athanassakis lecture
Professor Apostolos Athanassakis Lecture at CSU, Sacramento
Friday 3-20-09
Professor Apostolos Athanassakis, who will deliver this Friday, March 20, the Opening Night Lecture for the Mehri Yazdani exhibit in the University Library Gallery(exhibit: “Hellenism & the Elements”; lecture: “Hellenic Poetry as the Art of Speaking through the Elements”) has offered to preside at an informal discussion of various topics relating to his scholarship and teaching.
The discussion will take place this Friday from 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. on the CSUS campus in Amador 354. Feel free to drop in or to leave anytime during the session.
Professor Athanassakis is an expert on Homeric poetry and on Hesiod, among various other subjects in classical studies. Depending on the interests of attendees, topics of discussion likely will include:
· Homeric geography
· Arrangement of the books of the Odyssey
· Translating the works of Hesiod, the Homeric poems, the Orphic hymns, the Apocolocyntosis, et al.
(Some have probably read his translations published by Johns Hopkins University press, and included in classical mythology anthologies, etc.) For information on Professor Apostolos: http://www.classics.ucsb.edu/athanassakis.php
The schedule for the evening lecture:
· Reception (Library breezeway), 6:00-7:00; the exhibit will be open
· Lecture, 7:30 (inside the Library, next to the Gallery)
