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<span style="color:#212121">We are delighted to invite you to the second presentation of Semester 1, 2025 in our Classics and Ancient History research seminar series.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="color:#212121">March 17th (Monday, 12.15pm UTC+11) in the VGCC Boardroom</span></b><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121">Zoom link:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/83159864939" target="_blank" title="https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/83159864939"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#96607D">https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/83159864939</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="color:#212121">Anthony Hooper (University of Wollongong)</span></b><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><i><span style="color:#212121">Epic<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i><span style="color:#212121">kleos<i> as a Model for Immortality in Plato</i></span></b><b><i><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">How do we become immortal? On the face of it, the matter seems clear enough: just don’t die! But while such an answer can’t be faulted on the grounds of pithiness and
simplicity, living forever is not always the most practical, or potentially even desirable option. There is another thread of thought which appears in contemporary reflection on immortality, which traces its roots back to the ancient world, which presents
another possibility: we might secure immortality by employing our productive capacities. On this account, by producing artefacts which outlast us, we might ‘live on’ in the world long after our individual lives have come to and end. Not just any production
will do, of course, but it is a familiar enough claim in regards to great monuments, works of art, and even certain philosophical productions. But can such a conceit pass philosophical muster, and transcend mere metaphorical operation?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">This paper pursues a defence of the model of immortality-via-production pursued by Plato in his <i>Symposium</i>. My innovative manoeuvre is to pursue
hitherto unrecognised epic entanglements of Diotima’s account. My focus is the extended passage of 208c1-209e4, in which Diotima offers various examples of erotic productivity to justify her claims that the artefacts which result from this process - either
children or poetic and philosophical <i>logoi</i> - serve to furnish their producers with immortality. I suggest that, in this passage, Diotima situates her account of immortality-via-production in an established tradition of post-mortem fate which I refer
to as the ‘<i>kleos</i> tradition’, which finds its foundational expression in the <i>Iliad</i> and the <i>Odyssey</i>. In doing so I argue that Diotima develops a plausible and defensible account of immortality on her own criteria, which touches on matters
of memory, narrative, honour, recognition, and social identity, among other important issues.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">Anthony Hooper </span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">is Lecturer in the School of Liberal Arts at the University of Wollongong. His central research
interests is the intersection of ancient philosophy and literature, with a focus on exploring these points of contact in Plato. He is the co-editor of the volume, <i>Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Greece, </i>and the upcoming volume, <i>The
Draw of Thaleia: Plato and Comedy in the Socratic Dialogues</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#212121">For further information please reply to this email off-list.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#212121">All best, Ben<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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