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PRIN 2022 (2022MYMSLK)

Female voices in a public context: authorial articulation and mimetic representation in ancient Greek literature

8th Open Conference of the Network for the Study of Archaic and Classical Greek Song
https://sites.rutgers.edu/greeksong/
Day 1
24 Giu 2025
9:00-9:15
Giulio Massimilla
Andrea Mazzucchi

Institutional Welcome

Andrea Mazzucchi, Director of the Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici Giulio Massimilla, Coordinator of the Section of “Scienze dell’Antichità”
9:15
Location: Aula Piovani, DSU, Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”

1st Session | Epic Heritage | Chair: Willy Cingano

9:15-9:55
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Claudio Sansone

Enslaved Women and their Speech in the Odyssey

9:55-10:35
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Anton Bierl

Love, not War or Sappho fr. 44 as a Lyric Epic in a Female Voice: Genre and Gender

10:35-11:15
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Louise Routier-Guillemot

Andromache Ἀοιδός: Retelling the Iliad in Her Own Voice

11:15-11:45

COFFEE BREAK

11:45
Location: Aula Piovani, DSU, Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”

2nd Session | Riddles and Symposia | Chair: Richard Martin

11:45-12:25
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Tullia Spinedi

Metaphors, Adages and Riddles: Features of Wise Women’s Expressions

12:25-13:05
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Margaret Foster

Making Sphinxes Speak: The Riddle of CEG 120

13:05-13:45
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Cecilia Nobili

Female Voices in the Symposium

13:45-15:00

LUNCH BREAK

15:00
Location: Aula Piovani, DSU, Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”

3rd Session | The ‘Other’ Lyric Women | Chair: Serena Cannavale

15:00-15:40
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Lucia Prauscello

Disiecta Corinniana

15:40-16:20
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Tiziano Presutti

A Fragmented Voice: Praxilla as an Author of Dithyrambs

16:20-17:00
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Vittoria Dozza

A female self-epitaph from Imperial age? Publiana, Μούσαισιν θελγομένη

17:00-17:30

COFFEE BREAK

17:30-19:00
Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi
André Lardinois
A Round Table: Sappho’s Voice | Chair: Timothy Power
Claude Calame

A Round Table: Sappho’s Voice | Chair: Timothy Power

19:30
P.za Dante, 53, 80135 Napoli NA

Conference Dinner for Speakers and Chairs

Day 2
25 Giu 2025
9:00
Aula Piovani, DSU, Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”

1st Session | Images of Sappho Across Time | Chair: Nadine Le Meur

9:00-9:40
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Gregory Nagy

Further Comments on Sappho’s Poetics of Eschatology for Her Songs

9:40-10:20
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Rita Saviano

The Renaissance Rediscovery of Sappho between Biographical Invention and Philological Studies

10:20-11:00
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Melissa Mueller

Mary Barnard’s Sappho

11:00-11:30

COFFEE BREAK

11:30
Aula Piovani, DSU, Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”

2nd Session | Female Voices in Aeschylus | Chair: Ian Rutherford

11:30-12:10
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Yasmine Granitto

A Queen’s Voice: The Rhetorical Characterization of Atossa between Male and Female Speech in Aeschylus’ Persians

12:10-12:50
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Jonathan Ready

Rooting for Clytemnestra

12:50-14:20

LUNCH BREAK

14:20
Aula Piovani, DSU, Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”

3rd Session | Female Voices in Euripides | Chair: Daniela Milo

14:20-15:00
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Federica Mancuso

Female and Male Voices at the Wedding of Peleus and Thetis: a Comparison between Pind. Nem. 5.22-42 and Eur. IA 1036-1079

15:00-15:40
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Francesca Chenet

Female Language in Euripides’ Suppliant Women: Evadne’s Heroic Voice

15:40-16:00

COFFEE BREAK

16:00
Aula Piovani, DSU, Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”

4th Session | Female Voices in Comedy | Chair: Ewen Bowie

16:00-16:40
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Stefano Fanucchi

Female Choral Voice and Spartan Song Tradition in Aristophanes’ Lysistrata

16:40-17:20
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Naomi Weiss

Playing Pots and Playing Women in Aristophanes’ Assemblywomen

17:30-19:00

Core Group Meeting

Day 3
26 Giu 2025
9:00
Aula Piovani, DSU, Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”

1st Session | Transformations of Female Voices in The Early Hellenistic Period | Chair: Giulio Massimilla

9:00-9:40
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Carolina Ravanelli

The Poetic Self and Female Solidarity in Erinna’s The Distaff: Notes on a Linguistic and Political Act through Modern Feminist Theories

9:40-10:20
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Flora P. Manakidou

Female Voices in Callimachus’ Hymns 5 and 6: Challenges for Men or for Women?

10:20-11:00
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Helena Teleżyńska

“Authentic Female Voice”: Hellenistic Women Poets and the Authorial Voice in Epigram

11:00-11:30

COFFEE BREAK

11:30
Aula Piovani, DSU, Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”

2nd Session | The Hellenistic Period and Beyond | Chair: Lucia Athanassaki

11:30-12:10
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Chiara Pesaresi

Multiple Roles and Functions of the Female Voice in Anyte’s Funerary Epigrams for Maidens

12:10-12:50
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Vittoria Vairo

Female Voices in the Hellenistic Erotic Epigram: Language, Motifs and Gender-Roles

12:50-13:30
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Mary Gilbert

Not Your Xanthippe: Ventriloquizing Gender Based Epistemic Domination in Alciphron’s Letters

13:30-14:40

LUNCH BREAK

14:40-16:10
Ian Rutherford
Xavier Riu
Mario Regali
Cristina Pepe
Serena Cannavale
Luigi Battezzato

Final Round Table | Chair: Giambattista D’Alessio

17:00-19:00
Piano terra, sala IV, Sculture del Palazzo “Orazi e Curiazi”

Performance Le Troiane at Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (TBC)