Data: 19 de fevereiro de 2026 | 10h00

Local: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa | FLUL - Anf. III

Organização: Centro de Estudos Clássicos

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Lisbon Classics Seminars:

Professor Maurizio Bettini (Emérito da Universidade de Siena), "The sisters of Meleager and their paradoxical mourning"

FLUL – Anf. III

19 de Fevereiro de 2026

No próximo dia 19 de Fevereiro, teremos mais uma sessão dos Lisbon Classics Seminars, às 10h00 no Anfiteatro III. Será dada pelo Maurizio Bettini (Professor Emérito da Universidade de Siena). O tema é "The sisters of Meleager and their paradoxical mourning".

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Summary: “The sisters of Meleager and their paradoxical mourning” The myth of Meleager culminates in the killing of the Calydonian boar by Atalanta, and in the conflict between the hero and his maternal uncles over the claim to the prize. The brothers of Althaea, the hero's mother, kill her nephew, causing grief and consternation among all the hunt participants. The hero's sisters, the Meleagrides, in particular, abandon themselves to an immoderate, uncontrollable mourning, so much so that the goddess Artemis, to stop them, transforms them into pharaoh hens (pintadas). During the seminar, we will highlight the network of family relationships underlying the construction of the myth and, in particular, the meaning of the metamorphosis undergone by the Meleagrides.