UIC Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies

UIC - Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies
presents a conference on

PARADISE
The Lexicon of Felicity
in the Eastern Mediterranean

Paul Griffiths: Introduction

Nanno Marinatos:
"Exit from Paradise: a reading of Genesis in the light of Ancient Mediterranean Traditions"

Sarah Isles Johnston:
"The Holy Meadows Once Again, New Reflections in Orphic Eschatology and Anthropogony"

Rachel Havrelock:
"Rivers of Paradise: The Juncture of History and Redemption"

Robin Darling Young:
"Imaginal Ascent to Paradise in the Hymn of the Pearl,
Ephrem's On Paradise and Jacob of Serug's the Chariot:
The Development of Early Syrian Tradition"

Danuta Shanzer:
"Paradise: Yearning and Cogitation-the Later Roman West"

Fritz Graf:
"The Vocabulary of Paradise: Conclusions on the conference"

Paul Griffiths: General Discussion