FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND CULTURAL STUDIES

UNIVERSITY OF PELOPONNESE

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE MARATHON BATTLE TO CIVILIZATION:                

HISTORIC, ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND LITERARY EVIDENCE

7-10 OCTOBER 2010, KALAMATA, GREECE

Programme

THURSDAY, 7 October

09.00-09.45     Registration

10.00-11.30     Opening of the Conference

                       Addresses

•  His Reverence, the Bishop of Messenia Mr Chrysostomos

•  Prof. Georgia Xanthaki-Karamanou (President of the Faculty of Philology, University of Peloponnese)

•  Prof. Alexis Savvides (President of the Faculty of History, Archaeology and Cultural Management, University of Peloponnese)

•  Prof. Chris Carey (University College London, UK)

•  Officials

Communication – Exhibition of documents from the Private Library of George Dolianites: “The Marathon Battle – A Model of Heroism, A Steady Source of Inspiration”.

11.30-12.30           Peter Rhodes (Emeritus Professor, Department of Classics and Ancient  History, Durham University), “The  battle of Marathon and modern scholarship”

MORNING SESSION: HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY

                         Chair: Professor Georgia Xanthaki-Karamanou

12.30-13.00      Vassileios Konstantinopoulos ” (Faculty of History, Archaeology and Cultural Management, University of Peloponnese), “The Persian Wars and the political conflicts in Athens

13.00-13.30       Andreas Markantonatos (Faculty of Philology, University of Peloponnese), “The silence of Thucydides: The battle of Marathon and the Athenian imperial pride”

13.30-14.00       Ioannis Kazazis (Faculty of Philology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), “Herodotean folk narratives and the idea of justice in his Histories”

14.00- 15.00     Lunch

AFTERNOON SESSION: HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY

                                  Chair: Assoc. Prof. Lucia Athanassaki

17.00- 17.30      Peter Krentz (Davidson College, North Carolina, USA), “Marathon and the development of the exclusive hoplite phalanx”

17.30-18.00       Chris Pelling (Faculty of Classics, Christ Church, University of Oxford, UK), “Herodotus’ Marathon: the birth of a legend”

18.00-18.30       Georgia Xanthaki-Karamanou (Faculty of Philology, University of Peloponnese), “The Marathon battle as a topos of the  Athenian political prestige in classical times”

18.30-19.00       Andrej Petrovic (Department of Classics and Ancient History, Durham University, UK), “Marathon epigrams”

19.00-19.30       Chirstopher Tuplin (School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, UK), "Intolerable clothes and a terrifying name: the characteristics of an Achaemenid invasion force”

21.00                  Dinner               

FRIDAY, 8 October                   

MORNING SESSION:

10.00-13.30     VISIT TO THE ANCIENT MESSINI

                        Presentation by Prof. Petros Themelis

13.30-14.30     Lunch

AFTERNOON SESSION:    A. ART AND CULTURE

                        Chair: Professor Chris Carey

17.00-17.30     Karim Arafat (Department of Classics, King’s College London, UK), “The battle of Marathon in art”

17.30-18.00     Ewen Bowie (Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, UK), “Marathon in the Greek culture of the 2^nd century AD: from cliché to cachet”

18.00-18.30     Ariadne Gartziou-Tatti (Faculty of Philology, University of Ioannina), “Gods, heroes and the battle of Marathon” 

18.30-19.00     Antonis Mastrapas (Faculty of History, Archaeology and Cultural Management, University of Peloponnese), “The Marathon battle and the cult of Pan in Athens: The political dimension of a legend through the written reports and the archaeological material”

B. COMEDY AND POETRY                      

Chair: Assist. Prof. Andreas Markantonatos

19.00-19.30     Chris Carey (Department of Greek and Latin, University College, London, UK), “Marathon and the construction of the comic past”

19.30-20.00      Ioanna Karamanou (Faculty of Theatre Studies, University of Peloponnese), “As threatening as the Persians: Euripides in Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae”

20.00-20.30       Efi Papadodima (Faculty of History, Archaeology and Cultural Management, University of Peloponnese), “The Marathon battle in 5^th century poetry and drama”

20.00-21.00       Visit to the Town of Kalamata (Presentation by the Assist. Prof. Ioanna Spiliopoulou)

21.00                  Dinner

SATURDAY, 9 October

MORNING SESSION: GREEK ORATORY

                        Chair: Professor Mike Edwards

9.30-10.00         Rosalind Thomas (Balliol College, University of Oxford, UK), “Miltiades and Athenian expansionism in Herodotus and the later tradition”

10.00-10.30       Athanasios Efstathiou (Faculty of History, Ionion University), “The battle of Marathon in political and forensic speeches”

10.30-11.00       Eleni Volonaki (Faculty of History, Archaeology and Cultural Management, University of Peloponnese), “The battle of Marathon in oratorical funeral speeches”

11.00-11.30       Christos Kremmydas (Department of Classics, Royal Holloway London, University of London, UK), “Alexander the Great, Athens and the rhetoric of the Persian Wars”

11.30-13.00       Lunch

AFTERNOON:  EXCURSION TO PYLOS and KYPARISSIA (dinner)

SUNDAY, 10 October

MORNING SESSION: RECEPTION IN ANTIQUITY AND MODERN TIMES

                        Chair: Professor Evridiki Antzoulatou-Retsila

9.30-10.30        Peter Funke - Michael Jung (University of Muenster, Germany), “Marathon and the construction of the Persian Wars in antiquity and modern times”

10.30-11.00      Lorna Hardwick (Department of Classics, Open University London, UK), “Moving targets, modern contests: Marathon and cultural memory”

11.00-11.30      Vassileios Filias (Panteion University, Greece), “The significance of the Marathon battle to the modern world”

11.30-12.30     Closure of the Conference

12.30-14.00: VISIT TO THE BENAKEION ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF KALAMATA