| Date | 14 April 2022 |
| Time | 10:00 - 17:30 |
| Location | Janskerkhof 2-3, Room 115 (Utrecht) / Online |
| Organizer(s) | Dr. Albert Joosse |
The sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi was one of the most important religious places in the Ancient Greek world. Its famous oracle impacted politics but also religious, philosophical and, more generally, cultural matters. While tradition was a powerful factor in shaping the sanctuary, it was also a hub for innovations of various sorts. With its religious and political weight, the sanctuary served – both as a physical space and as an institution – to legitimize new ideas, in effect anchoring innovations in a recognized system of values.
10:00 – 10:30: welcome and introduction
10:30 – 11:10: Therese EMANUELSSON-PAULSON (Stockholm University)
An octagonal votive column in Delphi
11:10 – 11:50: Massimo GIUSEPPETTI (Università degli Studi Roma Tre)
Anchoring Civic Identity at Delphi: The Inscribed Songs of the Athenian Treasury
11:50 – 12:30:
Banban WANG (University of Heidelberg)
Anchoring the Monumental Landscape: Early Roman inscriptions contextualised in the Hellenistic sanctuary of Apollo Pythios
12:30 – 13:30: lunch break
13:30 – 14:10: Antti LAMPINEN (Finnish Institute at Athens)
Galatai and Galli: Delphi as the Anchor for Hellenistic Innovations in Barbaromachy
14:10 – 14:50: Stefano ACERBO (University of Seville)
Delphi and the Aesopic tradition
14:50 - 15:30: Calloway SCOTT (University of Cincinnati)
Hippocrates’ Delphi: Innovating the past in the Hippocratic pseudepigrapha
15:30 – 15:50: coffee break
15:50 – 16:30: Bram DEMULDER (Leiden University)
New: the source. Anchoring innovation in Plutarch’s Delphic dialogues
16:30 – 17:10: Rebecca FRANK (Oberlin College)
Debating the Oracle: The Delphic Oracle as a Literary Motif in Imperial Greek Philosophy
17:10 – 17:30: concluding remarks
Organisers: Jean Vanden Broeck-Parant (jean.vandenbroeck@gmail.com) and Albert Joosse (L.A.Joosse@uu.nl)