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26. ARTS IN WORK: ABOUT THE INTERACTION OF SOUNDSCAPES AND TASKSCAPES IN ANTIQUITY

Panel Convenors

Meritxell Ferrer Martín (University  Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) [meritxell.ferrer@upf.edu]

Agnès García-Ventura (University Autónoma of Barcelona) [agnes.ventura@gmail.com]

Mireia López-Bertran (University of Valencia) [Mireia.Lopez@uv.es]

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Marion Meyer is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Vienna (since 2003). She previously taught in Munich, Hamburg, Florida and Bonn. Her main research interests are ancient Greek culture; visual communication; the creation, tradition, use, function and significance of images; phenomena of acculturation in the Eastern Mediterranean. Among her recent publications on these subjects is Athena, Goddess of Athens. Cult and Myth on the Acropolis until Classical times (2017, in German). She currently works on public and private commemoration of the dead in Athens.

 

Efimia D. Karakantza is Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at the University of Patras, Greece, where she has taught since 2007. She has published numerous articles in scholarly journals (mainly on Homer, Attic Drama, and the Political Discourse in Greek Antiquity). Her latest book: Who Am I?(Mis)identity and the Polis in Oedipus Tyrannus is due for publication in 2020 by Harvard University Press, Hellenic Studies Series no 86. Her book on Antigone is also due shortly. Her interest in necropolitics/necroviolence originates from Antigone, while her study on Electra focuses on her dissident and perilous lamentation..

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Alexandros Velaoras is a PhD candidate at the University of Patras, Greece. The title of his dissertation is “The Arrival of the Xenos in Euripidean Tragedy”. He currently works on the treatment of the dead in Euripides’ Suppliant Women. His research interests also include the reception of Ancient Greek literature in Anglophone (mainly British and Irish) drama and the reception of Ancient Greek culture in Greece during WWII.