Call for papers for a collective volume

In 2024, the AGRELITA ERC (The Reception of Ancient Greece) organised several scientific events on the theme of "New lives of Greek deities in Europe from the 14th to the 20th century". An international colloquium was held at the University of Caen-Normandy on 23 and 24 May, followed by a study day at the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal in Paris on 29 May . Finally, a second international colloquium was held at the École française d'Athènes on 14 and 15 November (see https://agrelita.hypotheses.org).

The proceedings of these events will shortly be published by Brepols in the collection 'Recherches sur les Réceptions de l'Antiquité' (https://www.brepols.net/series/RRA).

In order to enrich this publication and the panorama offered to readers in this field of research, the ERC AGRELITA is launching a call for papers with the aim of including articles covering the period from the end of the sixteenth century to the twentieth century inclusive.

The submitted papers may deal with the following themes, which do not exhaust the range of possibilities:

- Textual representations of Greek gods and the forms of writing - description, narrative, commentary - used to describe them.

- From translation and compilation to adaptation and invention: the circulation and reconfiguration of knowledge.

- The rediscovery of ancient representations (statuary and other visual arts): new ways of seeing and understanding Greek divinities.

- The literary and artistic contexts in which authors and artists created images of these gods.

- The cultural and political contexts and debates in which they addressed these deities.

- The interpretations of these deities and the different purposes for which they were invoked - political, ethical, religious, scientific, poetic, etc.

- The visual representations of these deities in manuscripts and printed works: their representations and meanings, their links with other forms of artistic representation devoted to them.

- The links between texts and images in manuscripts and printed works.

- The actualising/anachronistic appropriation or, on the contrary, the view of antiquity and its otherness reflected in the textual and visual images of these deities.

- The circulation, reception and transformation of representations from the late 16th to the 20th century inclusive: the transmission and renewal of the memory of these deities.

- The transposition of these deities into new universes.

Submission procedure

Proposals for articles in French or English (title and abstract of 200-300 words), together with a short CV, should be sent by 31 March 2025 to the following addresses: catherine.gaullier-bougassas@unicaen.fr and laure.cebe@unicaen.fr.

Selected articles must be submitted no later than 15 July 2025 (maximum 50,000 characters, including notes and spaces). Articles must be unpublished.

Scientific Committee

- Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas, University Professor of Medieval French Language and Literature, ERC Agrelita (Principal Investigator), Craham (UMR 6273), Université de Caen Normandie

- Angèle Tence, Postdoctoral Fellow in Art History, ERC Agrelita, Craham (UMR 6273), Université de Caen Normandie