Join us on Friday, April 25 and Saturday, April 26 for a live webcast of the Center for Hellenic Studies Research Symposium. The stream will be available at rtsp://stream.chs.harvard.edu/HouseA, viewable with VLC Media Player or Quicktime 7. To connect via VLC, go to File > Open Network and paste the link into the URL field. For Quicktime 7, go to File > Open URL and paste in the link.
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Friday, April 25
Session 1, 11:00am-12:30pm (EDT)
“Prevention or Cure? Tax Exemptions in a Warfare Context: Miletos and the Low Valley of the Meander (early 2nd C. BCE)”
Aurélie Carrara, Université de Rouen and UMR 5607 Ausonius, CNRS-Bordeaux
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“Trojan War by Homer: Retaliation, Narrative Order and Cretan Focus”
Graciela Zecchin de Fasano, Universidad Nacional de La Plata
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“Hellenistic Information in China”
Juping Yang, Nankai University
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Session 2, 2:00-3:30pm (EDT)
“Early Reperformances of Drama in the Fifth Century”
Anna Lamari, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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“Οὐ τὸ νικᾶν ἀλλὰ τὸ εὖ ἀγωνίζεσθαι: Playing to Win or to Show Off? Itinerant Artists Performing in Unconventional ἀγῶνες in Some Decrees from Delphi (III-I BC)”
Angela Cinalli, Sapienza-University of Rome
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“What Thumb’s Handbook Tells Us About the Development of Contemporary Greek”
Mark Janse, Ghent University and Brian Joseph, The Ohio State University
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Session 3, 4:00-5:30pm (EDT)
“Leisure Rules in Archaic Greece: Legislation on Inebriation and Foul Play in Literary and Epigraphic Sources”
Elena Martín González, Institute of Historical Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation
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“Plato and Xenophon on Friendship: A Comparative Study (Plato, Lysis and Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.6)”
Melina Tamiolaki, University of Crete
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“The Tyrant’s Network: Appearances of Characters in the Letters of Phalaris”
Emeline Marquis, UMR 8546 “Archéologie et Philologie d’Orient et d’Occident”, CNRS-ENS, Paris
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Saturday, April 26
Session 4, 11:00am-12:30pm (EDT)
“Placing the Muses: Eumelus, fragments 34-35 (West)”
Christos Tsagalis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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“Chronos, Kronos, and the Kronion Hill: the Spatialization of Time in Pindar’s Olympian 10”
Maria Pavlou, Open University of Cyprus
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“Reclining with Callinus and Tyrtaeus: Martial Elegy in the Symposion”
Vanessa Cazzato, Radboud University
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