Conference Announcement: Myth and Rhetoric – Novel Approaches to Greek Tragedy

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International Postgraduate Conference

1st-2nd March 2019, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
(Germany)

Keynote Speakers: Prof. Dr. Gunther Martin (Zürich), Prof. Dr.
Andrea Rodighiero (Verona)

The Department of Classics of the Julius-Maximilians-Universität
Würzburg is pleased to announce the International Postgraduate
Conference on “Myth and Rhetoric: Novel Approaches to Greek Tragedy”.
The conference is to be held in the Institut für Klassische
Philologie, Würzburger Residence (Residenzplatz 2, Tor A, 97070
Würzburg), Southern wing (right gate and courtyard), 3rd floor.
The wine tasting dinner will be held on the 1th of March inside our
Institute. If you would like to attend the conference meal we ask you
to please register by Friday the 22nd February (at a cost of 23EUR per
person).
For further information or queries, please contact Sabrina Mancuso
(nihil@hotmail.it) or Vanessa Zetzmann
(vanessa.zetzmann@uni-wuerzburg.de).

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Location: Greek Library (3rd floor, Residenzplatz 2)

FRIDAY, 1 MARCH 2019

from 13:00 Arrival and Registration

14:00-15:00 Opening Lecture, Gunther Martin,
Zürich: /Admet// //als// Rhetoriker und Pragmatiker/

15:00-16:30
Henrik Vollbracht, Marburg:
/Sympathielenkung als rhetorische Strategie in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon/
Saskia Schomber, Gießen:
/Die Rhetorik der Körper. Ein Vergleich der Wagenszenen in
Aischylos’ Agamemnon und/
/Euripides’ Elektra /

16:30-17:00 Coffee Break

17:00-18:30
Ronald Blankenborg, Nijmegen:
/Acting through words: Euripides’ Medea as //seductress// /
Vanessa Zetzmann, Würzburg:
/Der Medea-Mythos im Agon/

19:00-20:00 Evening Lecture, Andrea Rodighiero, Verona: /Caratteri
e convenzioni retorico-formali nella tragedia attica/

20:00-22:00 Conference Dinner: Franconian Wine Tasting (in
cooperation with Weingut Reiss, Würzburg)

SATURDAY, 2 MARCH 2019

9:00-10:30
Alexandre Johnston, Pisa:
/Twisted Words in Sophocles/
Severin Hof, Zürich:
/Mythenverwendung in Sophokles’ Aias/

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:30
Martina Delucchi, Bristol:
/Drama, art //and// rhetoric: The Telephus Myth/
Camille Semenzato, Zürich:
/Wörter zusammenstellen – Mythen herstellen/

12:30-14:00 Lunch Break

14:00-15:30
Marco Catrambone, Pisa:
/Politeness, Rhetoric //and// Myth in the Agon of Sophocles’ Electra/
Martin Bauer, Innsbruck:
/Dynamics of Myth and Space in the ‘Electra tragedies’ of Aeschylus
and Euripides/

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:30
Francesco Moles, Bari:
/Le rheseis di Andromaca ed Elena nelle Troiane: retorica,
intertestualità e intratestualità/
Sabrina Mancuso, Tübingen:
/Euripides’ selective amnesia in mythical paradigms/

17:30-18:00 Closing Remarks

Looking forward to see you in Würzburg!

Best wishes,

Vanessa Zetzmann (PhD candidate in Greek Language and Literature at
the University of Würzburg)

Sabrina Mancuso (PhD candidate in Greek Language and Literature at
the University of Tübingen)