Plato and the Power of Images

Classics Colloquium Tea and Conference Introduction

Radcliffe G. Edmonds III, Bryn Mawr College

Quita Woodward Room, Thomas Hall; Carpenter 21

4:00 PM - 4:45 PM

The Image of Achilles in Plato's Symposium

Elizabeth Belfiore, University of Minnesota

Carpenter B21

4:45 PM - 5:30 PM

The Power of a Beautiful Image in Plato and the Poets: Infatuation or Transcendence?

Francisco Gonzalez, University of Ottawa

Carpenter B21

5:30 PM - 6:15 PM

Two images of the Soul in the Republic: The three-headed Beast (Book IX) and the Sea Creature Glaucus (Book X)

Catherine Collobert, University of Ottawa

Thomas 224

9:30 AM - 10:15 AM

Perspectivism in Plato’s Views of the Gods

Gerd Van Riel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Thomas 224

10:15 AM - 11:00 AM

Platonic images: where the truth lies

Elsa Grasso, Université de Nice

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Plato on images that make one laugh

Pierre Destrée, Université Catholique de Louvain

Thomas 224

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

Viewing the invisible: Plato’s use of pictorial arts

Zacharoula Petraki, University of Crete

Thomas 224

2:45 PM - 3:30 PM

The Images of Knowing Oneself

Christopher Moore, Pennsylvania State University

Thomas 224

4:00 PM - 4:45 PM

The serpent within: the afterlife of a Platonic image

Richard Hunter, University of Cambridge

Thomas 224

4:45 PM - 5:30 PM