Sappho to Elytis and Beyond: Archaic Lyric Across Byzantine, Modern Greek, and Wider European Poetic Worlds
A symposium presented in collaboration with the Rutgers Program in Modern Greek Studies, the Rutgers Department of Classics, and the Network for the Study of Archaic and Classical Greek Song
Friday, October 2 (9:15 AM-6:00 PM) and Saturday, October 3, 2026 (9:30 AM-1 PM)
Rutgers University—New Brunswick, College Avenue Campus
Alexander Library, Teleconference Hall (Friday)
Center for Cultural Analysis, AB West Room 6107 (Saturday)
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Lucia Athanassaki (University of Crete)
The sizzle and buzz of Bacchylides’ dithyramb for the Athenians (c. 19): Poetic self-references in performance – ancient and modern
Emmanuel Bourbouhakis (Princeton University)
Metre without Music? Pindar’s Lyric Legacy in Byzantium
Ewen Bowie (University of Oxford, Corpus Christi College)
Reading Alcaeus in the Roman Empire: Horace to Himerius and beyond
Kristina Chew (Rutgers University-New Brunswick)
Sappho, Undocumented: Greek poetry and myth in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée
Andrew Ford (Princeton University)
Anxieties of Influence in Seferis, Eliot and Aeschylus
Artemis Leontis (University of Michigan)
The Delphic Festivals in the Modern Greek Repertoire of Ancient Choral Lyric
Gregory Nagy (Harvard University)
On the poetics of καημός
Katerina Stergiopoulou (University of Edinburgh)
Archaic Lyric in the Work of Phoebe Giannisi
George Syrimis (Yale University)
Marching to the Timpani: The Reception of Federico García Lorca in Greek Music
Naomi Weiss (Director, Center for Hellenic Studies; Harvard University)
Archilochean poiesis from Guy Davenport to Cy Twombly