Dr. Polyvia Parara Delivers Paper at NeMLA Conference

Dr. Polyvia Parara delivers her paper "Revisiting the Tragic Poets: Why they are Relevant for Modernity" at Baltimore conference.

Dr. Polyvia Parara delivered her paper entitled "Revisiting the Tragic Poets: Why they are Relevant for Modernity" at the 53rd NeMLA Annual Conference, hosted by Johns Hopkins University on March 10-13, 2022 in Baltimore, MD. Dr. Parara's paper discusses the relevance of the Athenian tragedy for today's modern world in its function as a political institution that substantiates the foundational values of Athenian Democracy. This paper stems from her research on the political aspect of dramatic poetry, arguing that among its other functions-religious, social, moral- Greek tragedy reflects and shapes the democratic culture of the city-state of Athens in the fifth century BC. Also, it stems from a newly introduced epistemology in Greece, entitled "cosmosystemic gnoseology", that classifies societal evolution from the angle of political freedom.