Hymns as Narrative and the Narratology of Hymns

International Classics Conference

9-10 May 2009Conference Poster: Hymns as Narrative

During the weekend of 9-10 May an international Classics conference was held at Lampeter on ancient hymns and their connections with narrative. The conference covered the archaic to the late antique (‘pagan’ and Christian) periods. The conference was one of the 2009 activities organised by KYKNOS, the Swansea–Lampeter Centre for Research on the Narrative Literatures of the Ancient World. During the conference Classics material from the university’s Special Collections was displayed in the Roderic Bowen Research Centre.

Speakers and topics

Athanassios Vergados (Franklin & Marshall College) – Viewing Hermes’ cave: a case of focalisation

Andrew Faulkner (University of Waterloo) – The Silence of Zeus: Speech in the Homeric Hymns

Prof. Nicholas Richardson (Oxford) – 'Narrative strategies in the longer Homeric Hymns (nos. 2,3,4 and 5)'

Prof. Ewen Bowie (Oxford) – ‘Time and place, narrative and speech in Philodamus, Philicus and Limenius'

Ursula Bergstrom (Chicago) – ‘What just happened? Reconstructing the fabulae in Callimachus' Hymns’

Mirjam Plantinga (UWL) – ‘The Narrative of praise: Callimachus’ Hymn to Delos’

Owen Hodkinson (UWL) – ‘Narrative in Aelius Aristides’ Hymns’ (TBC)

Michael Brumbaugh (UCLA) – ‘Making the Hymn: Mesomedean narrative and the interpretation of a genre’

Prof. Bill Furley (Heidelberg) – 'The punishment of Lykurgos in the Tbilisi Hymn to Dionysos (P.Ross.Georg. I.11) and related hymnic narratives of the Imperial Age'

Nicola Devlin (King’s College, London) – ‘The philosopher and his Muse: Proclus' approach to hymnic narrative’

Organisers

Dr. Mirjam Plantinga, University of Wales Trinity St David

Dr. Owen Hodkinson, University of Wales Trinity St David