Colloquium

“Ex Arches: Looking back at Myths of Origin”

The Ohio State University 14-15 September 2018 386B University Hall


Friday, September 14th (Saturday, September 15th, continued)

Welcome 3:30pm Session III 10:30-12:30pm
Foundations of Cities and Cults
Session I 3:35-5:40pm
Hesiod’s Theogony Sarah I. Johnston (OSU)
Delphic Apollo and the Dawn of the Heroic Age
Opening Talk: 3:35-4:30pm
Jenny S. Clay (University of Virginia, emerita) Ana Isabel Jiménez San Cristóbal
(Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Hesiod’s Typhoeus or Cosmic Regression
The Origin of Dionysus in Teos and the Wine
Warren Huard (OSU) Festivals

Herakles and the Order of Zeus in
Carolina López-Ruiz (OSU)
Hesiod’s Theogony
Gargoris and Habis: A Foundation Story
Marcus Ziemann (OSU) of Pheonician-Tartessic Origins

The Politics of Beginnings:
(12:30-2:00 pm. Cold lunch provided for speakers.)
Hesiod's Theogony in the Context of the
Political/Ideological Use of Enuma elish by
Sargon II and Sennacherib Session IV 2:00-4:15pm

General Discussion 5:40-6:00pm Cosmogonies in Presocratic Philosophy,
Comedy and Hermeticism
(Dinner at University Hall to follow, for speakers)
Gabriela Cursaru and Pierre Bonnechère
(Université de Montréal)
Saturday, September 15 Ἀρχή and δῖνος: Vortices as Cosmogonical
Powers and Cosmic Regulators. Study Case:
(Coffee and pastries available at 8:30 am) The Whirling Lightning Bolt of Zeus


Session II 9:00-10:20 am (Coffee Break 2:40-2:55pm)
Orphica et Magica
Marco Antonio Santamaría
Radcliffe G. Edmonds III (Bryn Mawr College) (Universidad de Salamanca)
First-Born of Night or Oozing from the Slime? Theogonies in Greek Comedy
Deviant Origins in Orphic Cosmogonies
Fritz Graf (OSU)
Christopher Faraone The Cosmogony in the Hermetic Poimandres
(The University of Chicago)
Cosmogonies as Curative Incantations General Discussion 4:15-5:00pm

(via Skype)
(Refreshments available during discussion)
(Coffee Break 10:20-10:30am) (Dinner for speakers: place & time TBA)

*THANK YOU to the Department of Classics, the Department of African American and African Studies,
the Fritz Graf Fund for Ancient Mediterranean Religions, GISRAM, and the Discovery Theme Project
Homer to the Qur’an.