Το Κέντρον Ερεύνης της Ελληνικής και Λατινικής Γραμματείας της Ακαδημίας Αθηνών σας προσκαλεί στη διαδικτυακή διάλεξη της Yiqun Zhou (Στάνφορντ) με τίτλο «Nature, Emotion and Metamorphosis in Classical Chinese and Greco-Roman Myth and Poetry». Η διάλεξη θα πραγματοποιηθεί την Πέμπτη 19 Ιουνίου 2025 στις 18.00.
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This talk compares the roles of emotion in classical Chinese and Greco-Roman accounts about human transformation into animals, birds, plants and stones. Three sets of contrasts are observable in both textual traditions: philosophical versus mythological/literary views of the link between human metamorphosis and the natural world, positive versus negative emotions involved in the transformations, and male versus female in the gender of the protagonists who undergo both psychological and physical alteration. Treating Tao Yuanming’s Reading the Classic of Mountains and Seas and Ovid’s Metamorphoses as culminating works in their respective traditions, this inquiry examines whether/how the two poets attempt to reconcile the mythological/literary and philosophical perspectives on metamorphosis, to endow negative emotions with creative and exemplary power, and to associate that power with both male and female protagonists.
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Michael Konaris
Research Centre for Greek and Latin Literature
Academy of Athens
https://www.academyofathens.gr/personel/konaris-mihalis