This project investigates physical wounds in ancient Greek imagination by analysing the wounded heroes in Sophocles’ tragedies and the split humans in Plato’s Symposium. A wound is a dynamic passage (poros) perforated across and within the human body. The external agent, be it human or nonhuman, breaches the bodily boundary and leaves an opening on the skin, which allows for material, sensory, and affective exchanges between bodies and their surroundings. This intersectional site is porous, and some questions are raised: 

• How does a wound enable material exchanges (e.g. poison, blood) to extend to sensory and affective communication between human and nonhuman agents?
• How does the heroes’ bodily openness affect their selfhood?
• What ethical roles humans should play towards themselves and their surroundings?
• How do modern theories and classical texts inform each other?