主题：古希腊的世界

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

时间：9月19日下午 16:00-17:30

地点：校本部社区学院403

对象：全校感兴趣本科生

讲座简介： 介绍古典时期的古希腊世界（公元前5世纪—公元前4世纪）。讲座将侧重于自治城邦的概念以及不同城邦的政治和社会形式变化；并把斯巴达和雅典两个城邦作为案例来进行对比研究：特别是作为世界第一个民主国家的雅典城邦，我们将重点分析其制度。公元前490年和公元前480—470年，波斯入侵希腊惨遭失败，这是西方文明史上一件重要的大事，本讲座将紧密围绕这一事件进行分析。

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