Ioannis Doukas, NUI Galway In my paper, I focus on the Wooden Horse tradition, whose earliest known narrative representations were included in two poems of the Epic Cycle, the Little Iliad and the Sack of Troy, attributed respectively, in the majority of sources, to Lesches and Arctinus and presumably dated… Read more
Manos Tsakiris, University of Edinburgh* To say that Apollonius was influenced by Homeric poetry would be—apart from redundant—an understatement. Apollonius writes an epic story in dactylic hexameter, closely imitating the Homeric diction throughout his poem and (rather heavily) drawing from the Homeric epics in ways… Read more
Christos Aristopoulos, University of Cyprus As a part of my research on Hadrian’s Panhellenion, [1] a league of Greek cities under the Roman Empire, I noticed the very strange case of the city member of Synnada and the local cult of the hero Akamas, son… Read more
Thanos Makris, King’s College London Project link: https://thanosgames.itch.io/the-odyssey Abstract This paper aims to demonstrate how a digital-born medium, the video game, can be used as an epistemological tool to study the oral tradition. Video games, in contrast with other media, combine storytelling with play. For Alexander R. Galloway, “Games… Read more
Lorena Lopes da Costa, Federal University of Western Pará, Brazil The reception of epic poetry by Brazilian writer João Guimarães Rosa (1908–1967) is an important factor for our understanding of his literature. Rosa is a celebrated author in Brazil and known as one of the most important writers in the… Read more
Loes Wolters, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands* Introduction Traditionally, humor research in the classics has focused on the Greek and Roman comedies, meant to make the audience laugh out loud. Recently, the comic side of the classics has received more scholarly attention, for example in… Read more
Tjaden Lotito, Western Colorado University in Gunnison I have long had an interest in the mystery of ancient nomadic consciousness. It is fascinating to contemplate how different the consciousness of pre-literate people would have been from our own. The technology of writing has had an irreversible effect on human cognition… Read more
Blaž Zabel, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia The name of an Albanian writer living between Paris and Tirana, Ismail Kadare (b. 1936), has been well known to classicists. [1] Homerists will have heard of his novel The File on H. (published in Albanian as Dosja H… Read more
Isabella Nova, Università Cattolica di Milano* 1. Introduction This paper will focus on the depiction by the Sosias Painter portraying Achilles healing the wounded Patroclus. This representation was chosen as a case-study in order to show how epic characters and situations were reproduced in iconography. Read more
