Deinotaton Panton: The Most Dreadful of All. Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus and Its Reception

23^rd of March, Wednesday

9h00 – 10h30 Keynote lecture (online): Bernd Manuwald (University of Marburg), Could Oedipus have become king of Corinth? Reflections on recent scholarship on Sophocles’ Oedipus the King

11h30 Session One: Power and Language (Lubrański Hall)

Jan Kucharski (Silesia University), Oedipus’ Freudian slips: language, kinship and tyranny

Edmund Stewart (University of Nottingham), Tragedy and Tyranny: or why Oedipus is called “tyrannos”

13h00 lunch

24th of March, Thursday

9h00 Session Two: Enigma and Knowledge (Lubrański Hall)

Łukasz Berger (Adam Mickiewicz University), Deixis in the opening scene of Oedipus Tyrannus and its functions

Agnieszka Kotlińska-Toma (University of Wrocław), Poikiloidos’ Sphinx: the great absentee of Sophoclean plays

10h30 coffee break

11h00 Session Three: Philosophy and Opera

Mateusz Stróżyński (Adam Mickiewicz University), Who’s your father? Oedipus and the fall of soul in Plotinus’ Enneads

Piotr Urbański (Adam Mickiewicz University), Oedipus in opera

12h30 Concluding remarks