主题：早期的希腊历史学家

主讲人：Timothy Elliott Duff（ Professor of Greek, University of Reading）

时间：9月18日下午 1:30-3:00

地点： 校本部C楼512室

对象：外语学院教师、研究生及全校感兴趣师生

讲座简介：

讲座将介绍两位最早、最具影响力的西方作家：希腊历史学家希罗多德和修昔底德。讲座将介绍他们的作品和他们的创作背景；此外，为了解两位作家的创作构思，我们将研究他们的一些作品节选。值得注意的是，他们在相互竞争中以及在与像荷马一样的诗人的竞争中认识了自己，他们也明白了作为一个道德高尚的历史学家的角色，即好人好事将被纪念，反之将被谴责。

主讲人介绍：

Timothy Duff is Professor of Greek at the University of Reading (UK). He is a specialist in Ancient Greek history, language and literature. His research interests are in Greek and Roman historiography and biography, and the Greek literature of the Roman imperial Period, especially Plutarch.He was educated at the University of Cambridge, and has held fellowships at Princeton University, Harvard University, the Free University of Berlin, the Australian National University, Wolfson College Cambridge, and the University of Cincinnati. He has taught at the British Archaeological School at Athens.

His publications include Plutarch's Lives: exploring virtue and vice (Oxford University Press: 1999), The Greek and Roman Historians (Duckworth/Bristol Classical Press: 2003), and Plutarch: the Age of Alexander (Penguin: 2012).

More information at https://www.reading.ac.uk/classics/about/staff/t-e-duff.aspx