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2024 Fountain Symposium

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Ninth Annual Celia M. Fountain Symposium

Greek Myths from Egyptian Sands: Discovering the New Euripides

Saturday, September 14, 2024
11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. MDT (GMT/UTC-6)
Cofrin Auditorium (Atlas 100, CU ��«��Ƶ) and via live-stream

A link to the video recording of the Symposium is available here

A complete program is available here: Fountain Symposium - 2024 Program

In November of 2022, a team of archaeologists led by Basem Gehad of the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities recovered several papyri from a simple grave in the cemetery of Philadelphia in the Fayoum. The best preserved includes nearly 100 lines from two otherwise lost plays by the Athenian playwright Euripides - the most significant discovery of new tragedy in nearly 60 years. CƯ's Yvona Trnka-Amrhein, the team's papyrological expert, invited her colleague John Gibert, a specialist in Greek drama, to join her and Dr. Gehad in preparing the first edition of the text: here, for the first time in nearly 2,000 years readers will encounter gripping scenes from two plays based on little-known but intriguing incidents from the mythical careers of Dionysus' aunt Ino/Leucothea, the Cretan king Minos, and the seer Polyidus. The Ninth Annual Celia M. Fountain Symposium will introduce the discovery and explore its contexts in archaeology, literature, mythology, and vase painting.

The papyrus was officially published on August 27, 2024, in the Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (vol. 230, pp. 1–40). It will take a while for it to reach libraries, but you may view the table of contents here.
Rob Cioffi discusses the papyrus in the London Review of Books here: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n18/robert-cioffi/euripides-unbound
Colorado Public Radio’s Anthony Cotton (“Colorado Matters”) discusses the papyrus and the upcoming Symposium with Yvona and John here: https://www.cpr.org/show-segment/digging-into-the-greek-life-cu-scholars-interpret-rare-euripidian-find/
Brown University Professor Johanna Hanink discuses the papyrus with John and Yvona on her podcast Λέσχη here: https://leschepodcast.buzzsprout.com/
In June, 2024, Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies hosted a two-day conference devoted to further exploration of the newly discovered text by specialists. The proceedings will eventually be published in an online, open-access book, but in the meantime, there is information about the conference here and here, including a repertory of conjectures and several pre-prints (or choose Preprints from the Publications pull-down menu on the main page).
This discovery was recently featured in CU's Arts & Sciences Magazine: Uncovered Euripides fragments are ‘kind of a big deal’
On September 4, 2024, the Times Literary Supplement (London) published “Greek tragedies from an Egyptian tomb: Discovering a new Euripides papyrus,” by Bill Allan.

The Fountain Symposium is sponsored by the generous support of Celia M. Fountain, the Bruce D. Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization, and the Classics Department.
It is free and open to the public

classics@colorado.edu | www.colorado.edu/classics | 303-492-6257

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Fountain Lecture: "Eurydice, Mother of Philip II of Macedon, and the Power of Memory"

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The Celia M. Fountain 2022 Webinar

Eurydice, Mother of Philip II of Macedon, and the Power of Memory

Professor Elizabeth Carney

Thursday, September 15, 7:00 p.m. on Zoom
Free and Open to Public
REGISTER HERE

ABSTRACT

Study of ancient Argead Macedonia used to focus nearly exclusively on Philip II and his son Alexander III the Great. Daily life, social and religious practices, and material culture got little attention, especially in connection to the political world. Royal women appeared not as participants in monarchy but as its colorful window dressing. Heavy dependence on literary sources generated narrow readings of the Macedonian past. What little that was known about Eurydice, mother of Philip II and grandmother of Alexander the Great, depended on works created and perpetuated by the tiny literate class of the ancient world, works largely written about five centuries after Eurydice’s death, providing Roman, only indirectly Macedonian, memory of Eurydice.

This literary tradition portrays Eurydice as a powerful woman, who as a royal mother, led a court faction and engaged in Macedonian power politics, but It permits her no middle ground; she is either a heroic mother or a murderous one who puts her lover’s interests in place of those of her sons. A Plutarchian essay, however, does preserve an inscription, once associated with a dedication, that demonstrates that Eurydice worked to shape public memory about herself.

That is all we knew about Eurydice until, at Vergina (a modern village, almost certainly the site of ancient Aegae, the older Macedonian capital and burial place of the Argead kings), the first archaeological information about Eurydice emerged in 1982 when Chrysoula Saatsoglou-Paliadeli and her team began to excavate an area now known as the sanctuary of Eucleia. They found dedications by Eurydice to the goddess Eucleia and, nearby, other evidence of Eurydice’s presence in Aegae. Gradually, they uncovered indications of the enduring veneration of Eurydice’s dedications and of the sanctuary, veneration that continued into the first century CE, nearly four centuries after it began. This archaeological evidence derives, primarily, from the actions of Eurydice herself and from the practices (architectural, religious) of centuries of Macedonians. These two bodies of evidence about Eurydice—literary and archaeological-- offer different pictures of Eurydice’s past and that of Macedonia. This physical evidence indicates how memory of Eurydice, her family, the Argead dynasty, and the Macedonian kingdom, evolved: It gives us a more Macedonian Eurydice. Over time, however, the sanctuary acquired other layers of meaning; it encompassed memory and veneration of a lost and grander past and of the family that helped to bring about that grandness and yet it also linked that past grandeur to a less grand present. Relatively soon after Eurydice’s death, the sanctuary may have become a place for the secret burial of the very last Argeads. The structures of the sanctuary doubled in size under the new Antigonid dynasty, in a way that highlighted Eurydice’s dedication. After the Roman conquest the sanctuary endured as other cults at Vergina faded away. When whatever event in the early first century CE caused the city to be abandoned, those still possessing some wealth and power, as well as nostalgia, organized an elaborate burial and funeral feast for the remains of the Eucleia cult and the dedications of its most famous patron.

Dr. Elizabeth D. Carney

is the Carol K. Brown Professor emerita in Humanities at Clemson University. She is the author or editor of Woman and Monarchy in Ancient Macedonia (2000), Olympias, Mother of Alexander the Great (2006), Philip II, Alexander III: Father and Son, Lives and Afterlives (2010), Arsinoe of Egypt and Macedon: A Royal Life (2013), King and Court in Macedonia: Rivalry, treason and conspiracy (2015), Royal Women and Dynastic Loyalty (2018), Eurydice and the Birth of Macedonian Power (2019), and The Routledge Companion to Women and Monarchy in the Ancient Mediterranean World (2020).

This is the second online event sponsored by Dr. Celia Fountain, after last year's webinar featuring Professor Paul Cartledge. For all events - lectures, webinars, and symposia - sponsored by Dr. Fountain, click here.

The Celia M. Fountain 2022 Webinar with Professor Elizabeth Carney; Thursday, September 15, 7:00 p.m.

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Learning From the Past: Classics and the Contemporary World

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The Celia M. Fountain 2021 Webinar

Learning from the Past: Classics and the Contemporary World
Prof. Paul Cartledge, University of Cambridge

Tuesday, May 25 | 11:00am MDT | Virtual Webinar

Painting of the Reconstruction Of The Acropolis And Areopagus In Athens by Leo Von Klenze

This webinar explores contemporary political and social issues, including the nature of populism and authoritarianism and the treatment of disenfranchised groups, through the lens of ancient Athens and its extraordinary democracy with Prof. Paul Cartledge, emeritus A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at the University of Cambridge.

Paul Cartledge is a world-renowned Classicist and expert on ancient Greece, whose recent books include Democracy: A Life (2018) and Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece (2020). In 2021, he received the Commander of the Order of Honor from the Greek government for enhancing the reputation of Greece.

This lecture is free and will be hosted on Zoom.

Click here to register

This lecture is sponsored by Dr. Celia M. Fountain. CU Classics is grateful for her generous support.

View the Poster here

The Celia M. Fountain 2021 Webinar - Explore contemporary political and social issues, including the nature of populism and authoritarianism and the treatment of disenfranchised groups, through the lens of ancient Athens and its extraordinary democracy.

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2020 Fountain Symposium

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Eighth Annual Celia M. Fountain Symposium

Jewish Identity in the Hellenistic World

Sunday I March 1, 2020

Center for British & Irish Studies, Norlin Library

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The Fountain Symposium is free and open to the public.

The Fountain symposium is an annual event organized by the Department of Classics and sponsored by Dr. Celia M. Fountain, a CU ��«��Ƶ alumna. This series was inspired by Dr. Fountain’s appreciation for Alexander the Great (336-323 BC) and the Hellenistic era of the ancient Mediterranean that was created by his conquests. Beginning in 2013, each symposium has featured three lectures by internationally-renowned scholars focused around a single theme. Past symposia have been on topics related to power and politics in the ancient Mediterranean, the impact of Alexander on Rome, and 4^th-century Greek culture, as well as on broader subjects like the Persian Empire and Late Antiquity. In its eighth series, the Fountain symposium speakers are engaging with the culture of Judaism and its interactions with the Greek world in the two centuries between Alexander and coming of the Rome.

11:00AM: Erich Gruen

Gladys Rehard Wood Professor of History & Classics, University of California, Berkeley

Displaced in Diaspora? Jewish Communities in the Hellenistic World

The Jews of antiquity dwelled in communities all over the Mediterranean and the Near East, far outnumbering those in the homeland of Judea. The lecture seeks to elicit the circumstances, lifestyles, practices, and attitudes of Jews scattered in places remote from their origins and seeking to establish an identity in a world dominated by Greek culture and Roman authority. It uses literary, epigraphic, papyrological, and material evidence to seek out Jewish formation of communal life, relations with authorities and the majority cultures, the maintenance of religious traditions, and the development of distinctiveness in a diaspora setting.

Lunch Break

1:30PM: Sharon Herbert

J.G. Pedley Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Postcards from the Edge: Hellenistic Archives and Archival Practices as Signals of Identity, Jewish and Other

The Hellenistic world was awash in paperwork. Archives, ranging in size and pretension from huge municipal buildings to humble storage jars in household basements, abounded. Although the papyrus records have for the most part been lost to fire and damp, thousands of clay seal impressions have survived to shed light on the identity and tastes of the peoples using the archives. This paper will examine Hellenistic archives in and around Israel, looking closely at chosen seal imagery from Kedesh, Beth Shan/Skythopolis, and Samaria. It will compare these choices to those made for other, farther afield archives at Seleucia on the Tigris, Uruk, Carthage, and Delos. Finally, it will turn to the only indisputably Jewish archives from anywhere close to the Hellenistic era. These are three from a 5th c. BCE Jewish garrison on the Persian controlled Egyptian island of Elephantine. The identities involved, not always expressed in a straightforward manner, are manifold and the conclusions surprising.

Coffee Break

3:45PM: Tim Whitmarsh

A.G.Leventis Professor of Greek Culture, Cambridge University

Hellenistic Judaism and the making of Greek Poetics

We have from the Hellenistic period a number of Jewish texts that borrowing their form from Greek poetry (epic and tragedy). Traditionally these have been considered in terms of unidirectional influence of Greek culture on Jewish. This paper broadens the context, considering instead how Greek and Jewish cultures influenced each other reciprocally, and in particular how the encounter helped transform Greek conceptions of poetics.

The full poster can be found here.

Parking: Lot 380 is the closest lot to Norlin Library. The Sunday rate is $1/hour in this lot.

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2019 Fountain Symposium

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King and Kingship
in Ancient Persia

Saturday 2 March 2019
Center for British & Irish Studies
Norlin Library, ��«��Ƶ

11:00 AM: Wouter F.M. Henkelman

Associate Professor, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris
The Centrality of the King: The Fortification Archive & the Royal Household

1:30 PM: Margaret Cool Root

Professor and Curator Emerita, Department of the History of Art, the Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art & Archaeology, and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor
Performative Arts of Persian Kingship: The Imperial Covenant in Metaphorical Landscapes & Social Spaces

3:15 PM: Mark Griffith

Klio Distinguished Professor of Classical Languages & Literature and Professor of Theater, Dance & Performance Studies, University of California at Berkeley
Imagining the King: Greek Notions & Theatrical Constructions of the Persian Royal Family

4:30 p.m. - Private reception - Please RSVP for the reception

Free and open to the public. Please contact Elspeth.Dusinberre@colorado.edu with questions.

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2018 Fountain Symposium

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Sixth annual
Celia M. Fountain Symposium

“Greece in transition in the age of Alexander”
Saturday 3 March 2018

Location:

British & Irish Studies Room, Norlin Library, 1720 Pleasant St, ��«��Ƶ, CO 80309, ��«��Ƶ

Schedue of Events:

10:00 a.m - Coffee and welcome

11:00 a.m - Andrew Ford, Ewing Professor of Greek Language and Literature, Department of Classics, Princeton University: "On the Verge of a new Reality? Greek literature at the time of Aristotle and Alexander"

12:00 p.m. - Lunch and conversation

1:30 p.m - Susan Rotroff, Jarvis Thurston & Mona Van Duyn Professor Emerita, Department of Classics, Washington University in St. Louis: "The Robe of Pharnabazos: Persians in 4th century Athens"

3:15 p.m. - Paul Cartledge, A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture Emeritus, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge: "The Fate of Thebes at the time of Aristotle and Alexander: a tale of sex and death"

4:30 p.m. - Private reception - Please RSVP for the reception here: https://goo.gl/forms/0eaCiRaMBQfMxUIA2

For more info please contact Dimitri.Nakassis@colorado.edu or call 303-492-6257

See the Event Poster for information

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2017 Fountain Symposium

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Continuity and Change in Late Antiquity

Fifth Annual Celia M. Fountain Symposium

Saturday, March 4, 2017

British & Irish Studies Room, Norlin Library

Schedule of events for Saturday, March 4, 2017:

11:00 AM: Gillian Clark, Professor Classics and History, University of Bristol - Barbarian Scriptures? Augustine and the People with the Books

1:45 PM: Susanna Elm, Sidney H. Ehrman Professor of History and Classics, University of California, Berkeley - Carthage and the New Romans: Salvian of Marseilles on the Governance of God

3:30 PM: Ralph Mathisen, Professor of History and Classics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - We Have Met the Enemy and They are Us: Barbarians and the End of the Western Roman Empire

The event will be held in the British and Irish Studies Room in Norlin Library at the ��«��Ƶ.

Visit www.colorado.edu/classics or contact andrew.cain@colorado.edu or 303-492-6257 for more inforamation.

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2016 Fountain Symposium

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Please join us for the fourth annual, Celia M. Fountain Symposium, "Rome and the Hellenistic World" on Saturday, March 5, 2016.

11:00 AM - Kings, Conquerors, and Coins - Liv Yarrow, Associate Professor in the Department of Classics, Brooklyn College and Graduate Center, CUNY

1:45 PM - The Creation of Roman History in the Hellenistic World - Denis Feeney, Giger Professor of Latin, Princeton University

3:30 PM - Responding to Roman Hegemony: Samothrace, Rhodes, and Athens - Andrew Stewart, Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Art and Archaeology in the Departments of History of Art and Classics at UC Berkeley & Nicholas C. Petris Professor of Greek Studies

Symposium will take place in the British and Irish Studies Room in Norlin Library on the ��«��Ƶ campus.

Contact Jackie.Elliott@colorado.edu or 303-492-6257 with questions.

www.colorado.edu/classics

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2015 Fountain Symposium

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Sixth annual
Celia M. Fountain Symposium

“Power and Politics in the Greek World”
Saturday 4 April 2015

Location:

British & Irish Studies Room, Norlin Library, 1720 Pleasant St, ��«��Ƶ, CO 80309, ��«��Ƶ

Schedue of Events:

11:00 a.m - Leslie Kurke, Gladys Rehard Wood Chair, Department of Classics and Comparative Literature, University of Berkeley, California: "The Materiality of Politics: A Pindaric Case Study"

1:45 p.m - Ian Morris, Jean and Rebecca Willard Professor of Classics, Stanford University: "The Sources of Social Power in Ancient Greece"

3:30 p.m. - Robin Osborne, Professor of Ancient History, University of Cambridge: "The Power of Images in Democratic Athens"

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2014 Fountain Symposium

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Second annual
Celia M. Fountain Symposium

“The Ideal Ruler in the Hellenistic World”
Saturday 15 March 2014

Location:

British & Irish Studies Room, Norlin Library, 1720 Pleasant St, ��«��Ƶ, CO 80309, ��«��Ƶ

Schedue of Events:

10:15 a.m - Eckart Schütrumpf, Professor Emeritus, University of Colorado, ��«��Ƶ: "The Letter in Arabic from Aristotle to Alexander on the Art of Government - Did Aristotle Really Write it?"

11:30 a.m - R.R.R. Smith, Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art, Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford: "Fighting with Alexander: Art and History in the Alexander Mosaic from Pompeii"

1:45 p.m - Susan Stephens, Sara Hart Kimball Professor in the Humanities, Department of Classics, Stanford University: "Imagining Royals: The Poets and the Ptolemies"

3:30 p.m. - Joseph Manning, William K. and Marilyn M. Simpson Professor of Classics and History, Yale University: "Sovereignty and Governance in the Hellenistic World: Ideal Kings in the Real World"

The Ideal Ruler in the Hellenistic World

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2024 Fountain Symposium

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Fountain Lecture: "Eurydice, Mother of Philip II of Macedon, and the Power of Memory"

The Celia M. Fountain 2022 Webinar

Eurydice, Mother of Philip II of Macedon, and the Power of Memory

Professor Elizabeth Carney

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Learning From the Past: Classics and the Contemporary World

The Celia M. Fountain 2021 Webinar

Learning from the Past: Classics and the Contemporary WorldProf. Paul Cartledge, University of Cambridge

Tuesday, May 25 | 11:00am MDT | Virtual Webinar

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2020 Fountain Symposium

Eighth Annual Celia M. Fountain Symposium

Jewish Identity in the Hellenistic World

Sunday I March 1, 2020

Center for British & Irish Studies, Norlin Library

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2019 Fountain Symposium

Saturday 2 March 2019 Center for British & Irish Studies Norlin Library, ��«����Ƶ

11:00 AM: Wouter F.M. Henkelman

1:30 PM: Margaret Cool Root

3:15 PM: Mark Griffith

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Sixth annual Celia M. Fountain Symposium

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2017 Fountain Symposium

Fifth Annual Celia M. Fountain Symposium

Saturday, March 4, 2017

British & Irish Studies Room, Norlin Library

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Second annual Celia M. Fountain Symposium

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Learning from the Past: Classics and the Contemporary World
Prof. Paul Cartledge, University of Cambridge

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Saturday 2 March 2019
Center for British & Irish Studies
Norlin Library, ��«��Ƶ

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Celia M. Fountain Symposium

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Celia M. Fountain Symposium

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Celia M. Fountain Symposium