NPAGR at THE CA

NPAGR will be at the Classical Association conference in St Andrew's with two connected panels on The Panathenaia: Sensory and Cognitive Approaches

These are on Friday in sessions 1 (12:00-14:00) and 2 (13:00-17:00) in Seminar Room 1 of Younger Hall. Papers include:

Session 1

• Walking with Athena: A Guided Meditation though the Panthenaic Procession (Ellie Mackin Roberts)
• Reflecting the Snake: The Constellation Draco and Agency Detection in the Panathenaia (Amy Arden)
• Time's Sacred Thread: Chronoception and Ritual Labour in the Weaving of the Panathenaic Peplos (Ellie Mackin Roberts)
• Sensing the 'Might of the Gods': Embodied Cognition and Arousal in the Panathenaic Apobatai (Ben Cassell)

Session 2

• The Panathenaia, Ritual Viewing, and Eurpides' Ion (Lauri Reitzammer)
  
• Undersatnding human-animal relationships at the Panathenaia (Sarah Eisen)
• 'Setting Sail at the Kerameikos': The Panathenaic Festival and Identity Construction in Roman Athens (Margarita Sardak)

​We look foward to seeing you there!