As part of the ongoing series of online lectures celebrating the 75^th anniversary of FIEC (full program available at www.fiecnet.org/75-years-fiec), we are pleased to invite you to the final lecture :

Professor Alberto Bernabé (Complutense University of Madrid/Spain)

La difícil definición de τὰ Ὀρφικά

November 28^th, 2024, at 7 pm CET (Central European Time)

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88638818975?pwd=dOndZOdtAMpzYdzcBHI9Yx3gcPiqwQ.1

Abstract (English)

Throughout the history of classical philology, the characterisation of the meaning, significance, unity and scope, of the literary and religious phenomena concealed by their attribution to Orpheus or their denomination as τὰ Ὀρφικά has been a much debated question and one that has gone through very sharp alternatives, from what has come to be called “Panorphism” to the denial of the existence of some kind of unitary reality behind such designations. I propose to rethink the question on the basis of a new analysis of the sources.

Abstract (Spanish)

A lo largo de la historia de la filología clásica, la caracterización del significado, la importancia, la unidad y el alcance, de los fenómenos literarios y religiosos que encubre su atribución a Orfeo o su denominación como τὰ Ὀρφικά ha sido una cuestión muy debatida y que ha pasado por alternativas muy bruscas, desde lo que se ha dado en llamar “panorfismo” hasta la negación de la existencia de alguna clase de realidad unitaria tras dichas designaciones. Me propongo reflexionar sobre la cuestión a partir de un nuevo análisis de las fuentes.

Alberto Bernabé is Professor Emeritus of Greek Philology at the Complutense University of Madrid. He has directed several research projects on Greek Religion. He has been Director of his Department, Vice-President of the Spanish Society of Classical Studies, President of the Spanish Society of Linguistics, President of the Center for Near Eastern Studies, and Vice-President of the Iberian Society of Greek Philosophy. He has given courses and lectures in Spanish and foreign institutions and is the author of more than 400 publications including articles and books on Greek and Indo-European linguistics, Greek literature, religion and philosophy. Among the books are the Teubnerian editions of the fragments of archaic epic poets (1987) and of the Orphic fragments (2004-2007), and, in collaboration with A. Jiménez, Instructions for the Netherworld, The Orphic Gold Tablets (2008). He has coordinated with F. Casadesús the book Orfeo y la tradición órfica: un reencuentro (2008), and with other editors, Redefining Dionysos, (2013) and Religión griega: una visión integradora (2020).

All interested are welcome!