Is It All Greek to You? Lecture Series Speaker to Discuss Importance of Studying Ancient Greece
UCs McMicken College of Arts and Sciences is hosting the third lecture in the Transforming the World, Advancing Humanity series at 3 p.m. Dec. 5 in Room 1110 Edwards One (Taft Research Center).
Kathryn Gutzwiller will be exploring reasons to know ancient Greece and forming a connection with fellow humans from the past. She will also examine Greek poetry a scholarly form that descends from ancient prototypes in an era of expansive and ever-changing access to information and a multiplicity of approaches to literature.
Gutzwiller has taught classics at UC since 1979. A specialist in the Greek poetry of the Hellenistic age, she has published five books, including the award-winning "Poetic Garlands: Hellenistic Epigrams in Context." She will be discussing continuity and change in the study of Greek poetry.
The McMicken lecture series features six speakers, and it will cover a broad variety of topics with the primary focus of advancing humanity.
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