Department Colloquium: Hanna Golab (Columbia and NYU) "Healing choruses and therapeutic landscapes of Roman Greece"

Speaker: Hanna Golab, Visiting Scholar at the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University and Adjunct Lecturer at New York University

Title: "Healing choruses and therapeutic landscapes of Roman Greece"

Abstract: In this talk, Dr. Golab introduces the corpus of epigraphic choral lyric and explores the dynamics between literary inscriptions and performance. She establishes that there was a ‘paianic revival’ in the Roman Empire – a poetic trend most vividly present in the epigraphic medium. The reasons for the revival were manifold, but this talk focuses on the intersections of ancient ideas about song, epigraphy, and healthy environment. It argues that the inscribed paians were a part of a more widespread effort to create therapeutic landscapes in Roman Greece.