Kruchió Benedek előadása

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Kruchió Benedek (Heidelberg)

All the world’s a stage: “performative allusion” in Heliodorus and beyond
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Az előadás absztraktja:
Somewhere in Lower Egypt, a local priest and an Ethiopian princess decide to re-enact a famous Homeric scene: Athena’s transformation of Odysseus into an old beggar. This episode from Heliodorus’s Aethiopica (fourth century C.E.) is an instance of what I propose to call ‘performative allusion’: Characters knowingly act out an intertext. Taking the Aethiopica as a starting point, my talk investigates the origins and comic potential of this phenomenon before discussing its significance in an imperial Greek context: I shall explore what discourses of imitation, education, and cultural identity such instances of literary roleplay evoke – and how readers belonging to the rhetorically educated élite (pepaideumenoi) might have grappled with them. Performative allusions, I conclude, offer us a fresh perspective on the way Greeks under Rome reflected critically on their distinctly postclassical culture and obsession with paideia.

Az előadás ideje és helye:
2023. május 8. (hétfő), 17:30 óra,
1088 Bp., Múzeum krt. 4/F, 212-es terem