The Interaction between Ancient Textile Craft, Greek Poetry, and Music
With an introduction on the methodologies of the disciplines involved
Research and Development Workshop
10 November 2015 at the CTR Library
The Science of Text: The Case of Classical Studies
| 13:00 – 13:15 | Classical philology and its methods: a short overview. Giovanni Fanfani |
| 13:15 – 13:35 | An introduction to papyrology, with a special focus on documentary papyri. Mario Paganini, Copenhagen Associations Project, The Saxo Institute |
| 13:35 – 13:45 | Digital Classicist 101: the classical scholar’s digital toolkit. Part 1: modelling textual data for the classical scholar. Maria Papadopoulou |
| 13:45 – 14:00 | Discussion |
14:00 – 14:15 |
Coffee break |
| 14:15 – 14:40 | Convergences in poetic imagery between textile craft and music: discussion of some passages in archaic and classical Greek poetry. Giovanni Fanfani |
| 14:40 – 15:00 | Songs to/at the loom in 20th century Sicily. The perspective of an ethnomusicologist – with a short introduction on ancient musical theory. Giuseppe Sanfratello, The Saxo Institute |
| 15:00 – 15:15 | Discussion |
15:15 – 15:30 |
Coffee break |
| 15:30 – 15:50 | Spectators in performance. Theocritus Idyll 15. Maria Papadopoulou |
| 15:50 – 16:00 | Discussion |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Cocktails and snacks |