Dr Jody Cundy visited the The Baron Thyssen Centre for the Study of Ancient Material Religion on 21st March 2019, to give a paper entitled “Paradoxographic mentalité and the sacred: thinking through (im)material collections in Pausanias' Periegesis Hellados”. After the seminar, Jessica Hughes and Jody Cundy were joined by Dr Jan Haywood and Dr Angeliki Lymberopoulou to record an audio discussion about ‘virtual collections’ of votives and relics in ancient Greek and later texts. The discussion also featured the voice of Dr Naomi Howell, talking about a different kind of ‘virtual votive’ collection - that is, the 3D digital scans and models of some surviving medieval wax votives in the collections of Exeter Cathedral.
Programme structure and timecodes
0.00 Introduction
1.00 Jody Cundy on Pausanias’ descriptions of votive dedications and relics in the temples of Peitho in Sicyon and Athena Elea at Tegea;
3.30 Jan Haywood on Herodotus and the dedications sent by King Croesus to Apollo at Delphi
6.58 Angeliki Lymberopoulou on the Gunther of Pairis’ inventory of sacred relics in the Abbey of Pairis, brought from the Church of Christ Pantokrator in Constantinople
12.50 Naomi Howell on the digitalisation of medieval wax votives from Exeter Cathedral
19.40 Studio responses to Naomi Howell
25.38 Jody Cundy on the Chest of Kypselos
26.41 Angeliki Lymberopoulou on the relic of the table of the Last Supper
28.00 Jan Haywood on a lustral vase from Delphi.
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