主题:古雅典的矛盾
主讲人:Timothy Elliott Duff( Professor of Greek, University of Reading)
时间:9月23日下昼 13:30-15:00
所在: 校本部C楼512室
工具:外语学院西席、研究生及全校感兴趣师生
讲座简介:古希腊城邦雅典的住民建设了一套奇异的政治系统,,,,,,即人民整体加入决议,,,,,,大幅缩减富庶田主的的权力,,,,,,而这些田主在外邦通常属于统治阶级。。。。。。这种政治制度孕育了奇异的艺术形式(如:笑剧,,,,,,悲剧)。。。。。。但它也包括了许多看上去令人惊讶的特点:例如,,,,,,古雅典人以为举行选举是非民主的;;;;;他们还保存了仆从;;;;;只管古雅典人宣称一律是面向全体公民的,,,,,,可是他们仍然保存了外洋帝国,,,,,,用以侵略那些更小的古希腊都会。。。。。。
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