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This booklet contains the conference programme and abstracts.

The Pallas volume will be on show, as will an Athena-related treasure owned by the University of Roehampton. The event will both reflect and appraise this renewed interest. The event takes place at a time of a resurgence of interest in the goddess evidenced, for instance, by the latest edition of the journal Pallas devoted to Athena-related papers. This one-day conference will share current research on a deity that has been a topic of interest since the dawn of classical scholarship and through its various 'turns.' The event will appraise various ways to approach the goddess by drawing together current researchers from the following seven (a good Athena-related number…) countries: Austria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and the UK. The myth of the wounded maker-god becomes a way of perceiving, understanding and reifying the ambidextrous, consilient consciousness needed to navigate a dangerous world. Logic places these qualities at opposing ends of a cognitive and behavioral spectrum, but the unique combination of techne with metis, seen in light of another Hephaistean epithet, amphigueeis, an ambiguous term which can be translated either as “crippled” or “ambidextrous,” lameness or crooked-walking reveals itself as emblematic of the ability to contain apparent opposites in dynamic tension. The Greek god Hephaistos, crippled god of technology and making, is the paradigmatic possessor not only of consummate technical skill (techne), but also of cunning intelligence and flexible opportunism (metis). Mythopoesis becomes an active mode of cognition via the imaginative interaction with the cosmos. The second is “monstrous technology,” seen in recent works of fiction and cinema that identify the Hephaistean archetype with the dangers of technological hubris and with the “military-industrial complex.” The study concludes with a depth-psychological examination of the constructive purposes of myth, and examples of contemporary re-mything of the archetype of the maker.ĭepth psychology provides a means to view consilience as an expression of anima mundi, a world ‘alive’ with consciousness, in which humanity takes part. One is the “wounded artist,” exemplified in recent depth psychological writing that depicts Hephaistos as emblematic of the “mother-wounded” and thus psychically impaired creative masculine. This research traces the beginnings of the changes in the cultural meanings of the archetype of the maker that have resulted in its fragmentation, as discernible in two mythopoetic themes. While contemporary cultural norms image the artist and technologist as having divergent aims and values, the examination of Greek and other myths undertaken as part of this study shows that they were anciently connected, and revered, as aspects of the same archetype. This work presents Hephaistos as representative of the archetype of the maker, a mythic image that has become fragmented.

Argonauts agency chair of hephaestus level 13