The International Conference on the Reception of Ancient Greek Tragic Myth in Modern Greek Poetry and Theatre of the 20th and 21st Centuries, organised by the “Eumenides Project”, was held in December 2014 in Nicosia, Cyprus. The Conference, which was generously funded by the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation, included eleven papers by an international panel of scholars (Dimitris Tziovas, Roderick Beaton, Lorna Hardwick, Gonda van Steen, Michael Paschalis, Ioannis Konstantakos, Vayos Liapis, Anastasia Bakogianni, Maria Dimaki-Zora, Demetra Demetriou, and Antonis Petrides). You may listen to the presentations by clicking on the links below.
Address by Prof. Costas Christou, Chair of the Governing Board, Open University of Cyprus
& Welcome by Vayos Liapis, Principal Investigator of the “Eumenides” Project Video
Maria Pavlou
Presentation of the “Eumenides” Project and Website Video
Lorna Hardwick
Can Transmission and Transformation be Reconciled? Video
Dimitris Tziovas
Between Homage and Appropriation: Politicising and (De)mythologising the Ancient Past in Modern Greek Poetry Video
Roderick Beaton
Between Myth and History: Seferis’ Mythistorema and the Modernist Reception of Classical Drama Video
Michael Paschalis
George Seferis and Euripides’ Bacchae Video
Ioannis Konstantakos
Very Tragical Mirth: Myth and the Tragic in Pavlos Matesis’ Towards Eleusis Video
Gonda van Steen
The Greeks’ Heroic Debate with Aeschylus’ Persians: Tragedy Meets History, Myth, and Melodrama in the 1805 Persians or Xerxes of Demetriades Video
Antonis Petrides
Dialogising Aeschylus in the poetry of Kyriakos Charalambides Video
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 Video
Anastasia Bakogianni
Electra as a Modern Greek Survivor: The Figure of the Tragic Heroine in the Poetry of Yannis Ritsos. Video
Demetra Demetriou
Myth, the Mask, and the “Masquerade” of Femininity: Performing Gender in Yannis Ritsos’ Ismene Video
Vayos Liapis
Cassandra and the Centaur: Greek (Tragic) Myth in Marios Pontikas’ Play Neighing Video
Antonis Petrides
Conference Synopsis and Concluding Remarks Video
