens (Oxford University Press, United Kingdom)
Between the Confessional and the Glass Bead Game: Some Thoughts on Love Poets as Lovers

Eleftheria Ioannidou (European Network of Research & Documentation of Performances of Ancient Greek Drama, University of Athens, Greece)
From Ritual Sparagmos to Deconstruction: Classical Fragments in Modern Adaptations of Greek Tragedy

Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España)
Where there bloody rites of passage in Orphism?

Montserrat Jiménez San Cristóbal (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España)
Transmisión y traducciones de textos clásicos griegos: Leonardo Bruni en la Castilla del siglo XV

Wolfram R. Keller (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Deutschland)
Ovidian Abandonment and Poetic Tradition: The Case of the Victorian Novel

Michael Lambert (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
South Africa and the Classics: Athens, Sparta and Rome on the Veld

Óscar Lapeña Marchena (Universidad de Cádiz, España)
Nuevas perspectivas en la recepción cinematográfica de la Historia Antigua: el ejemplo de "Dacii" (S. Nicolaescu, Rumanía 1967)

Frederick Lauritzen (Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose, Bologna, Italia)
The Byzantine reception of Plutarch: the case of Psellos (1018-1081)

Mª del Pilar Lojendio Quintero / Mª del Pino Montesdeoca Cubas (Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, España)
Desmitificando los mitos: la visión particular de Carol Ann Duffy en The World's wife

Juan Antonio López Férez (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, España)
Mitos y nombres míticos clásicos en Persiles y Sigismunda de Cervantes

Elia Marinova (Sofia University, Bulgaria)
Hesiod's "Works and Days" in the German Didactic Tradition of the 16th Century

John F. Miller (University of Virginia, USA)
The Reception of Ovid's Fasti in the Renaissance

Nina Mindt (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Ovidius exul bei Theodulf von Orléans und Modoin von Autun

Maria Stefania Montecalvo (Università di Foggia, Italia)
La Grčce des anciens comparée ŕ la Grčce des modernes : le projet de Jean-Baptiste Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison au retour du voyage au Levant

María Jesús Pérez Ibáñez (Universidad de Valladolid, España)
Las traducciones humanistas de los epigramas de la Antología Planudea; el ejempio de las ediciones de Soter (1521) y Cornarius (1529)

Karla Pollmann (St Andrews University, United Kingdom)
The Fragmentation of Authority: The Receptions of Augustine and Virgil in Comparison

Nebojša Radenković (Serbian Society for Ancient Studies, Prokuplje, Serbia)
Ancient Balkans in the european and world science between two world wars: Activity of Belgrade's Balkaninstitut

Raffaele Ruggiero (Università di Bari, Italia)
Ancient Law and Philology as Historical Science in Giambattista Vico (1688-1744)

María Inés Saravia de Grossi (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)
Antigone of Sophocles in surrealistic clue

Arbogast Schmitt (Universität Marburg, Deutschland)
Renaissance: Rediscovery of Antiquity or Turning Point in the Reception of Antiquity?

Elke Steinmeyer (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
The reception of the Electra myth in Yael Farber's "Molora"

Jelle Stoop (Yale University, USA)
Heaney "colloguing" Vergil

Werner Suerbaum (Universität München, Deutschland)
Die beiden ersten Formen einer Eindeutschung von Vergils Aeneis
(Das Manuskript wird verlesen durch Prof. Dr. Markus Schauer, Köln/Bamberg.)

Hanna Szabelska (Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland)
Boethius as a Transmitter of Aristotle's Linguistic Conventionalism

Gherardo Ugolini (Universitŕ di Verona, Italia)
Talpe e centauri. La critica di Nietzsche alla filologia classica

Gyburg Uhlmann (Freie Universität Berlin, Deutschland)
The Transformation in the ancient Concept of the Seven Liberal Arts in 14th and 15th century a.D. and its Importance for the Development of the Humanities

Betine van Zyl Smit (University of Nottingham, United Kingdom)
The Oresteia and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Olga Vardazaryan (Yerevan State University, Armenia)
Some Remarks on Philo and Catechetical Tradition

Irene M. Weiss (Universität Mainz, Deutschland)
Roma en Chile. La tradición antigua como trasfondo de la conquista de América

Graham Whitaker (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)
Bringing Nachleben to Britain