Photo: Yiannis Soulis
Adults
Artworks inspired by the Homeric epics
Dates
Tickets
Free admission
Venue
Onassis Library
Time & Date
Day
Time
Venue
Day
Wednesday 18 January
Time
18:30 - 20:30
Venue
Onassis Library (Amalias 56)
Introduction
A discussion on the Homeric epics and the ways artists depicted them across centuries.
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The colorful poetic images of Odyssey were inexaustible source of inspiration for the artists.
An Associate Professor of Art History and a PhD candidate of Ancient History of Ancient Art using audiovisual material, will attempt an interactive and experiential journey in the arts, identifying and presenting selected pieces of art inspired by the Homeric epic poems.
Credits
Speaker
Dimitrios Pavlopoulos, Associate Professor of Art History, Department of History and Archaeology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Speaker
Nefeli Kaimaka, PhD candidate in Ancient History, University of Athens, Scientific coordinator of the Onassis Library web application “Browsing Homer's Odyssey”
Narrator
Alexandra Aidini, actress
