Faculty of Classics - University of Cambridge

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Modern Greek Lecture Series 

These open lectures will be given at 5.00 pm on Thursdays in Room 2 of the Lecture Block, Sidgwick Avenue.

Lent Term 2013

A series of six lectures on the Cretan romance Erotokritos by Vitsentzos Kornaros (1553-1613/14), to mark the 300th anniversary of its first publication.

7 February
Dr Marina Rodosthenous (Nicosia): Erotokritos and the Cypriot Canzoniere

14 February
Dr Tina Lendari (Athens): Beauty and Desire in Erotokritos

21 February
Dr Tasoula Markomihelaki-Mintzas (Thessaloniki): The Poetics of Plants in Erotokritos and Panoria

28 February
Dr Tassos Kaplanis (University of Cyprus): From Text to Image: Erotokritos Illustrated (18th-20th centuries)

7 March
Dr Natalia Deliyannaki: Kornaros's Erofili

2 May
Dr Alfred Vincent (Sydney): Myth-History: Venice, Crete and Erotokritos

Michaelmas Term 2012

25 October

Professor Marc Lauxtermann (Exeter College, Oxford): “Guns and grammars, or the remarkable adventures of Romanos Nikiforou” 

8 November

Dr Anthony Hirst (The Durrell School of Corfu): “Gods refusing to die: from Plutarch to Pound, via Wilde, Cavafy, Palamas and Seferis” 

15 November

Professor Stephanos Pesmazoglou (Panteio University, Athens): “Aspects of the Greek Crisis and their articulation within the European context” 

22 November

Dr Polina Tambakaki (King’s College London): “Language and music, national identity and Orthodoxy: the ‘Destitute Dervish’ by Alexandros Papadiamantis” 

Contacts:

Professor David Holton (dwh11@cam.ac.uk), tel: 01223 335869

Mrs Nan Taplin (moderngreek@mml.cam.ac.uk), tel: 01223 335038

Website:  www.mml.cam.ac.uk/greek/