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Invitation to a Guest Lecture by Prof. Philipp Kobusch (Rostock)The Chair of Classical Archaeology at Justus Liebig University Giessen cordially invites you to a guest lecture: Speaker: Prof. Philipp Kobusch (Rostock) About the Lecture: In Greek religious practice, cult statues represented the deity and therefore served as the focal point of a wide range of ritual acts and prayers. Their exceptional and elevated status is reflected in numerous ancient texts, and many cult images were associated with miracle stories that attest to the perceived power and significance of these statues. Yet only a relatively small number of examples have survived, most of them in a highly fragmentary state. The statue of the Kore discovered at Kallipolis in the 1970s is arguably the best-preserved example from ancient Greece. This lecture seeks to demonstrate that the statue underwent extensive restoration already in antiquity and explores the implications of this finding for our understanding of the treatment of cult images and of ancient conceptions of what constituted a cult statue. |
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Epic Fails – Tragic Heroes, Antiheroes, and Ambivalent FiguresWhen we think of ancient myths, the images that usually come to mind are those of radiant heroes and all-powerful gods. Yet a closer look reveals a far more complex and shadowy world: one populated by tragic figures, antiheroes, and monsters against their will. Many of these stories are, in fact, stories of different kinds of failure. Hubris and self-inflicted downfall – when arrogance, overconfidence, or the pursuit of power paves the way to ruin. The Special Exhibition Epic Fails invites visitors to rediscover well-known myths as stories about transgression, defeat, and the ambivalence of heroism. |
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