主题：古雅典的兴衰

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

时间：9月21日下午 13:30-15:00

地点：校本部C楼512室

对象：全校感兴趣本科生

讲座简介：重点研究的是在权力及影响力顶峰时期（公元前5世纪）的古希腊城邦雅典，并研究雅典人的自治方式，即民主与人民主权。本讲座旨在让学生了解古雅典在政治思想和实践方面做出的独特贡献，以及与其他古希腊城市相比，古雅典的与众不同。我们也将了解到，民主的古雅典躲过了波斯帝国的袭击却未能抵抗斯巴达的入侵。

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