IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 820: Martians Landing Under Our Radar?: Contextualizing Martianus Capella's Deviancy or Heresy
Tuesday 14 July 2009, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Platinum Latin |
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Organiser: | Danuta Shanzer, Department of Classics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign / Dumbarton Oaks Medieval (Latin) Library |
Moderator/Chair: | Kurt Smolak, Institut für Klassische Philologie, Mittel- & Neulatein, Universität Wien / Kirchenväterkommission, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
Paper 820-a | The Theory of Apokatastasis in Some Late Platonists, Pagan and Christian (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Pagan Religions |
Paper 820-b | The Dark Side of Paganism: Magic and Theurgy in Martianus Capella (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Pagan Religions |
Paper 820-c | Martianus and Christianity Reconsidered (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Pagan Religions |
Abstract | This session unites three speakers who will (re-) consider the orthodoxy of the mysterious late Latin encyclopaedist and antiquarian Martianus Capella from different perspectives. His pagan doctrine of apokatastasis will be covered, also his attitudes to magic and theurgy, and last his relationship to Christianity. The session is intended to contribute to the Special Thematic Strand. |