Le dixiéme régal des Kernophoroi
The Tenth Feast of the Kernophoroi

Summary/Abstract: The tenth Feast of the Kernophoroi” depicts the most prodigious pathways of the ancient Greek route crossed by the heroic category and by the associated functional typology in its increasing complexity. The original Greek heroic character generates a polyhedral category that escapes a fixed classification while being liable to dangerously permissive and polysemous generalisations. The editors and the contributors to this Colloquium’s Acts inferred a series of this matter’s difficulties (such as the semantic ambiguity of the notion of heros, the heterogeneity/rarefaction of sources) and illustrated the main currents and approaches without the pretence of exhausting all potential perspectives on the subject. The achievement of this Colloquium spanned all areas of the heroic typology, from the lyric poem with its epic and elegiac precedents to tragedy, epigraphy, iconography, archaeology, from the archaic and geometric époque to the syncretism of the end of Antiquity.

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