古雅典的矛盾

2016.09.18

投稿:刘佳部门:外国语学院浏览次数:

活动信息

时间: 2016年09月23日 13:30

地点: 校本部C512

主题:古雅典的矛盾

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

时间:923日下午 13:30-15:00

地点: 校本部C512

对象:外语学院教师、研究生及全校感兴趣师生

讲座简介:古希腊城邦雅典的居民建立了一套独特的政治系统,即人民集体参与决策,大幅缩减富庶地主的的权利,而这些地主在外邦通常属于统治阶级。这种政治制度孕育了独特的艺术形式(如:喜剧,悲剧)。但它也包含了许多看上去令人惊讶的特点:例如,古雅典人认为进行选举是非民主的;他们还保留了奴隶;尽管古雅典人宣称平等是面向全体公民的,但是他们仍然保留了海外帝国,用以侵略那些更小的古希腊城市。

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