The Reception of Ancient Greek Tragic Myth
Sun Dec 21, 2014
09:30
Location
Holiday Inn Nicosia
70 Rigenis Street
Nicosia, Nicosia 1504
Maria Pavlou
Description
International conference on the reception of ancient Greek tragic myth in modern Greek poetry and theatre of the 20th and 21st centuries
Venue: Holiday Inn, 70 Rigenis Street, Nicosia, Cyprus
Registration is free but required. Please visit the “eumenides” website at: eumenides.ouc.ac.cy/events/conference-programme
The conference is organised by the Research Project “,“Our Heroic Debate with the Εumenides: Greek Tragedy and the Poetics of Identity in Modern Greek Poetry and Theatre”, which is funded by the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation and is hosted by the Open University of Cyprus at eumenides.ouc.ac.cy. The aim of the project is to catalogue and analyse the multifarious ways in which ancient Greek tragedy and tragic myth have been adapted, reinterpreted, revised, or re-imagined in modern Greek poetry and theatre from the late 19th century to the present day. In particular, the project explores the various ways in which Greek tragedy has been a crucial factor in the formation of a poetics and a politics of modern Greek national and cultural identity. The papers of the conference seek to address these issues by looking at a wide range of poets and playwrights including, among others, Cavafy, Seferis, Ritsos, Demetriades, Charalambides, Matesis, and Pontikas.
PROGRAMME
Sunday, 21 December 2014
8:30-9:30 Registration
9:30-10:00 Opening and Welcome
10:00-10:30 Lorna Hardwick
Can Transmission and Transformation be Reconciled?
10:30-11:00 Dimitris Tziovas
Between Homage and Appropriation: Politicising and (De)mythologising the Ancient Past in Modern Greek Poetry
11:00-11:20 Discussion
11:20-11:40 Coffee & Tea
11.40-12:10 Roderick Beaton
Between Myth and History: Seferis’ Mythistorema and the Modernist Reception of Classical Drama
12:10-12:40 Michael Paschalis
George Seferis and Euripides’ Bacchae
12:40-13:00 Discussion
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30- 15:00 Ioannis Konstantakos
Very Tragical Mirth: Myth and the Tragic in Pavlos Matesis’ Towards Eleusis
15:00-15:30 Gonda van Steen
The Greeks’ Heroic Debate with Aeschylus’ Persians: Tragedy Meets History, Myth, and Melodrama in the 1805 Persians or Xerxes of Demetriades
15:30-15:50 Discussion
15:50- 16:10 Coffee & Tea
16:10- 16:40 Antonis Petrides
Dialogising Aeschylus in the poetry of Kyriakos Charalambides
16:40-17:10 Theodoros Grammatas & Maria Dimaki-Zora
Memories of Heroines in Memories of Spectators. Mythic, Dramatic and Theatrical Time from the Ancient Drama to the Modern Greek Theatre
17:10-17:30 Discussion
20.00 Dinner
Monday, 22 December 2014
9:00-9:30 Anastasia Bakogianni
Electra as a Modern Greek Survivor: The Figure of the Tragic Heroine in the Poetry of Yannis Ritsos.
9:30-10:00 Demetra Demetriou
Myth, the Mask, and the “Masquerade” of Femininity: Performing Gender in Yannis Ritsos’ Ismene
10:00-10:20 Discussion
10:20-10:40 Coffee & Tea
10:40-11:10 Vayos Liapis
Cassandra and the Centaur: Greek (Tragic) Myth in Marios Pontikas’ Play Neighing.
11:10-11:20 Discussion
11:20-12:30 Closing Remarks
End of Conference
12.30 Lunch