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Beauty, Bravery, Blood and Glory:
Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture

Bar Ilan University/Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
10-11 June, 2013.

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Organisers:
Dr. Lisa Maurice, Bar-Ilan University
Dr. Eran Almagor, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Provisional Programme

Monday 10th June, Bar Ilan University

9.00-9.45 Registration
9.45-10.00 Welcome
10.00 -11.00 Panel one
11.00-11.30 Coffee Break
11.30-13.00 Panel two
13.00-14.00 Lunch break
14.00-15.30 panel Three
15.30-16.00 coffee break
16.00-17.00 keynote 1: Professor Monica Cyrino, University of New Mexico

Tuesday 11th June, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

9.15-9.30 Welcome
9.30-10.30 Panel Four
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-12.00 Panel Five
12.00-13.00 panel Six
13.00-14.00 Lunch break
14.00-15.30 panel Seven
15.30-16.00 coffee break
16.00-17.00 keynote 2: Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, University of Edinburgh

Panel 1
Athens and Rome meet Jerusalem: Judaism and Classics in the Modern World

Epicurus, or Apikoros in Jewish culture.
Gabriel Danzig, Bar-Ilan University

‘Red Sea Pedestrians’ and ‘Bloody Romans’: Life of Brian and the depiction of Jews, Christians and Romans
Jo Whalley, Blundell’s School, Devon, U.K.

Maccabees and Hasmoneans in the Modern World
David Schaps, Bar-Ilan University

Panel 2
Ancient Women on the Modern Screen

The Good, the Bad and the Sexy? Femininity, Sexuality, Violence and the Heroic Female in Spartacus (2010-)
Anna Foka, Umeå University, Sweden

Representations of the Christian Female Virtue in Roman Film Epics. The Sign of the Cross (1932) and Quo Vadis (1951)
Panayiota Mini, University of Crete

Livia in HBO’s Rome
Anna McCullough, Ohio State University

Panel 3
Greek Myth in Modern Popular Culture

Hercules’ Choice: vice, virtue and the hero of the modern screen and their post-classical imitators.
Emma Stafford, Leeds University

“Why Read the Classics?”
Lily Glasner, Bar-Ilan University

"Patroclus, My Cousin": Masculinity, Nudity and Expressions of Sexuality in Hollywood Representations of Ancient Greece.
David Bullen, Royal Holloway College, University of London

Panel 4
Rome in the Modern Perception

Ancient Requiem for a Modern Dream: Screening Drug Use among Ancient Romans
Alex McAuley, McGill University

Caligula and Drusilla in the Modern Imagination
Emma Southon, University of Birmingham

The Sins of the City: Depicting Pompeian Vice and Virtue in Contemporary Popular Culture
Joanna Paul, Open University, UK.

Panel 5
Portraying Ancient Greece in the Modern World

Macedonia: between Greek Virtue and Barbarian Pleasure: 1956 and 2006
Maria Pretzler, University of Swansea

Spartan Motifs’ Usage in the Virtual-Gaming Industry
Maciej Daszuta, University of Warsaw/University of Liverpool

The Great God Pan Never Dies!
Dr. Aggeliki Koumanoudi, University of Haifa

Panel 6
Vice, Virtue and the Reception of the Classics in World Cultures

A Double Edged Sword – the Power of Bar-Kosibah: Zionism, Rabbinic Literature and Popular Culture
Chaim Weiss

Classics in the modern Russian underground culture: Psoy Korolenko as a modern aoidos.
Hava B. Korzakova, Bar Ilan University

The virtuous people: the use and abuse of ancient democracy in the debate on Greece’s EU membership from Pompidou to the debt crisis
Luca Asmonti, The University of Queensland