Programme
Sunday, 26 June 2005
13:00 - 14:30
Greetings
- Walter Burkert (University of Zurich):
- Pleading for hell: Ideals and fantasies of punishment
Discussion
17:30 - 21:00
- Nick Wyatt (University of Edinburgh):
- A west semitic perspective on the underworld
- Nanno Marinatos (University of Illinois):
- Minoan afterlife beliefs: Paradise or hell?
Break
- Pierre Bonnechere (University of Montreal):
- The sacred grove in Greek manntic rituals: The example of Trophonios' Alsos at Lebadea (Beotia)
- Vaios Liapis (University of Montreal):
- Babes in arms, rivers of mire: The somatics and scatology of ancient Greek eschatology
Monday, 27 June 2005
09:30 - 13:30
- Einar Thomassen (University of Bergen):
- Gnostic hell
- Jan Bremmer (University of Groningen):
- Ethics and the Apocalypse of Peter
Break
- Dimitris Kyrtatas (University of Thessaly):
- Sex and the afterlife
- Danuta Shanzer (University of Illinois):
- Avarice, the Church, and Hell in Late Antiquity
17:30 - 21:30
- Paul J. Griffiths (University of Illinois):
- Can the damned cease to exist? A disputable question in Christian eschatology
- Rika Benveniste (University of Thessaly):
- Medieval executions and the other world
Break
- John Papatheodorou (University of Thessaly):
- Exercising the imagination: The politics of damnation
- Michalis Paschalis (University of Crete):
- Homer, Plato, and Dante in Kazantzakis' "The life and deeds of Alexis Zorba"
Conclusions
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