Thursday 18 April 2024
9:00–9:15 Welcome
9:15–10:00 Keynote speaker: Jane Masséglia (Leicester): Old Wives’ Tales: Elderly Women in Greek Ritual Practice
10:00–10:45 Giuseppe Zanetto (Milan): ‘Touching the God’: The Key Role of Female Figures in the Establishment of New Religious Practices
10:45–11:15 Coffee Break
11:15–12:00 Giulia Frigerio (Oslo): Pythias and Hierophantids: Designated Guardians of Secret Knowledge
12:00–12:45 Judith Hendriksma (Oslo): Serving the God and Serving the Cult: Epiphany, Aetiology and Agency in the Homeric Hymns
12:45–14:15 Lunch break
14:15–15:00 Elli Papazoi (Graz) and Sotiria Dimopoulou (Münster): Searching for Kore in Ancient Arcadia: Innovative Approaches to the Cult and the Interpretation of a Female Deity
15:00–15:45 Ariadne Konstantinou (Ramat Gan): Hestia at Delphi
15:45–16:15 Coffee break
16:15–17:00 Daniela Milo (Naples): Women and the Sacred in Melanippe’s Speech (Euripides’ fr. 494 Kannicht)
17:00–17:45 Georgios Lenos and Sofia Giapantzali (Komotini): Female Bodies and loci sacri in Callimachus’ Hymn to Artemis
Friday 19 April 2024
9:15–10:00 Keynote speaker: Efrosyni Boutsikas (Kent): Maidens in Motion: Female Ritual Dancing as Cosmic Performance in Ancient Greece
10:00–10:45 Beatrice Gavazza (Freiburg i.Br.): Singing Dances for the Gods: Poetic Representations of Female Agency in Myth and Ritual
10:45–11:15 Coffee Break
11:15–12:00 Amy Arden (Leicester): Heavenly Bodies: The Mythological Women Bound in Constellations and the Historic Women Empowered by Them
12:00–12.45 Pasquale Ferrara (Potsdam): Il femminile dionisiaco e il valore cultuale delle menadi storiche in Grecia
12:45–14:15 Lunch break
14:15–15:00 Camila Aline Zanon (Campinas): The Agency of Gaia (Earth) in Hesiod’s Theogony
15:00–15:45 Adriana Beneduce (Naples): Cassandra’s Legacy: Uncovering the Connection between Myth and Cult in Lycophron’s Alexandra
15:45–16:15 Coffee Break
16:15–17:00 Kerasia Stratiki (Patras/Nicosia): Iphigénie en Attique. Prêtresse, protectrice et sauveuse
17:00–17:45 Valentina Caruso (Naples): L’Auge di Euripide: la forza ‘sovversiva’ della sacerdotessa
The conference is open to the general public and held in hybrid format (papers will be given inperson). Those interested in participating are kindly requested to register via email by 11 April 2024 at 12:00h CEST, indicating whether you would like to participate in person or digitally.
The conference is generously funded by the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme.