ΠΡΟΣΚΛΗΣΗ
Τη Δευτέρα, 22 Απριλίου 2024, ώρα 12.00 μ.μ. και την Τρίτη, 23 Απριλίου 2024, ώρα 13.00 μ.μ. θα πραγματοποιηθούν στο πλαίσιο των «Επιστημονικών Συναντήσεων» που διοργανώνει ο Τομέας Κλασικής Φιλολογίας του Τμήματος Φιλολογίας του Ε.Κ.Π.Α. δύο ομιλίες του κυρίου ThomasKuhn-Treichel (Μεταδιδακτορικού ερευνητή στο Πανεπιστήμιο της Χαϊδελβέργης) με θέμα:
Loosening knees and heart: body and emotion from Homer to Plato,
Part One:The Homeric epics (22.04.2024,αίθουσα 209)
Loosening knees and heart: body and emotion from Homer to Plato,
Part Two:FromHesiodtoPlato (23.04.2024, αμφιθέατρο της Βιβλιοθήκης της Φιλοσοφικής Σχολής)
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Ο διευθυντής του Τομέα Κλασικής Φιλολογίας
Αμφιλόχιος Παπαθωμάς
Συντονιστές Βάιος Βαϊόπουλος (vaiosvaiop[at]phil.uoa[dot]gr)Αικατερίνη Κορολή (katkoroli@phil.uoa.gr)
Δρ Thomas Kuhn-Treichel
Loosening knees and heart: body and emotion from Homer to Plato
1. The Homeric epics
‘And at once, her knees and the dear heart were loosened’ (τῆςδ’ αὐτοῦ λύτογούνατακαὶ φίλον ἦτορ): the formula, with slight variations, occurs several times in the Homeric epics, especially when characters are shocked by negative or positive events, but is often overread because it appears so stereotyped. This talk argues that these and similar expressions of dissolving, far from being mere filling material, allow us deep insights into notions of the body and of emotion in the Homeric epics, which often differ from our concepts, but can be elucidated by modern neurobiology. An outlook on the Hebrew Bible will show that some of the peculiarities are paralleled in other contemporary cultures.
2. From Hesiod to Plato
After Homer, the idea of dissolving the body is most prominently associated with the effects of love and desire. After Hesiod, early Greek lyric (e.g., Archilochus, Sappho and Pindar) take up and develop the idea; one of their innovations is that they tend to use the expressions in a (more) metaphorical way, e.g. by speaking of melting. This tendency bespeaks a change in notions of the body, which is now more often seen in opposition to the mind or the soul. The development climaxes in Plato, who takes up the poetic image of dissolving in a new, philosophical sense when describing eros in the Phaedrus.