Reception of Ancient Greek Tragic Myth
in Modern Greek Poetry and Theatre of the 20th Century
Open University of Cyprus, Nicosia, 21-22 December 2014
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Sunday, 21 December 2014
8:30-9:30 Registration
9:30-10:00 Opening and Welcome
10:00-10:30 Lorna Hardwick
Can Transmission and Transformation be Reconciled?
10:30-11:00 Dimitris Tziovas
Between Homage and Appropriation: Politicising and (De)mythologising the Ancient Past in Modern Greek Poetry
11:00-11:20 Discussion
11:20-11:40 Coffee & Tea
11.40-12:10 Roderick Beaton
Between Myth and History: Seferis’s Mythistorema and the Modernist Reception of Classical Drama
12:10-12:40 Michael Paschalis
George Seferis and Euripides’ Bacchae
12:40-13:00 Discussion
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30- 15:00 Ioannis Konstantakos
Very Tragical Mirth: Myth and the Tragic in Pavlos Matesis’ Towards Eleusis
15:00-15:30 Gonda van Steen
The Greeks’ Heroic Debate with Aeschylus’ Persians: Tragedy Meets History, Myth, and Melodrama in the 1805 Persians or Xerxes of Demetriades
15:30-15:50 Discussion
15:50- 16:10 Coffee & Tea
16:10- 16:40 Antonis Petrides (TBA)
16:40-17:10 Theodoros Grammatas & Mary Dimaki-Zora
Memories of heroines in memories of spectators.
Mythic, Dramatic and Theatrical Time from the ancient drama to the Modern Greek Theatre
17:10-17:30 Discussion
20.00 Dinner
Monday, 22 December 2014
9:00-9:30 Anastasia Bakogianni
Electra as a modern Greek survivor: The Figure of the Tragic Heroine in the Poetry of Yannis Ritsos.
9:30-10:00 Demetra Demetriou
Myth, the Mask, and the “Masquerade” of Femininity: Performing Gender in Yannis Ritsos’s Ismene
10:00-10:20 Discussion
10:20-10:40 Coffee & Tea
10:40-11:10 Vayos Liapis
Cassandra and the Centaur: Greek (Tragic) Myth in Marios Pontikas’ play Neighing.
11:10-13:00 Closing Remarks
End of Conference
13.00 Lunch
