Honour in Classical Greece: concluding symposium

Honour in Classical Greece

Concluding symposium

Edinburgh, 18-19 December 2023

Nelson Room of St Leonard’s Hall, Pollock Halls

Monday 18 December

2.00–2.10 welcome

2.10–3.10 Mirko Canevaro (Edinburgh), ‘Honour(s) for Citizens: Egalitarianism and Social Distinction in Democratic Athens’

3.10–3.30 tea and coffee

3.30–4.30 David Lewis (Edinburgh), ‘'Slavery and Honour in the Greek World’

4.30–5.30 Douglas Cairns (Edinburgh), ‘Hybris and Dishonour’

5.30–7.00 Reception in St Leonard’s Hall

Tuesday 19 December

9.30–10.30 Bianca Mazzinghi Gori (Turin), ‘The Roots of Honour: The Timê of Infants and Children’

10.30–11.30 Kleanthis Mantzouranis (Edinburgh), ‘How to be Polite: Aristotle on to philein and the Virtues of Sociability’

11.30–12.00 tea and coffee

12.00-1.00 Linda Rocchi (Copenhagen), ‘Technical and Non-technical Uses of atimia-Terminology: The Verbs atimaō/atimoō and atimazō in the Attic Orators’

1.00–2.00 lunch

2.00–3.00 Matteo Zaccarini (Bologna/Ravenna), ‘Fear and Honour: Cyrus the Great in Xenophon’s Cyropaedia

3.00–4.00 Alberto Esu (Zurich), ‘Honour and Hybris in Polybius’ Theory of Constitutional Change’

4.00–4.30 tea and coffee

4.30–5.00: Douglas Cairns and Mirko Canevaro, conclusions

5.00–5.30: Stephen Halliwell (St Andrews), response I

5.30–6pm Lisa Raphals (UC Riverside), response II

 

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