14/06/2021
Day 3 of AMPAL 2020-2021, we will be holding 2 concurrent panels. Panel A is on Religious and Theoretical Approaches to Fear in Ancient Culture. You can read the abstracts here: https://ampal2020.wordpress.com/programme-and-abstracts/
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In Session A1, Serena Evelina Peruch (Universities of Padua, Ca’ Foscari, and Verona) will be presenting on “Phobos, a Divinity between Persians and Gauls”
Serena Peruch is a PhD Student of Greek History at the Universities of Padova, Ca’ Foscari, and Verona. Her current research project focuses on the political propaganda of the Hellenistic Period and, in particular, on the figure of Antigonos II Goantas.
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In Session A1, Edward Ross (University of Reading). He will be presenting on “Bringing Merit to the Yonakas through Fear: The Perception and Use of Hell as Skilful Means in the Pāli Nikāyas”
Edward Ross is a PhD candidate at the University of Reading researching the inter-cultural religious interactions that took place in the Hellenistic Far East. He also holds degrees from McGill University and the University of Hong Kong.
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In Session A1, Mirko Tasso (University of Pavia) will be presenting on “Augustine’s View on the Essence of timor Dei within the Patristic Reflection on the Problem”
Mirko Tasso earned his BA and MA degrees at the University of Pavia. He is now waiting to start his PhD and continue his studies on Roman Late antiquity, Late-antique religions and their literary expressions.
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In Session A2, Alexandra Meghji (University of Oxford) will be presenting on “The Illusion of Ithaca: Lacanian Intersections of Fear and Desire in the Odyssey”
Alexandra Meghji holds a BA in Classics and is reading for an MSt in Women's Studies at Balliol College. In her research, she engages with current dialogues in classical reception about the facility of feminist theory to catalyze subversive re-readings and reinterpretations of epic poetry.
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In Session A2, Xavier Buxton (University of Oxford) will be presenting on “Snell and De Romilly: Earlier Historiography of Classical Fear”
Xavier is writing a DPhil on Aeschylus and Athens, looking for ‘the place where fear is good.’
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In Session A2, Thomas Munro (Yale University) will be presenting on “Psychological Realism and Intertext in Ovid’s Epistolographic Treatments of Fear”
Thomas Munro is a graduate student at Yale University, interested in interdisciplinary approaches to Latin literature, and classical reception, especially the use and manipulation of classical imagery in contemporary politics.
