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The Ancient Wrath of Ares: Studies in Euripides’ Phoenician Women

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The APGRD is proud to support the online conference on Euripides’ Phoenician Women, convened by Edith Hall (Durham University), Vayos Liapis (Open University of Cyprus) and Rosie Wyles (Durham University). The conference was prompted by the summer 2024 production of Phoenissae by the Cyprus Theatre Organisation, directed by Magdalena Zira, timed to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.

Registration

To register, please email Dr Rosie Wyles for the Zoom link: mary.r.wyles@durham.ac.uk. 

Programme

Day One, Thursday 17 October

  • 09.00 (UK TIME): Welcome
  • 09.20: Magdalena Zira (Fantastiko Theatro): Euripides has already done it: what the Phoenician Women can teach us about theatre-making in the 21st century.
  • 10.10: Andrea Gianotti (Durham): The Solitude of Polynices: Language and Space in Euripides’ Phoenician Women.

10.40: Coffee break

  • 11.00: Vasia Kousoulini (Patras): The Toxic Positivity of the Maiden Chorus, Post-Memory, and the Transgenerational Trauma of Rape in Euripides’ Phoenician Women.
  • 11.30: Natasha Ferreira (Potchefstroom Campus South Africa): Victims of Injustice and Victims of Misfortune in Euripides’ Phoenician Women.
  • 12.00: Cassandre Martigny (Sorbonne): Political Issues in the Reception of Euripides’ Phoenician Women in the 16th century: Humanist Ideas versus Tyrannical Passions.

12.30: Lunch Break

  • 14.00: Nebojša Todorović (Harvard): Foreboding Phoenician Women: Paolo Magelli, Euripides, and the Breakup of Yugoslavia.
  • 14.30: Paul Eberwein (Princeton): Sacrificial Suicide: Choosing Death in Euripides’ Phoenician Women.

1500: Tea break

  • 15.30: Amelia Bensch-Schaus (Davidson College): Enslavement and the Literary Tradition in the Phoenician Women.
  • 16.00: Angharad Darden (Chicago): Solving the Riddle of the Sphinx: Iconography and Performance in Euripides’ Phoenician Women.

Day Two, Friday 18 October

  • 9.00: Oliver Baldwin (CEEC, University of Lisbon): Spectral Paternities and Filial (Im)pietas in Seneca's Phoenissae.
  • 9.30: Lottie Parkyn (London): Here Come the Girls: Female Choral Representation in Martin Crimp’s The Rest Will be Familiar to You from Cinema.
  • 10.00: Antonis Petrides (Cyprus): The Phoenissae of Nikos Charalambous (Cyprus Theatre Organisation, 2002).
  • 1030: Anactoria Clarke (Open University UK): Here comes Tiresias again: the Theban Prophet's Recurrence in Athenian Tragedy.

11.00: Roundtable
11.30: Close

Queries

Please contact Dr Rosie Wyles with any queries: mary.r.wyles@durham.ac.uk