‘The Ancient Wrath of Ares: Studies in Euripides’ Phoenician Women’
17 – 18 October 2024
This online-only conference, convened by Edith Hall and Rosie Wyles (Durham) and Vayos Liapis (Open University of Cyprus), in collaboration with the Oxford APGRD, will take place on Thursday, October 17 – Friday, October 18, 2024. The conference was prompted by the summer 2024 production of Phoenissae by the Cyprus Theatre Organisation, directed by Magdalena Zira; the production was timed to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. The programme is detailed below.
To register to receive the Zoom links please email Dr Rosie Wyles at mary.r.wyles@durham.ac.uk
Programme
Thursday 17th October
0900 (UK TIME) Welcome
0940 Magdalena Zira (Fantastiko Theatro): Euripides has already done it: what the Phoenician Women can teach us about theatre-making in the 21st century.
10.10 Andrea Gianotti (Durham): The Solitude of Polynices: Language and Space in Euripides’ Phoenician Women
1040 Coffee break
1100 Vasia Kousoulini (Patras): The Toxic Positivity of the Maiden Chorus, Post-Memory, and the Transgenerational Trauma of Rape in Euripides’ Phoenician Women
1130 Natasha Ferreira (Potchefstroom Campus South Africa): Victims of Injustice and Victims of Misfortune in Euripides’ Phoenician Women.
1200 Cassandre Martigny (Sorbonne): Political Issues in the Reception of Euripides’ Phoenician Women in the 16th century: Humanist Ideas versus Tyrannical Passions
12.30 LUNCH BREAK
1400 Nebojša Todorović (Harvard): Foreboding Phoenician Women: Paolo Magelli, Euripides, and the Breakup of Yugoslavia.
1430 Paul Eberwein (Princeton): Sacrificial Suicide: Choosing Death in Euripides’ Phoenician Women
1500 Tea break
1530 Amelia Bensch-Schaus (Davidson College): Enslavement and the Literary Tradition in the Phoenician Women
1600 Angharad Darden (Chicago): Solving the Riddle of the Sphinx: Iconography and Performance in Euripides’ Phoenician Women
Friday 18th October
9.00 Oliver Baldwin (Madrid): Spectral Paternities and Filial (Im)pietas in Seneca’s Phoenissae.
9.30 Lottie Parkyn (London): Here Come the Girls: Female Choral Representation in Martin Crimp’s The Rest Will be Familiar to You from Cinema
10.00 Antonis Petrides (Cyprus): The Phoenissae of Nikos Charalambous (Cyprus Theatre Organisation, 2002).
1030 Anactoria Clarke (Open University UK): Here comes Tiresias again: the Theban Prophet’s Recurrence in Athenian Tragedy.
1100 Roundtable after People Grab Coffee
1130-1200 Close