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Today: Sabbatical Talk by Jennifer Ballengee

Sabbatical Talk by Jennifer Ballengee

April 18, 2024  |  4:00 PM  |  LA 4310

“Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Delphi, Prometheus, Failure”

This talk discusses Aeschylus’ 5th c. BCE play Prometheus Bound and its performance at the 1927 and 1930 Delphic Festivals organized by the American heiress Eva Palmer-Sikelianos and her husband, the Greek poet Angelos Sikelianos.  The Sikelianos’ hoped that the enduring ruins and natural landscape of Delphi would provide a foundation and focus for their spiritual project—though the engagement of the Greek government put those goals in tension with political demands.  At a time when a sense of autochthony or origin continues to invigorate political struggles over geographic landscapes, this presentation provides a timely meditation upon the potential and the limits of landscape to be mapped to a spiritual or political project.

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