Hymns of Isidorus

Seminar on the Hymns of Isidorus at Medinet Madi

University of Michigan — April 9–10, 2010

Friday, April 9, 2:00–6:00pm

Arthur Verhoogt (University of Michigan)
“Medinet Madi and its Papyri”

Robert Ritner (University of Chicago)
“Thiouis at Medinet Madi”

Christopher Faraone (University of Chicago):
“The Elegiac Hymns of Isidorus”

Ian Moyer (University of Michigan):
“Isidorus at the Gates of the Temple”

Discussion: Richard Janko (University of Michigan), Ludwig Koenen (University of Michigan) and Dirk Obbink (University of Oxford)

Resources

• Faraone, “The Stanzaic Structure of Isidorus, Hymns 2 and 4″
• SEG text of Isidorus’ Hymns
• Working Text for the Ann Arbor Conference (compiled by K. Rigsby, mainly following Bernand)
• Vanderlip’s 1972 Text and English Translation
• I. S. Moyer, “Isidorus at the Gates of the Temple”
• Ian Rutherford, “Isidorus’ Hexameter Hymns: Aspects of Poetics and Religion”