Programme

Sunday, October 12
University Main Building, lecture hall IX
ANNIE VERBANCK-PIÉRARD,
“Roundtrip to Hades:
Heracles’ advice and directions”
10.00–10.45
LARS BERGLUND,
“Orpheus’ descent to Hades and
the representation of the underworld
in early Italian opera, 1600–1647”
roundtrip to
HADES
With the kind support of:
10.45–11.15Coffee
11.15–12.00
ADAM GOLDWYN,
“A New England underworld:
The politics and poetics of katabasis
in the Hartford Wits’ mock-epic
Anarchiad (1786–87)”
12.00–12.45 Final discussion and concluding
remarks (INGELA NILSSON)
13.00Lunch
KUNGL. HUMANISTISKA
VETENSKAPSSAMFUNDET
I UPPSALA
HELGE AX:SON JOHNSSONS
STIFTELSE
G R A P H I C D E S I G N : S I R J E PA P P
9.15–10.00
roundtrip to
HADES
visits to the underworld
in the eastern mediterranean
tradition
Organizers:
Ingela Nilsson,
Department of linguistics and philology
(ingela.nilsson@lingfil.uu.se)
Gunnel Ekroth,
Department of archaeology and ancient history
(gunnel.ekroth@antiken.uu.se)
Uppsala University, October 9–12, 2014
www.arkeologi.uu.se
Thursday, October 9
Friday, October 10
Saturday 11 October
University Main Building, lecture hall IX
University Main Building, lecture hall X
University Main Building, lecture hall IX
18.00 Welcome from convenors
and introductory remarks
(GUNNEL EKROTH)
9.15–10.00
9.15–10.00
18.30
10.00–10.45 HEINZ-GÜNTHER NESSELRATH,
“Down there and back again: variations
on the katabasis theme in Lucian”
Opening lecture by FRITZ GRAF,
“Into the Hole of Hell!
Travels to the Beyond
from Gilgamesh to Dante”
MIGUEL HERRERO DE JÁUREGUI,
“Die only once: pathein and mathein
in the journeys to Hades”
PIERRE BONNECHERE,
“Les effets sonores d’une catabase”
10.00–10.45 HENRY MAGUIRE,
“When and why did Hades become beautiful in Byzantine art?”
10.45–11.15Coffee
10.45–11.15Coffee
19.30Reception
11.15–12.00
MARIA STAMATOPOULOU
& SOPHIA KRAVARITOU,
“From Alcestis to Archidike. Thessalian round trips to Hades”
12.00–12.45 SARAH ILES JOHNSTON,
“On the absence of revenants in ancient Greek conceptualizations of death”
12.45–14.30Lunch
14.30–15.15 IVANA PETROVIC & ANDREJ PETROVIC, “Tartarus as a divine alternative to Hades”
15.15–16.00 ZISSIS D. AINALIS, “From Hades to Hell: Christian visions of the underworld”
11.15–12.00 WIEBKE FRIESE,
“Following the dead: ritual topography of Graeco-Roman entrances to Hades”
12.00–12.45 EUNICE DAUTERMAN MAGUIRE, “Hades and the belly: exploring the
Byzantine physical imagination”
12.45–14.00Lunch
14.00–14.45
CECILIA WASSÉN,
“Did Jesus visit Hades?
An examination of the earliest beliefs surrounding Jesus’ death
and resurrection”
14.45–15.30 THOMAS ARENTZEN,
“The Virgin in Hades”
16.00–16.30Coffee
15.45
16.30–17.15
SANDRA KARLSSON, “Behind the doors
of Hades. Iconographic cues to the perception of the underworld”
17.15–18.00
SCOTT SCULLION, “Orphic routes to Hades”
19.00
Dinner for speakers at Villa Anna
Excursion to Gamla Uppsala