Programme
Friday, 19/6/2009
18:00-20:00
- Reception and coffee
- Alexander MAZARAKIS AINIAN:
(University of Thessaly)
- Addressing and honouring heroes and distinguished dead in Geometric Greece
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- Dimitris PALAIOTHODOROS:
(University of Thessaly)
- Images of ghosts in the visual arts of the archaic and classical periods
- Yannis TZIFOPOULOS:
(University of Thessaloniki)
- Encountering death, before and after: The Bacchic-Orrphic incised lamellae
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- Dinner
Saturday, 20/6/2009
10:00-13:30
- Nick WYATT:
(University of Edinburgh)
- Encounters between the living and the dead in the ancient Semitic world
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- Panagiotis KOUSOULIS:
(University of the Aegean)
- The demonic identity of the dead and its ritual manipulation in the Egyptian underworld: The evidence from the New Kingdom and the Third Intermediate Period
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- Coffee
- Nanno MARINATOS:
(University of Illinois at Chicago)
- The Stone in the Soul
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- Spyros RANGOS:
(University of Patras)
- Rebirth and liberation across philosophy and religious imagery until Plato
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- Lunch
17:00-20:30
- Vayos LIAPIS:
(University of Montreal)
- Neither stone-dead nor stone-deaf
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- Eleni PACHOUMI:
(University of Thessaly)
- Encounters with the dead in magic: Resurrection of the body?
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- Tea
- Jan BREMMER:
(University of Groningen)
- Ancient Necromancy: Fact or Fiction?
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- Dimitris KYRTATAS:
(University of Thessaly)
- Communications with the living-dead in Christian Egypt
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- Dinner
Sunday, 21/6/2009
10:00-13:00
- Suzanne LYE:
(University of California - Los Angeles)
- Necromancy and Cultural Identity in Heliodorus' Aithiopika
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- Matthew DICKIE:
(University of Illinois at Chicago)
- Eustratius, presbyter Constantinopolitanus, De statu animarum post mortem
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- Einar THOMASSEN:
(University of Bergen)
- Intercession and the special dead
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- Lunch
