Booking is now open for the upcoming conference Time, Tense and Genre in Ancient Greek Literature. The conference is convened by Connie Bloomfield-Gadêlha and Edith Hall and will take place on 12 September 2019 - 13 September 2019 in King's College, London. 

Time, Tense and Genre in Ancient Greek Literature is a conference created in response to increasing interest in the evocation of time in classical literature under the influence of Aristotle’s discussion of the temporal modes in which different varieties of speech operate in the Rhetoric, Suzanne Langer’s Feeling and Form: a Theory of Art  (1953) and especially Mikhail Bakhtin’s argument that genres are ways of being in time. 

Keynote lectures will be delivered by Professor Felix Budelmann and Professor Sheila Murnaghan.

For more information and registration, please visit the King's eStore. 

Programme

Thursday 12 September 2019

09.45    Registration and Coffee 

10.20    Welcome (Connie Bloomfield and Edith Hall) 

Session 1: Archaic Time 

10.30    Tobias Myers: Imperfective Moments: The Celestial Perspective in Iliadic Battle Narratives 

11.00    Rioghnach Sachs: Homoeroticism, Time and the Determination of Genre in Sappho’s Fragments 

11.30    Alex Purves: Alcman, Sappho, and the ‘Lyric Present’ 

12.00    Break 

12.30    Peter Moench: Bending Time: Cosmic History and Human Temporality in Pindar’s Nemean 6 

13.00    Dimitar Dragnev: Aesop and the Future 

13.30     Lunch 

Session 2: Ethnographic and Historiographic Time 

14.30    Tobias Joho: Tense Usage, Dialogue Form and Characterization in Herodotus 

15.00    Keating McKeon: Perseid Wars and Notional Nostos in Herodotus’ Histories 

15.30    Kenneth Yu: Aetiology and Temporality in Greek Ethnographic Literature 

16.00    - 

16.30    Tea 

17.00    Keynote 1: Felix Budelmann   Tense, Aspect and Temporality in the Greek Lyric Present 

18.00    Drinks and Speakers’ Dinner 

Friday 13 September 2019 

Session 3: Time, Knowledge and Narrative  

09.00    Carol Atack: Temporalities of Knowledge in Plato’s Protagoras

09.30    Isobel Higgins: Conceptualising the Future in Lycophron’s Alexandra  

10.00    Alessandro Vatri: The Living Past: Tense and Genre in the Critical Essays of Dionysius of Halicarnassus 

10.30    Coffee 

11;00    Robert Rohland: The time of Dining and the Time of Death: Sardanapallus, Epitaphs and Performance 

11.30    Carlo Delle Donne: Tenses in the Genre of Greek Cosmology: the Case of Plutarch 

12.00    Jody Cundy: Turning Hierophany into Text: Pausanias on Lebadeia and the Oracle of Trophonius 

12.30    Lunch 

Session 4: Dramatic and Theatrical Time 

13.30    Keynote 2: Sheila Murnaghan - The Singularity of the Tragic Day 

14.30    Marcus Bell: Mis-step in Time—Dancing Elsewhen through Euripides’ Bakkhai 

15.00    Efstathia Athanasopoulou - Entangled in Time: Satyr Drama in Present Tense 

15.30    Tea 

16.00    Devan Turner: Silenus and the Chorus of Satyr Drama as Time Travellers 

16.30    Peter Swallow: Time in Old Comedy 

17.00    Roundtable Discussion over Wine  

18.00    Depart