Figuring Death in Classical Athens puts art and literature in conversation to explore how ancient Athenians grappled with the uncertainties of death. How did objects and texts generate thinking about what death is and might be like?
Figuring Death in Classical Athens puts art and literature in conversation to explore how ancient Athenians grappled with the uncertainties of death. How did objects and texts generate thinking about what death is and might be like?
Emily Clifford is Assistant Professor in Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Warwick. From 2020 to 2024 she was a Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford. She works on art and literature from the Graeco-Roman world with interest in the generative role played by cultural artefacts in processes of thought and imagination. Her publications in The Journal of Roman Studies (2023) and with Routledge, The Imagination of the Mind in Classical Athens (2024, as co-editor), focus respectively on imperial Rome and Classical Athens.
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* Conversation 1: Figuring Death in Classical Athens: Visual and Literary Explorations * 1: Death Comes as the End: Encountering Death in Plato's Phaedo * 2: They Do It with Mirrors?: Imagining Death with Painted Pots * Conversation 2: Deaths Old and New * 3: The Extraordinary Death of Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus * Conversation 3: Niobes * 4: Victory, Victory, Victory?: Encountering Death in the West Frieze of the Temple of Athena Nike * 5: Death and the Plague in Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War * Conversation 4: Figuring (Out) Death
* Conversation 1: Figuring Death in Classical Athens: Visual and Literary Explorations * 1: Death Comes as the End: Encountering Death in Plato's Phaedo * 2: They Do It with Mirrors?: Imagining Death with Painted Pots * Conversation 2: Deaths Old and New * 3: The Extraordinary Death of Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus * Conversation 3: Niobes * 4: Victory, Victory, Victory?: Encountering Death in the West Frieze of the Temple of Athena Nike * 5: Death and the Plague in Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War * Conversation 4: Figuring (Out) Death
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