The Greek Gods in the 21st Century
Dr. Michael
Griffin
UBC Classics, Near
East and Religious Studies
Monday 28 October
2019 at 7:30 pm
Upper Hall, Hellenic
Community Centre
4500 Arbutus
Street, Vancouver, Canada
Are the Greek
gods thriving in the 21st century? In this talk, we'll explore the
enduring appeal of figures like Zeus, Athena, Artemis, and Apollo
in modern story, art, and ideas. Setting out from fiction, film, and games, we'll
also investigate the legacy of the Greek gods in our
philosophy, psychology, and science, and the value—and challenge—posed by
the vision that Homer and Hesiod sang into being more than 2,500 years
ago.
Now it is time
for the gods to step out of inhabited things…
And to knock over
every wall in my house...
A brand-new field
of air. —Rilke
Now it is time for the gods to step out of inhabited things…
And to knock over every wall in my house...
A brand-new field of air. —Rilke
Richard Spratley,
President Pharos
And to knock over every wall in my house...
A brand-new field of air. —Rilke
Edward Lear’s Greece
Richard Spratley,
Monday 25 November, 2019 at 7:30 pm
Upper Hall, Hellenic Community Centre
4500 Arbutus Street, Vancouver
English author, poet, botanist and landscape painter Edward Lear (1812-1888) is best known today for his nonsense rhymes and limericks. However, in the mid-nineteenth century he travelled widely in Greece, Italy and the Middle East and his travel writings and sketches offer a fascinating insight into life in these areas. We will follow Lear’s travels in Northern Greece – then part of the Ottoman Empire – and share with him the trials of an eccentric English Gentleman in a very wild and uncivilized landscape.
