
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

Featured image: I. Rizos, Athenian Evening or On the Terrace, 1897 (National Gallery, Athens)