Direttore: Maurizio Bettini »
  
Università di Siena
Centro interdipartimentale di studi Università di Siena
       
     

    Sacred Images
    in the Ancient Mediterranean

    International Conference

    Siena, 14-15-16 June 2006
    Auditorium Graduate College Santa Chiara via Valdimontone, 1

    14 June

    • Chairman: Maurizio Bettini
      12,00-13,00
      - F. Graf (OSU) – The Oracle and the Image. Once Again on Some Clarian Oracles.
      - G. Chiarini (UdS) – Further considerations about the so-called “E” of Delphi.
      13,00-14,00
      - T. McNiven (OSU) – Interactions with the Sacred Images on Athenian Pottery.
      - I. Sforza (U. di Pisa) – Argos panoptes and the All-seeing Greek Gods.
    • Chairman: Michael Swartz
      15,00-16,00
      - S. Knippschild (TUD) – Images as Victims of War: the Abduction and Destruction of Cult Images in the Ancient Near East.
      - K. Rask (OSU) – Near Eastern Influences on the Dioskouroi: Meslamtaea, Lugalirra, and Twin Door Gods.
      17,00-18,00
      - S. Hautala (UdS) – Beard of Jupiter, Hand of Mars, Hair of Venus: Sacred Images in Vegetative World.
      - B. Buchholz (OSU) – Misunderstanding the Gods: Anthropomorphism and Ignorance.

    15 June

    • Chairman: Fritz Graf
      12,00-13,00
      - M. Fullerton (OSU) – Roma and Augustus on Some Early Imperial Cameos.
      - M. Bettini (UdS) – Images of Death: Doubling in the Roman Aristocratic Funeral.
      13,00-14,00
      - M. Swartz (OSU) – Ritual Objects as Sacred Images in the Art of the Ancient Synagogue.
      - G. De Sanctis (UdS) – Sacer lapis. About Terminus and the Boundaries Stones in Roman Myth.
    • Chairman: Timothy McNiven
      15,00 – 16,00
      - G. Pucci (UdS) – Of Nymphs and Graces.
      - L. Kilker (OSU) – What Does it Mean to Be a Votive? An Exploration of Reclining Figurines from Corinth and Morgantina.
      17,00-18,00
      - N. Dobyns (OSU) – Inside the Brazen Gods. Artistic Representations, Popular Belief, and the Rhetoric of Possession in Late Antiquity.
      - T. Braccini (UdS) – The Holy Tile: when an Acheiropoieton duplicates itself.

    16 June

    • Chairman: Giuseppe Pucci
      12,00-13,30
      - S. Ronchey (UdS) - Death-in-Life in the Eyes: for a Psychology of the Byzantine Icon.
      - A. Haluszka (OSU) - Inside-Out. A Study of the Inner Statue.
      - S. Iles Johnston (OSU) - Who Put the Soul in the Statue? A Closer Look at the Telestic Art.

    UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI SIENA
    SCUOLA DI DOTTORATO IN STORIA, ARCHEOLOGIA ED ANTROPOLOGIA DEL MONDO ANTICO
    SEZIONE DI ANTROPOLOGIA DEL MONDO ANTICO.
    SCUOLA SUPERIORE DI STUDI UMANISTICI - SCUOLA DI DOTTORATO IN ANTROPOLOGIA, STORIA E TEORIA DELLA CULTURA

    Technische Universität Dresden
    Sonderforschungsbereich 537

    Focus Program in Ancient Mediterranean Cultures at the College of Arts and Sciences
    The Ohio State University

    Revue de l'Histoire des Religions
    http://rhr.revues.org