The Power of Blood - Blood and Blood Ties in Greek and Roman Discourse

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The Power of Blood - Blood and Blood Ties in Greek and Roman Discourse

Veranstalter
Julia Hoffmann-Salz, Universität Mannheim
Veranstaltungsort
EO 162 (1.Etage, Ostflügel, Schloss) Universität Mannheim
Gefördert durch
Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
PLZ
68131
Ort
Mannheim
Land
Deutschland
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Hybrid
Vom - Bis
13.06.2024 - 15.06.2024
Von
Julia Hoffmann-Salz, Historisches Institut LS Alte Geschichte, Universität Mannheim

Internationale hybride Tagung an der Universität Mannheim, 13. bis 15. Juni 2024, die sich mit den verflochtenen Bedeutungsebenen von Blut in griechisch-römischen Diskurs beschäftigt und dabei Blut in den verschiedensten Bereichen von Medizin, Religion bis Identität und Politik beleuchten möchte.

The Power of Blood - Blood and Blood Ties in Greek and Roman Discourse

From – often large scale – animal sacrifices to gladiatorial shows, from fighting in wars to accidents, from slaughter of animals for meat consumption to the actual consumption of animal blood, from bloodletting as medical therapy to menstruation in cramped living conditions, blood flowed rather freely in the ancient world and seeing – often large quantities of – blood must have been a common occurrence in the daily lives of the peoples of the ancient Mediterranean. This led to blood and the ties it created to be topics in different areas of ancient daily lives – and the meaning of blood and blood ties in each of these areas must have seen mutual interferences. However, these different contexts have so far been the objects of specialist studies that only rarely share their results with each other.

It is the aim of this conference to rectify this situation – by bringing together scholars from different research areas, it is hoped to offer a deeper understanding of how, when and why blood and blood ties were topics in ancient discourse. To understand this is particularly pertinent at a time when new methodologies such as DNA research seem to be able to offer ‘biological’ solutions for questions of identity and ethnicity – while anthropological studies maintain that identity and ethnicity are social constructs. Before these modern debates can go forward, it is essential to ascertain what the ancient Greek and Romans actually thought about blood and blood ties and how multiple layers of meaning mutually influenced each other – in other words: What was the power of blood in the Greek and Roman world?

Programm

Thursday, 13.6.2024

13.30 Welcome and Introduction

Section 1: Blood that flows

13.45 Jan Timmer (Bonn), Ein besonderer Saft? – Blut bei den medizinischen Fachschriftstellern der römischen Kaiserzeit

14.30 Teun Tieleman (Utrecht), Galen on the Power of Blood: Science, Folklore, Ideology

15.15 Meghan Poplacean, New Haven: Body as Earth, Blood as Nourishment in Roman Thought and Religion

16.00-16.15 Coffee break

16.15 Carlo Pelloso, Verona: Virgina, Virginius and Appius. Or how to curse the tyrant by shedding sacrificial blood (online)

17.00 Bruno Bleckmann, Düsseldorf: Die Ablehnung des blutigen Opfers durch Konstantin

Friday, 14.6.2024

Section 2: Blood that binds

9.30 Werner Eck, Cologne: Fern der Heimat und doch mit ihr verbunden? Zur Herkunft der Frauen von Auxiliarsoldaten (online)

10.15 Emily Kearns, Oxford: Blood and bloodlines in the Greek world before Aristotle (online)

11.00 Coffee break

11.15 Sabine Müller, Marburg: Kinship ties in Argead politics (online)

12.00 Angelika Kellner, Mannheim: Blood is Thicker Than Water. Family Ties and Trees in Greek Antiquity

12.45 Lunch break

14.45 Steeve Bélanger, Brussels: The Importance of the Blood of Christ and the Blood of the Martyrs in Christian Self-Definitions: Rethinking the Belonging in Early Christian Communities

15.30 Coffee break

Section 3: Blood that sets apart

16.00 Christian Laes, Manchester: The voices of blood and disgust in the Aesop Novel

16.45 Carlo Arrighi, Bologna: Il sangue prima delle parole: le espressioni dello scontro tra Roma e i barbari (online)

Saturday, 15.6.2024

9.00 Kendra Eshleman, Boston: 'An Orator by Descent': On the (Un)importance of Blood Ties to the Second Sophists

9.45 Christian Hervik Bull, Bergen: Cleansing and defiling blood in the Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis and his Gnostic Opponents

Section 4: Blood that pays

10.30 Julia Hoffmann-Salz, Mannheim: Dripping and Drenching? Blood on the battle field and in the arena

11.15 Coffee break

11.30 Karen E. Klaiber Hersch, Philadelphia: Revolutionary Blood: Tanaquil and Brutus

12.15 Laurence Totelin, Cardiff: Blood suckers and milk in the Greek and Roman antiquity (online)

13.00 Jessica Lamont, New Haven: Blood, Death, and Greek Ritual Practice (online)

13.45 Final discussion

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julia.hoffmann-salz@uni-mannheim.de

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