Generously supported by the Faculty of Classics Craven Committee, the Jowett Copyright Trust, and University College, Oxford
Programme
9.00-9.30 Arrival and refreshments - 10 Merton Street Lecture Room, University College
9.30-11: Session 1
Theodore Hill (University of Edinburgh): Divine Agency and Human Responsibility in Early Greek Thought
Matilde Berti (Durham University): Patients as Morally Responsible Agents in Ancient Medicine
11-11.30: Tea/coffee
11.30-1: Session 2
Sandra Erker (Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg): Dramatic Discourse on Moral Responsibility in Euripides’ Orestes and its Interaction with Aeschylus, the Sophists, and Aristotle
Vayos Liapis (Open University of Cyprus): Before Moral Responsibility: Miasma and Social Homeostasis
1-2: Lunch (Butler Room)
2-3.30: Session 3
Michelle Musolino (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München): The Ship of State: Navigating Moral Responsibility in Attic Tragedy
Amelia Moro (University of Strasbourg): Moral Responsibility in Athenian Rhetoric: Altruism and Pragmatism in Andocides’ On the Peace
3.30-4: Tea/coffee
4-5.30: Session 4
Lamprini Chondrou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens): Moral Responsibility in Herodotus and Thucydides
Radosław Miśkiewicz (University of Warsaw): Legal Change and Moral Responsibility in the Discourse of Fifth Century BCE Athens
5.30-6.30: Drinks in the Fellows’ Garden
7pm: Dinner in College
Attendance, including lunch and refreshments, is free – but for catering purposes please register at the following link, stating any dietary preferences:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/moral-responsibility-in-early-greek-thought-tickets-1338272662559?aff=oddtdtcreator
Please note there is a separate ticket for dinner, charged at £20.
For further information, please contact the organizers:
Bill Allan (william.allan@univ.ox.ac.uk)
Julia Pfefferkorn (pfefferkorn@uni-trier.de)
