The Athens Dialogues - An International Conference on Culture and Civilization

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Summary: Aristotle famously identified the emotions that tragedy characteristically aroused as pity and fear—or rather, as eleos and phobos. His account offers an important clue to how ancient audiences responded to tragedy. To take advantage of his insight, however, one must consider what he meant by eleos and phobos. Words, after all, change t…[Read more]

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Summary: The modern perspective privileges its concept of logos over tekhne, particularly as they relate to material vs. verbal crafts. However, for the ancient Greeks, the two concepts have a non-subordinate relationship. Tekhne is closely associated with religious ritual, encompassing both modern “art” and “craft.” Logos is similarly broad,…[Read more]

Summary: This paper takes a fresh look at the spectacular finding of the new Sappho papyrus, the Cologne papyrus, and considers the different performance contexts of Sappho: the primary context in Lesbos and the secondary in Athens, at symposia and at the Panathenaea. The papyrus is a document of early Sapphic reception in Hellenistic times […]