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  • From: jmaclean AT roanoke.edu (Dr. Jennifer Maclean)
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  • Subject: Heroikos Conference
  • Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 17:31:57 -0500

Apologies for the cross postings.
 

The conference “Philostratus’ Heroikos, Religion, and Cultural Identity” will be held on May  4-6, 2001 at Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts.  The last decade has witnessed a renaissance of interest in the Heroikos, the sophist Philostratus' artful, humorous, and often subversive retelling of the lives of the heroes from the Trojan War.  Recent translations have appeared in German, Italian, Spanish, Modern Greek, and the first English translation is forthcoming (Society of Biblical Literature, Writings From the Graeco-Roman World Series).  The Heroikos now stands in the center of many issues engaging Classicists, and this conference will use this third-century text as a springboard for exploring questions of religion, cultural identity, literary activity, the reception of Homer, oral poetry, and politics at the cusp of late antiquity.  Those interested in the development of Early Christianity will find that the Heroikos addresses many of the same issues faced by Christian communities (e.g., the relation of an emerging canon of texts to local traditions) and that Early Christian belief and practice will be illumined when studied within the context of contemporaneous strategies of creating religious meaning, such as are visible in the Heroikos.  An international team of scholars will present papers in the following sessions:

Hero Cult in the Second and Third Centuries CE

  • Corinne Pache, Yale University, "Singing Heroes"
  • Albert Henrichs, Harvard University, "Keeping Dead Heroes Alive: The Revival of Hero Cult in the Heroikos"
  • Susan Alcock, University of Michigan, "Material witness: an archaeological context for the Heroikos"
  • Christopher Jones, Harvard University, "Apollonius of Tyana, Hero and Holy Man"
The Heroikos of Philostratus
  • Jeffrey Rusten, Cornell University, "Philostratus' Gymnasticus and Heroicus"
  • Simone Follet, Université de Paris-Sorbonne, "L'Héroïque de Philostrate et l'Égée du Nord"
  • Froma Zeitlin, Princeton University, "Viewing the Heroes:  Philostratus' Heroikos and the Culture of Visuality in the Second Sophistic"
  • Francesca Mestre, University of Barcelona, "Refuting Homer in the Heroikos of Philostratus"
Hellenes and Foreigners
  • Timothy Whitmarsh, St. John's College, Cambridge, "In the Margins of Greek Literature: Genre and Geography in the Heroikos"
  • Ellen B. Aitken, Harvard Divinity School,  "Why a Phoenician?:  A Proposal for the Historical Occasion for the Heroikos"
  • Simon Goldhill, Cambridge, "Philostratus: Greekness and its Context"
The Heroikos and Early Christianity
  • Jackson Hershbell, University of Minnesota, "Philostratus and Early Christianity:  Heroes, Martyrs, and Saints"
  • James Skedros, Holy Cross School of Theology, "The Heroikos and Popular Christianity in the 3rd Century C.E."
  • Dennis Ronald MacDonald, Claremont School of Theology, "The Heroikos and the Acts of Andrew:  Contemporary Criticisms of Homer"
Syria and the Severan Dynasty
  • Drora Baharal, Open University of Israel, "Caracalla, Alexander the Great, and the Second Sophistic"
  • Alain Blomart, University of Barcelona, "Transferring the Cults of Heroes in Ancient Greece:  A Political and Religious Deed"
  • Rahim Shayegan, Harvard University, "The Cult of Alexander the Great under the Late Severans and Its Impact Upon the Political Ideology of the Late Arsacids (Parthians) and the Early Sasanians"
  • Sidney H. Griffith, Catholic University of America, "Mani, Bar Daysan, and the Struggle for Christian Allegiance in Syria in the Third Century"
Translation and Pedagogy Panel
  • Gregory Nagy, Harvard University
  • Francesca Mestre, University of Barcelona
  • Peter Grossardt, Harvard University and University of Freiburg (Switzerland)
  • Casey Dué, Harvard University
Further conference information, including paper abstracts, a summary of the Heroikos, and the registration form can be found on the Heroikos Project web site (http://www2.roanoke.edu/religion/maclean/Heroikos/HomePage.html).  We encourage early registration (by April 1) to facilitate the planning of conference details.  The conference organizers, Jennifer Berenson Maclean (jmaclean AT roanoke.edu) and Ellen B. Aitken (ellen_aitken AT harvard.edu), may also be contacted by e-mail.
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  • Heroikos Conference, Dr. Jennifer Maclean, 03/21/2001

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