Through the Animal Prism
Seeing Ancient Greece, Rome, and the Ancient Mediterranean through their Animals, Theriomorphic Hybrids and Monsters.
Organized by Kenneth Kitchell, Guendalina Taietti, Katia Margariti
Join us on November 2-3, 2024 and January 11-12, 2025 for Through the Animal Prism
Details for the Conference are as follows:
Conference program
Saturday November 2, 2024
Morning Session (9:00 – 12:00 UK time)
Access using Zoom Meeting ID: 985 5003 9903 / Passcode: TAP!2NovMo
9:00-9:30 Laura Harris (Macquarie University) The Use of Implements in Ploughing in the New Kingdom Period, Egypt.
9:30-10:00 Stella Nikolova (National Archaeological Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) Multicultural culinary practices? A case study on the preliminary results of the faunal analysis from the site of Emporium Pistiros, Bulgaria (5th – 3rd century BCE).
10:00-10:30 Sian Lewis (University of St. Andrews) The sturgeon, the marmot, the jerboa and the gazelle: in search of animal regionality.
10:30-11:00 Ivan Vranić, Selena Vitezović, Nemanja Marković (Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade) Birds at the Late Iron Age „Hellenised“ site of Kale-Krševica (southern Serbia).
11:00-11:30 Athanasios Sideris (Charles University / Masaryk University) The puzzling iconography of felines in the Greek art.
11:30-12:00 María Flores Rivas (Complutense University of Madrid) One of the animals expressing the divine identity of Dionysos? The bear and the Homeric Hymn to Dionysos (VII).
LUNCH BREAK: 12:00 – 13:00
Afternoon Session (13:00 – 16:30 UK time)
Access via Zoom Meeting ID: 969 6645 3456 / Passcode: TAP!2NovAf
13:00-13:30 Hendrik Müller (Hochschule Fresenius)
Medical Skills of Animals in Aelian.
13:30-14:00 Franklin Sargunaraj (Bar-Ilan University) De Natura Animalium: Discovering Ancient Zoological Thought by Comparative Analysis of Aelian’s Descriptions with Modern Scientific Findings.
14:00-14:30 Eleni Hall Manolaraki (University of South Florida) Zoopharmacognosy in Pliny’s Natural History.
14:30-15:00 Dan Mills (Georgia Institute of Technology)
The Physiognomy of the Ass in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses.
15:00-15:30 Joel Allen (The City University of New York)
Thinking Through Skin in the Severan Era: The Fungibility of Animal Hides and Hybrids in Pseudo-Oppian’s Cynegetica.
15:30-16:00 Marina Cavichiolo Grochocki (Arizona State University)
Vandalizing Domestication: Luxorius’ serving animals.
16:00-16:30 Guendalina D.M. Taietti (University of Liverpool), Giannis Solos (Independent scholar) Ancient Greek and Chinese Hippiatrica.
Sunday November 3, 2024
Morning Session (9:00 – 12:00 UK time)
Access via Zoom Meeting ID: 979 8159 7376 / Passcode: TAP!3NovMo
9:00-9:30 Alka Starac (Archaeological Museum of Istria)
A house full of wild, dangerous, or fantastic animals. Depictions of animals from the houses of the Principate in Roman Istria.
9:30-10:00 Linda Dobosi (Eötvös Loránd University) Animal Footprints on Roof Tiles from Roman Pannonia.
10:00-10:30 Thorsten Fögen (Northeast Normal University / Durham University)
Two ‘Epigrammatic’ Dogs from Roman Antiquity.
10:30-11:00 Francesco Tanganelli (Independent scholar)
Perseus’ dog? Some considerations about the relationship between the hunting dog and the ancient Greek hero.
11:00-11:30 Arianne Novella Martínez (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia)
The Dogs Howling in the Torchlight: Chthonic Images of Hekate.
11:30-12:00 Marcela Alejandra Ristorto, Silvia Susana Reyes (Universidad Nacional de Rosario - Centro de Estudios Helénicos y de Tradición Clásica)
The Role of Dogs in the Erotic Magic of the Greek Magical Papyri.
LUNCH BREAK: 12:00 – 13:00
Afternoon Session (13:00 – 16:30 UK time)
Access via Zoom
Meeting ID: 956 8459 3936 / Passcode: TAP!3NovAf
13:00-13:30 Maja Miziur-Moździoch (Independent scholar) Who is Ptolemy II Philadelphos? Seeing the ruler through his animals. 13:30-14:00 Filippo Marani Tassinari (Kunst-Universität Graz)
The elephantarch dynasty: symbology and deployment of elephants in the Seleucid Empire and eastern Hellenistic world.
14:00-14:30 Kenneth Kitchell (University of Massachusetts Amherst, Emeritus)
The Hedgehog of the Sea.
14:30-15:00 Antonio Ruiz Sánchez (Universitat de València), Sebastián Uribe Rodríguez (Instituto de Hidrología, Meteorología y Estudios Ambientales, Colombia)
Mean-whale: Mythical and Biological Perspectives towards Cetaceans in Antiquity.
15:00-15:30 Michael Anthony Fowler (East Tennessee State University)
Greek Human Sacrifice through the Animal Prism: Archaeological Insight on the Human-Animal Analog and the Logic of Substitution.
15:30-16:00 Bridget Thomas (Truman State University)
Seeing Ancient Greek Sacrifice Through the Animal Experience.
16:00-16:30 Jenna R. Rice (University of Colorado)
Dromedaries, Bactrians, and Animal Specialization in the Army of Alexander the Great.January conference session
Saturday January 11, 2025
Morning Session (9:00 – 12:00 UK time)
Access via Zoom Meeting ID: 957 0191 7960 / Passcode: TAP!11JanM
9:00-9:30 Jordon Houston (University of Auckland)
Indelible Companions: Scythian Tattooed Horses and Hooved Griffins.
9:30-10:00 Vasiliki Stamatopoulou (Ephorate of Antiquities of Thessaloniki / Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Horse jewelry. The case of the gilt harness from Katerini.
10:00-10:30 Rosanagh Mack (University of Reading)
The Animals of Ancient Thessaly Seen Through Its Coinage.
10:30-11:00 David Serrano Ordozgoiti (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Bestiae Potestatis: New Perspectives on the “Animal Series” in Gallienus Numismatics.
11:00-11:30 Juan Piquero Rodríguez (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia)
Mules and ritual theriomorphism in Mycenaean Texts and Beyond: an attempt of interpretation.
11:30-12:00 Sebastián Francisco Maydana (Universidad de Buenos Aires) Hybrids, Animals and Theriomorphs in Egyptian Iconography from the 4th Millennium BCE.
LUNCH BREAK: 12:00 – 13:00
Afternoon Session (13:00 – 16:30 UK time)
Access via Zoom
Meeting ID: 966 2624 0602 / Passcode: TAP!11JanA
13:00-13:30 Carlo Canna (Independent Scholar)
The Neades of the Island of Samos (Greece, Eastern Aegean): an analysis of speculative reconstruction on the fantastic monsters described in a Greek legend of the fifth century B.C.E.
13:30-14:00 Katia Margariti (Zoa: Animals in Greco-Roman Antiquity)
The watchful sentinels: funerary Sphinxes in Archaic and Classical Athens.
14:00-14:30 Annetta Alexandridis (Cornell University)
Breeding the Centaur: The West Pediment of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia in its Connection to the Land.
14:30-15:00 Christina Aamodt (Independent scholar) The Symbolism of the Snake in the Mycenaean Culture.
15:00-15:30 Nicholas J. Molinari (Salve Regina University)
Δράκων ἑλικτός: A New Iconographic Form of Acheloios as a Bearded and Horned Serpent, Its Origin in Milesian Orphism, and Its Significance during the Revolt Against Lysimachos.
15:30-16:00 András Patay-Horváth (Eötvös Loránd University)
Birds, heroes and toponyms.
16:00-16:30 Cristiana Zaccagnino, Jan-Mathieu Carbon (Queen’s University) Not Just Athena’s Bird: The Many Faces of the Owl.
Sunday, January 12, 2025
Morning Session (9:00 – 12:00 UK time)
Access via Zoom
Meeting ID: 956 5053 0306 / Passcode: TAP!12JanM
9:00-9:30 Babette Puetz (Victoria University of Wellington) From Guarddog to Hellhound: Animal invective in Aristophanes’ comedies.
9:30-10:00 Rui Carlos Fonseca (University of Madeira / University of Lisbon)
Seeing the Odyssey and Odysseus’ return through the animal prism.
10:00-10:30 Andriana Domouzi (University of Athens)
The speaking horse Hippo: Euripides’ posthuman dea ex machina in the fragmentary tragedy Melanippe Wise.
10:30-11:00 Angelina Gerus (University of Warsaw)
If Vice Were a Beast: Animal Metaphors in Plutarch’s Ethical Programme.
11:00-11:30 Chiara Militello (Università degli Studi di Catania) Animal Cognition in “Simplicius”’s Commentary on Aristotle’s On the Soul.
11:30-12:00 Aleksandra Klęczar (Jagiellonian University) The king, the donkey, the Dead river: in search of a motive.
Afternoon Session (13:00 – 17:00 UK time)
Access to Zoom
Meeting ID: 933 7407 5394 / Passcode: TAP!12JanA
13:00-13:30 Alessandra Scaccuto (Independent scholar)
Representing Animal Sexuality in Greek and Roman Literature.
13:30-14:00 Enrico Piergiacomi (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology)
An Epicurean Historia animalium? Theoretical Framework and Selected Case Studies.
14:00-14:30 Seth Levin (Bryn Mawr College)
Autonomy in Action: Gryllus’ Cynic Supervision of His Body.
14:30-15:00 Lora Holland Goldthwaite (University of North Carolina Asheville)
When is a Deer Just a Deer? Two Case Studies of Diana as a Theriomorphic Deity.
15:00-15:30 Gordana Jeremić, Selena Vitezović (Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade) Deer in the arts and crafts in the Late Antique provinces of Dacia Ripensis and Dacia Mediterranea.
15:30-16:00 Stamatis Fritzilas (Academy of Athens)
Monkey Riding a Horse on Greek Art.
16:00-16:30 Bernice R. Jones (Independent Scholar) The Impact of the Egyptian Baboon God Thoth on the Near East and the Aegean.
16:30-17:00 Sherry Mossafer Rind (Poet) From ancient science to modern poetry.