PROGRAMME
09.00-09.20 : Welcome Address by the President of the Academy of Athens, Prof. Em. Nikiforos Diamandouros
09.20-09.30 ¨Welcome Address by the Supervisor of the Research Center for Antiquity, Prof. Em. Michalis Tiverios
Session 1: Ιmages in the Athenian Gymnasia
09.30-10.00 : Plato’s portrait statue in the Academy
Emmanuel Voutiras (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
10.00-10.30 : A significant place in the heart of the city. Images of deities, portrait statuary, and cultural references in Athenian gymnasia
Ralph Krumeich (University of Bonn)
10.30-11.00 : An enigmatic archaic head from Plato’s Academy
Stavroula Asimakopoulou (Ephorate of Antiquities of the City of Athens) and Dimitris Sourlas (Ephorate of Antiquities of the City of Athens)
11.00 -11.15 : Coffee Break
Session 2: Herms in Gymnasia: an Attic Innovation
11.15-11.45 : Hermes and Hermai in Gymnasia and Agonistic Contexts of Attica
Pelayo Huerta Segovia (University of Santiago de Compostela)
11.45-12.15 : An Unknown Herm of Herakles possibly from the Diogeneion
Dimitris Sourlas (Ephorate of Antiquities of the City of Athens)
12.15-12.45 : Carving the Face of the Ephebeia – Herms and Inscribed Herm-Bases from the Hellenistic Period on Delos
Regina Hanslmayr (University of Zurich) and Caterina Schorer (Universities of Zurich and Heidelberg)
12.45-13.45 : Lunch Break
Session 3: Gymnasium Education, Memory, and Death
13.45-14.15 : A glimpse of the Gymnasium through Attic funerary monuments
Dimitra Terzopoulou (Αcademy of Athens)
14.15-14.45 : Memory and History in the Gymnasium: The Case of Plato’s Academy
Nikolaos Petrocheilos (Ephorate of Antiquities of the City of Athens)
14.45-15.15 : Θησεὺς εἰμὶ νέος… The funerary stele of the young Paramonos
Aikaterini Gianna (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
15.15-15.30 : Coffee Break
15.30-16.15 : General Discussion and Conclusions