THEATRE SEMINAR

based on the Rhapsody λ, titled ΝΕΚΥΙΑ, from Homer’s Odyssey

July 16 - 24, 2016

Delphi

— In ancient Greek cult-practice and literature, a nekyia (Ancient Greek: ἡ νέκυια) is a "rite by which ghosts were called up and questioned about the future," i.e., necromancy. A nekyia is not necessarily the same thing as a katabasis. While they both afford the opportunity to converse with the dead, only a katabasis is the actual, physical journey to the underworld undertaken by several heroes in Greek and Roman myth. In common parlance, however, the term "nekyia" is often used to subsume both types of event, so that by Late Antiquity for example "Olympiodorus ... claimed that three [Platonic] myths were classified as nekyia (an underworld story, as in Homer's Odyssey, Rhapsody λ, book ΧΙ)".

Tutors

Chryssa Kapsouli, actress, director

Sissy Papathanassiou, director, theatrologist

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Νotice:  The lecture will be delivered in Greek or in English, depending on the audience.

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Homer's Odyssey, Rhapsody λ, book XI

TUTORS

• PAPATHANASSIOU SISSY
• KAPSOULI CHRYSSA