‘Plateuripidizein. An Interdisciplinary Dialogue on Plato and Euripides’
The workshop will take place in Durham, in the Ritson Room of the Department of Classics and Ancient History (38 North Bailey), and will be streamed online via MS Teams on 28-30 May 2026.
For the MS Teams link or further information, please contact penelope.volpi@unimi.it or giulia.bernardini@durham.ac.uk
Day 1 – 28 May
10.30-10.45 am: welcome and registration
10.45-11.00 am: introductory remarks
Panel 1 – chair Judy Quinn (Durham University)
11.00-11.45 am: Fritz-Gregor Herrmann (Swansea University), Top-flight? The Transformation of a Euripidean Story in Plato’s Phaedrus
11.45 am-12.00 pm: coffee break
12.00-12.45 pm: Giorgia Lugani (University of Cambridge), Euripides, Socrates (and Plato) as Readers of Heraclitus
12.45-2.00 pm: lunch break
Panel 2 – chair Lorenzo Iuliano (Durham University)
2.00-2.45 pm: Franco Trabattoni (University of Milan), A Sophistic Dionysus? Plato vs. Euripides
2.45-3.30 pm: Giulia Bernardini (Durham University), Euripides and Plato on (Self-)Ignorance and its Tragic(omic) Consequences
3.30-3.45 pm: coffee break
3.45-4:30 pm: Elizabeth Pender (University of Leeds), Poetic Allusion in Plato: Ambiguity and Ironic Distance
Day 2 – 29 May
Panel 3 – chair Izzy Grout (Durham University)
9.30-10.15 am: Zara Amdur (Texas Tech University), The Role of Mαῖα in Euripides’ Hippolytus and Plato’s Theaetetus
10.15-10.30 am: coffee break
10.30-11.15 am: Chiara Blanco (Newcastle University), Tainted Love: Rethinking Phaedra’s Erotic Passion in Light of Plato’s Symposium
11.15 am-12.00 pm: Penelope Volpi (University of Milan), Science, Sacrality, and Theriomorphism. The Legacy of Euripides’ Wise Melanippe in Plato’s Symposium
12.00-1.00 pm: lunch break
Panel 4 – chair Ioannis Ziogas (Durham University)
1.00-1.45 pm: Sarah Miles (Durham University), Plato’s Symposium and Euripides’ Heracles: A Phenomenological Focus
1.45-2.30 pm: Nikos Charalabopoulos (University of Patras), Dead Poets Society: Euripides’ Heracles and Plato’s Republic
2.30-3.15 pm: Andrea Capra (University of Milan), Euripides’ Dionysus and the Symposium
3.15-3.45 pm: coffee break
Panel 5 – chair Wenhao Yang (Durham University)
3.45-4.30 pm: Maria Cristina Mennuti (University of Tübingen), Who Governs Human Life? The Daimon’s Ambiguous Agency in Euripides’ Tragedy and Plato’s Philosophy
4.30-5.15 pm: Edith Hall (Durham University), Appalling Women and Praise of Tyranny: Plato (Mis)understanding of Euripides
7.30 pm: conference dinner
Day 3 – 30 May
Panel 6 – chair Giulia Bernardini (Durham University)
9.30-10.15 am: Jurgen Gatt (University of Malta), Self-knowledge and the Law in Late 5th Century: Euripides, Socrates, and the Sophists
10.15-11.00 am: Elena Sofia Capra (University of the Republic of San Marino), A Civil War Myth for Attica: Eumolpus against Athens between Euripides’ Erechtheus and Plato’s Menexenus
11.00 am-11.45 am: George Gazis (Durham University), Socratic and Euripidean approaches to incompetent audiences
11.45 am-12.15 pm: coffee break
12.15-1.30 pm: roundtable – chair Penelope Volpi (University of Milan)
1.30 pm: closing remarks
Note: this is not a Classical Association event – please contact the organisers directly with any enquiries.