Mary Lefkowitz: Why We Can't Understand Greek Drama
Tuesday, April 7, 2015, 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Classical scholar Mary Lefkowitz, emerita professor of Greek and Latin at Wellesley College, discusses the theological and practical reasons why it's a bad idea to forget about the gods when reading or performing Greek drama. Free.
Location:
Humanities Building, Room 587
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Sponsor:
Center for Modern Greek Studies, the Nikos Kazantzakis Chair, in cooperation with Classics Department
Contact:
Center for Modern Greek Studies
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Phone:
415-338-1892
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Lefkowitz is the author of a number of studies including The Lives of the Greek Poets (2012), Women in Greek Myth (2007) and Greek Gods, Human Lives (2003). She co-edited Women’s Life in Greece and Rome (third edition, 2005). Lefkowitz is working on two related projects: a translation of Sophocles’ Electra for the new Modern Library Greek Drama, of which she is a co-editor, and also a book about the gods in Euripides’ dramas.