Keynote Lecture : Cléo Carastro, EHESS, Paris, “When ritual is critical thinking: writing and divination in Ancient Greece”
Convenors : Nicholas Purcell, Brasenose College and Vivien Prigent, MFO

Programme:

2.00 PM

Keynote Lecture: Cléo Carastro (EHESS, Paris), When ritual is a critical thinking: writing and divination in ancient Greece

3.30 PM Tea and coffee break

4.00-6.30 PM

Alessandro Buccheri (EHESS, Paris), Botanical Metaphors in Pindar’s Olympic II

Vasso Zachari (EHESS, Paris), On the Use of the Altar on Attic Vase-painting. Words and Images

Michael Economou (Wolfson College), Administrative, Ethnic and Religious Boundaries in Late Hellenistic Palestine
Theodore Hill (University College), Ruler-stories in Herodotus and their Reflections in Tragedy