ECLOGUES OF DESIRE. Cultural Myths of the Golden Age
June 5, 2023
9:00-9:15 Opening Remarks
Claudia Olk and Stephen Nichols
9:15 “The Origins of the Myth of the Golden Age and its
Early Transformations”
Chair: David Wellbery
9:15-10:15 Oliver Primavesi: “Golden Age – Progress – Cosmic
Cycle: Three Models of World History in Early Greek
Thought”
10:15-11:15 Daniel Heller-Roazen: “The Oldest Reading:
Prometheus and the Arts of Divination”
11:30-12:30 Stephen Nichols: “‘Playing Dice with the Universe:’
Eros and Chaos in Hesiod’s Myth of the Golden Age.”
14:00 “A Literary Life before the Renaissance: The Golden
Age in Medieval Texts”
Chair: Stephen Nichols
14:00-15:00 Gaia Gubbini: “After the End. The Troubadours, the
Golden Age, and a Fading Civilization”
15:00-16:00 Brian Reilly: “An Age of Black and Blue or White and
Gold?: Contretemps of Salvific History”
16:15 “The Variance of Revivals: The Golden Age in
Renaissance Texts”
Chair: Gaia Gubbini
16:15-17:15 Andreas Höfele: “The Golden Age Restored: Theatre
and Stuart Politics”
17:15-18:15 Claudia Olk: “‘T’excel the Golden Age’: Golden
Worlds in Shakespeare”
June 6, 2023
9:30 “The Variance of Revivals: The Golden Age in
Renaissance Texts”
Chair: Gaia Gubbini
9:30-10:30 Eleonora Stoppino: “Niccolò Della Valle between
Hesiod and Homer”
10:45-11:45 Jack Abecassis: “Hesiod & Montaigne, the Human
Landscape”
11:45-12:45 Joachim Küpper: “Patriarchal Fantasies and Feminist
Libertarianism: Don Quixote’s Praise of the Golden
Age and Marcela’s Plea for Freedom”
14:00 “After-Life and Analogies: The Golden Age in Modern
Texts and in Non-European Textual Cultures”
Chair: Joachim Küpper
14:00-15:00 David Wellbery: “The Golden Age in the Age
of Goethe”
15:00-16:00 Michael Lackner: “The Roots of Chinese Civilization:
A Golden Age?”
16:30 Concluding Discussion
Chair: Stephen Nichols and Claudia Olk
Prof. Dr. Claudia Olk
LMU München
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Venue: Südliches Schlossrondell 23
80638 München