Epic Heroes Then and Now
March 28-29, 2008
Whitney Humanities Center
Organized by Corinne Pache (Classics) and Kathryn Slanski (NELC)
This two-day conference explores the relationships between masterworks of ancient Near Eastern and Classical epic and their re-workings by later Western authors and artists. We seek to raise questions about how ancient narratives and characters remain inspiring - self-consciously or not - for writers and artists of the Western tradition through the modern period, and how the modern works in turn can help us understand the ancient ones. Members of the Yale community from the Classics, Comparative Literature, and NELC departments will participate, and the World Performance Project will preview their forthcoming work, “Project O” (a multimedia performance about Orpheus).
Speakers: Anna Bonifazi, David Damrosch, David Ferry, Simon Goldhill, Emily Greenwood, Stefan Maul, Gregory Nagy, Oliver Taplin, Rosanna Warren.
Free and open to the public.
For information email corinne.pache@yale.edu or kathryn.slanski@yale.edu
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