The Department of History and Didactics of History cordially invites the Faculty of Education of Charles University to a lectur held by: Prof. Dr. Heinrich Schlange-Schöningen (Institut für alte Geschichte, Universität Saarbrücken)
Annotation:
For the Athenians of the classical democracy of the 5th century BC, flight and foreignness were pressing political issues. How should one deal with the exiles from other poleis and, above all, with the many strangers who flocked to the city for economic reasons? They were "foreign Greeks" with the same language and religion, but also non-Greek merchants and craftsmen with strong cultural-religious differences. The ancient Greek myths provided the material to bring the theme of flight and foreignness onto the Attic theater stage in an alienated form. Starting with Aeschylus, who dealt with the flight of the Danaids to Argos in his "Hiketides", up to Euripides' "Iphigenia at the Taurians", several "flight plays" of the ancient dramatists can be examined: The lecture explores the question of how the poets deal with the subject of flight. The new methodological approach of "copresence" will also be explained, which focuses on the flight itself and its representation on stage as phenomenons of simultaneous experience of different time and space references.
The lecture will be held on the 10th of May, 10.45 at the Faculty of Education, Charles University
Magdalény Rettigové 4 a 8, Praha 1, 116 39
