2014
1st tele-meeting (21st October 2014) – “Was it wrong that the Athenians took money contributed by the allies for the purpose of funding the Delian League and used it instead to help pay for the Acropolis building program?”
On Tuesday 21st October 2014 at 15:00, a tele-meeting was held at the Center for the Study of Myth and Religion in Greek and Roman Antiquity of the Department of Philology, University of Patras, with members of the academic community of Ohio University. The topic of the tele-meeting was the Athenian Democracy and specifically whether the decision of the Athenians to use money from the allied fund for the construction of the Acropolis was the right one (“Was it wrong that the Athenians took money contributed by the allies for the purpose of funding the Delian League and used it instead to help pay for the Acropolis building program? How the Athenians paid for the Parthenon: Does it really
matter?“)
2nd tele-meeting (18th November 2014) – “For what reasons and in what ways is Socrates received in Aristophanes’ Clouds?”
On Tuesday 18th November 2014 at 16:00, a tele-meeting was held at the Center for the Study of Myth and Religion in Greek and Roman Antiquity of the Department of Philology, University of Patras, with members of the academic community of Ohio University. The topic of the tele-meeting was the Attic drama and specifically the reception of Socrates in the comedy Nefeles of Aristophanes (“For what reasons and in what ways is Socrates received in Aristophanes’ Clouds?”).
2015
1st tele-meeting (8th October 2015) – “How the Athenians paid for the Parthenon: Does it really matter?”
On Tuesday 8th October 2015 at 15:00, a tele-meeting was held at the Center for the Study of Myth and Religion in Greek and Roman Antiquity of the Department of Philology, University of Patras, with members of the academic community of Ohio University. The topic of the tele-meeting was the Athenian Democracy and specifically whether the decision of the Athenians to use the allied fund’s money for the construction of the Acropolis was the right one (“How the Athenians paid for the Parthenon: Does it really matter?”).
2nd tele-meeting (20th October 2015) – “Is Greek Tragedy Dead or Alive Today? The Paradigm of Medea.”
On Tuesday 20th October 2015 at 15:00, a tele-meeting was held at the Center for the Study of Myth and Religion in Greek and Roman Antiquity of the Department of Philology, University of Patras, which hosted the event and the “Jocasta Classical Reception Greece” in collaboration with members of the academic community of Ohio University. The topic of the tele-meeting was the reception of ancient Greek tragedy and specifically whether the tragedy continues to survive and have an impact on the present with particular emphasis on the reception of Euripides’ Medea (“Is Greek Tragedy Dead or Alive Today? The Paradigm of Medea”).
2016
1st tele-meeting (20th September 2016) – “Eros, with special attention to Aristophanes’ myth in the Symposium”
2nd tele-meeting (8th November 2016) – “CLASSICAL RECEPTION: Exploring the cinematic reception of Sophocles’ Oedipus king and Euripides’ Medea”
3rd tele-meeting (22nd November 2016) – “Classics and Liberal Arts”
2017
Medea Project Syllabus: An Ohio-Patras telediscussion series on re-reading and re-writing Medea in relation to the displaced other
1st tele-meeting (30th March 2017)
2nd tele-meeting (6th April 2017)