Nemzetközi bizantinológiai konferencia Budapesten

Centre and Periphery in the Age of Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos

From De cerimoniis to De administrando imperio: an
international symposium in memory of Professor Gyula Moravcsik

Keynote speakers:

Paul Magdalino
Athanasios Markopoulos
Peter Schreiner

12-14 November 2009
CEU-Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Detailed programme here

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The CENTER FOR HELLENIC TRADITIONS cordially invites you to the next lecture of the Hellenic Colloquia Series:

By

Michael JEFFREYS
(University of Oxford)


Publishing a Greek source for middle-twelfth-century Hungarian history:
Manganeios Prodromos - choices and perspectives


Time: Thursday, March 5, 18:15
Place: CEU, TIGY Room, Nador 11, Budapest

Abstract:

The period from 1049 to 1055 is important in Byzantine-Hungarian relations, as a period of peaceful co-existence is replaced by more hostile contacts. Much of the evidence coming from Byzantium is hard to use, because embedded in popular Byzantine propaganda. The colloquium will report a new series of such narratives from the work of Manganeios Prodromos, whose work is only now being edited, ready for integration into the historiography of Hungary and elsewhere. The new narratives will be compared with details of current histories of Hungary (in western European languages). There will also be discussion of the ways in which texts like this should be edited, to highlight elements due to propaganda, thus allowing readers to concentrate on what might interest them more. The editors hope that, after such analysis, both Hungarian and other material in Manganeios may be more effectively presented to its readers.

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The CENTER FOR HELLENIC TRADITIONS

cordially invites you
to the next lecture of the 4th
Hellenic Colloquia Series

By

Matthew SAVAGE
(University of Vienna)


Church Towers in Byzantium: Byzantine, Ottoman and modern-day perspectives


Time: Thursday, January 22, 18:15
Location: CEU, Popper Room, Nador 9, Budapest

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Glenn Most
The Child is Father of the Man: Childhood Experience and Adult Character, Then and Now

Time: Monday, 8 December 2008, 17:30
Place: CEU, Zrinyi 14, Room 412

How do people tend to conceive the relation between a person's childhood experiences and his adult character? Beginning with a comparison between Homer's epic Iliad and Salman Rushdie's novel Fury, the paper explores two different models by which this relation has often been conceived, of which one was dominant in Greco-Roman antiquity and the other in our own culture.

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Gerhard Wolf
The Transfigured Mountain. Sacred Topography and the Icons at Saint Catherine's monastery (4th to 13th century)

Time: Tuesday, 9 December 2008, 16:00
Place: CEU, Monument Building, Popper Room

The lecture is about the changing nature of pilgrimage to Mount Sinai from Early Christianity to the Crusades. It questions the relation between the walled monastery and the holy sites in the desert and discusses the collecting of icons, focusing on their specific aesthetics and role within and beyond the monastery. And finally, it iuxtaposes the scriptural tradition of the holy sites of Moses and Elijah with the establishing of the cult of Saint Catherine from the 12th century on.

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James Allen (University of Pittsburgh)
Why there are ends of both goods and evils in ancient ethical theory

Time: Tuesday, 9 December 2008, 5.30 PM
Place: Zrinyi 14, Room 412

This talk's point of departure is Cicero's De finibus bonorum et malorum (On the ends of goods and evils). This work is probably our most important source of information about Hellenistic ethical theory, but its title has long been a puzzle. One renaissance scholar chalked it up to an error on Cicero's part. Although this solution to the problem has not won many adherents, talk of ends of both goods and evils remains mysterious. This paper begins with a review of the history of the question and attempts at a solution. I then present evidence from Cicero and, especially, Greek authors before proposing an account of ends of goods and evils that relates the meaning of this phrase to the more familiar sense of the end as that for the sake of which.

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Bronwen Neil

"The Miracles of Saints Cyrus and John"
The Latin transmission of the Greek text

16 October 2008, 18:00
CEU, Nador 9, Popper Room

Abstract

The text entitled The Miracles of Saints Cyrus and John was composed in Greek by Sophronius, patriarch of Jerusalem (634-638). The text concerns the miracles of two healing saints: Cyrus, supposedly a physician of Alexandria, and John, a soldier in Egypt. Their cult was established by the 'discovery' of their relics by Cyril of Alexandria in the fifth century, and it replaced the local Egyptian cult of Isis at Menouthis. After the Arab conquest of Egypt it spread to Rome and Constantinople, and an Arabic legend of the saints' healings developed. It is argued that Sophronius used his version of the miracles to strengthen his claims for the orthodoxy of those who opposed the imperially-sponsored doctrines of monoenergism and its later development, monothelitism. Sophronius's text was translated into Latin by Anastasius Bibliothecarius in the late ninth century and survives in a single manuscript. By examining Anastasius's political motives for this choice of text, we find it being used to argue for Roman orthodoxy and primacy in the latter half of the ninth century.

SEEAP meeting on Theophrastus' Metaphysics

The Center for Hellenic Traditions
cordially invites you to the next meeting of the
Southeast European Association for Ancient Philosophy

on

Theophrastus: Metaphysics
26–28 June 2008

Budapest V., Zrínyi utca 14, Room 411/a
Central European University

Programme

26 JUNE, THURSDAY

10:00-11:30 Chapters 15, 4a1-5a5 Myles Burnyeat
11:40-13:10 Chapters 69, 5a5-b18 Karel Thein

13:10-15:00 LUNCH BREAK

15:00-16:30 Chapters 1013, 5b19-6b22 Giannis Papachristou
16:40-18:10 Chapters 1415, 6b23-7b8 Vladimir Marinov

27 JUNE, FRIDAY

10:00-11:15 Chapters 1618, 7b9-8b9 István Bodnár/Péter Lautner
11:30-14:00 Chapters 1925, 8b10-9b15 Pavel Gregorić/Filip Grgić

AFTERNOON FREE

28 JUNE, SATURDAY

10:00-11:30 Chapters 27, 28, first half of 29, 9b25-10b7 Dimka Gocheva
11:40-13:10 Chapters 29 (second half), 30, 31, 10b7-11a13 Jakub Jirsa

13:10-15:00 LUNCH BREAK

15:00-16:30 Chapters 32-34, 11a13-12a2 Stasinos Stavrineas

16:45 SEEAP ASSEMBLY

19:00 CONFERENCE DINNER

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The CENTER FOR HELLENIC TRADITIONS at CEU

cordially invites you
to the next lecture of the
3rd series of the

HELLENIC COLLOQUIA

László Horváth:
The New Hyperides in the Archimedes Palimpsest

Time: 17:30, 4 June 2008
Location: CEU, Nador 9, Gellner Room

Abstract:

The aim of the present paper is to examine a significant question related to
Hyperides' apology entitled Against Diondas: its dating. Having established
the exact date of its composition, we can attempt to deal with the speech in
its connections with the extremely interesting political history of Athens
in the 4th century BC.

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cordially invites you
to the next lecture of the
3rd series of the
HELLENIC COLLOQUIA

by

Brad Inwood
Tria Genera Bonorum

25 March 2008

Time: Tuesday, March 25, 16:30
Location: CEU, Philosophy Department, Zrinyi 14, Room 412

“Go on, then, if you want, make your classifications and lay out your fancy distinctions of goods into three or four or many kinds! These categorizations have no bearing on the issue and this isn’t the way to bring us over to Plato.” This complaint from the Platonist Atticus reflects a long history of debate about the good. Is there just one kind of good (one thinks of Plato’s Form of the good) or are the complex classifications we find in later ancient texts closer to the truth? In this paper I try to reconstruct the history of the doctrine that there are goods of the body, goods of the soul, and external goods, along the way pointing to the moral of the story: that technical classifications can sharpen ethical discussion (such as the debate about the nature of the happy life) but can just as easily undermine it if taken too far. Platonists, Peripatetics and Stoics were all involved, but the positions taken do not align with school affiliations; the philosophical inclinations of individuals seem to play a greater role.

Hellenic Colloquia

The CENTER FOR HELLENIC TRADITIONS at CEU
cordially invites you
to the next lecture of the
3rd series of the
HELLENIC COLLOQUIA

by

Niels Gaul
(Medieval Studies, CEU)

Iconoclasm, Plato, and the performative turn

Time: Wednesday, March 12, 18:00
Location: CEU, Gellner Room, Nador 9, 1051-Budapest

"Iconoclasm, Plato, and the performative turn", a work-in-progress report, re-examines the so-called "classical tradition" in Byzantium from its revival in the late eighth and early ninth centuries to its increasing immersion in Italian Renaissance culture during the first half of the fifteenth century, challenging the very notion of a "tradition". Instead, the paper attempts to suggest a variety of motivations tied into the changing specific socio-historical circumstances, which kept Byzantine interest in ancient Greek rhetoric and philosophy alive throughout the empires existence.

It proceeds in three steps: First, by outlining the discursive construction of a seemingly all-powerful Christian emperor from the times of Constantine I (r. 306-337) to the mid-seventh century, and his subsequent /de/construction during the "imperial heresies" of the seventh and eighth centuries and beyond, new interpretations of the post-iconoclast reigns of Michael III (r. 842-67) and Leo VI (r. 886-912) with regard to their impact on schooling and learning are being suggested; second, the end of the /ancien régime/ and the successful establishment of a new dynasty, the Komnenoi clan, in 1081 emerges as a decisive turn in both Byzantine rhetorical and philosophical production, certainly regarding its performative aspects; third, it is investigated to which degree manuscript studies as well as spatial considerations can assist the modern researcher in her/his attempt too understand the phenomenon of classicizing Byzantine "literature" or, if one prefers, "Hellenism".

Hellenic Colloquia

The CENTER FOR HELLENIC TRADITIONS and the DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY at CEU cordially invite you to the next lecture of the 3rd series of the HELLENIC COLLOQUIA by Nikos Tz. Sergis Greek philosophy before the national revolution (1821): mysticism, enlightenment and the transformations of the battle between Platonism and Aristotelism Time: 17:30, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 Place: Gellner Room, CEU, 1051 Budapest, Nador 9 Abstract: In this lecture, Greek philosophical thought from 1453 (“Fall of Constantinople”) till 1821 (“National Revolution”) will be discussed. Except the various names the research gave to the period, two major antitheses will be studied: mysticism ≠ Enlightenment and Platonism ≠ Aristotelism, which are important elements in order to interpret Greek philosophy. The hypothesis discussed in the lecture, namely the homogeneity between Byzantine and post-Byzantine philosophical thought, contains fundamental characteristics of Byzantine philosophical debate that survive after the “Fall”, as the “equation” of philosophy and education, the ancient language – philosophical “instrument” or the theological “condemnation” of the philosophers. The lecture finishes with three main problems of approach that the researcher faces dealing with the epoch: the “problem of the sources”, the “problem of the outset” and the “problem of period division”. Provided the hypothesis gets accepted, “New Greek philosophy” is supposed to exceed the region of a “national” philosophy.

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The CENTER FOR HELLENIC TRADITIONS and
the DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY
at CEU

cordially invite you
to the next lecture of the
3rd series of the

HELLENIC COLLOQUIA

by

Jennifer Whiting
(Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto)

Psychic Contingency in Plato: Rethinking the Tripartite Soul

Time: Tuesday, February 12, 16:30
Location: CEU, Room 412, Department of Philosophy, Zrinyi u. 14,
1051-Budapest

Abstract: Commentators often assume (a) that the argument of Platos
Republic requires that each human being has exactly the three and only
the three parts of soul required by the dialogues state-soul analogy and
(b) that this tripartition (also found in the Phaedrus and Timaeus)
reflects a change of mind on Platos part from the Phaedo (where
appetites and emotions that the Republic ascribes to the lower parts of
soul are ascribed instead to the body and the soul itself is viewed as
simple). I challenge both assumptions, first showing how Socrates (the
character in the Republic) seems to take his argument there to allow for
contingency in how many parts, and exactly which parts, any given soul
has. His view seems to be that the well-ordered souls described in Book
IV are unified in a way such that they do not have the sort of genuinely
distinct parts that the corrupt souls described in Books VIII and IX do.
If this is right, then we can see how the views Socrates expresses in
the Phaedo may be compatible with those he expresses in the Republic:
for he may be talking in the Phaedo primarily about what he takes his
own, philosophically cultivated soul to be like, while talking in the
Republic primarily about what he takes the souls of the many to be like.

Hellenic Colloquia 3rd series opening lecture

The CENTER FOR HELLENIC TRADITIONS
cordially invites you

to the opening lecture of the 3rd Hellenic Colloquia Series

By Alexis LEONAS
Getting the Message: Aspects of Septuagint Reception in Antiquity

on
17:30, Wednesday 7 November 2007
Gellner Room, CEU, Nador 9

Science and philosophy in Antiquity

Science and philosophy in Antiquity

A conference organised jointly by

Center for Hellenic Traditions
Central European University

and

Department of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
Eötvös University

Budapest, 7–9 June 2007
Gellner Room, Monument Building
Central European University
Nádor utca 9, Budapest

7 June

9:30 Opening of the conference

Section 1

Chair: István Bodnár
10:30 Sabetai Unguru Varieties of Historiography of Hellenistic Mathematics
12:00 Vassilis Karasmanis On the pre-euclidean Elements of geometry

Lunch

Section 2

Chair: Filip Grgic
15:00 Philip van der Eijk Medical ideas in philosophical contexts: Hippocratic and Galenic contributions to the mind-body problem in late antique thought
16:30 Caroline Petit Philosophy or pharmacology: Galen's dilemma over the powers of simple drugs

8 June

Section 3

Chair: István Bárány
10:00 Myles Burnyeat The Greek vocabulary for knowledge: Plato, Aristotle, and Heraclitus
11:30 Henry Mendell Ordinary Science in the Time of Plato

Lunch

Section 4

Chair: Péter Lautner
14:30 Jens Høyrup Which kind of mathematics was known by and referred to by those who wanted to integrate mathematics in "Wisdom" -- Neopythagoreans and others?
16:00 Leonid Zhmud Mathematics vs Philosophy. An alleged fragment of Aristotle in Iamblichus.

9 June

Section 5

Chair: Karel Thein

10:00 Serafina Cuomo Ancient philosophies of technology
11:30 László Bene Cause and cosmogony in Plato’s Laws X

Lunch

Section 6

Chair: Gábor Betegh

14:30 Katerina Ierodiakonou Remarks on the History of an Ancient Thought Experiment
16:00 Keimpe Algra Epicurus and Gassendi on Astronomy and on the Sun

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Hellenic Colloquia sorozatának
következő előadása:


Antonis Tsakmakis
(University of Cyprus)

Leadership and the invention of political communication
in classical Greece

2007, május 30, szerda, 17.30.

CEU, Nádor u. 9, Gellner Room.

Hellenic Colloquia Series

A Hellenic Colloquia Series
következő előadása:

MICHAEL GRUENBART
(Universität Wien / Bibliotheks- und Archivwesen
Fachbereichsbibliothek Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik)

History in Lead: Byzantine Sigillography and its Aims

Időpont: 2007. március 28., szerda, 17. 30
Helyszín: CEU, Nádor u. 9, Gellner terem

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Anna Somfai

(Collegium Budapest)

Plato’s Timaeus and the Latin tradition of diagrammatic reasoning

28 February, 2007, Wednesday, 6 p.m.

CEU, Nádor u. 9, Gellner Room.

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Filip GRGIĆ (Fellow of the Hellenic Center, Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb, University of Rijeka)

Sextus Empiricus on the possibility of inquiry

16 January, 2007, Tuesday, 5 p.m.
CEU, Zrínyi u. 14, Room 412.

At the beginning of the second book of his Outlines of Pyrrhonism Sextus Empiricus raises the question how can the Pyrrhonist inquire into something of which he has no knowledge. This is a question of vital importance for the Pyrrhonists, who insist that we should suspend judgment about everything and who characterize themselves as perpetual inquirers. I will discuss Sextus’ solution to this problem. He seems to accept the idea that in order to inquire into something one must have some concept of it, and that such an antecedent concept does not imply the existence of its object. I will try to show that this is just a dialectical concession to his opponents.

Filip Grgić is a research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb and a visiting lecturer at the Department of Philosophy, University of Rijeka. His research interest is in ancient philosophy, especially Aristotle and skepticism. His publications include articles in Ancient Philosophy, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, Phronesis and elsewhere.

(Forrás: www.hellenic.hu)