Lansdowne Lecture and Classical Association of Vancouver Island

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Thursday, February 8th, 2018
7:30 PM to 9:30 PM

Professor Gregory Woolf (University of London, Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, Professor of Classics and Director of the Institute of Classical Studies) is the 2017-18 Lansdowne Guest Speaker presented by the University of Victoria’s Department of Greek and Roman Studies.

He will present a lecture entitled, “Crossing the Mediterranean Then and Now: the Sea that Connects and the Sea that Divides.” Professor Greg Woolf’s areas of expertise include the history and archaeology of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds at the very large scale. His scholarly achievements include agenda setting works on Roman rule and native cultures in Becoming Roman: the Origins of Provincial Civilization in Gaul (1998) and Tales of the Barbarians: Ethnography and Empire in the Roman West (2011). He focuses on tyranny and civil society in Et tu, Brute? the Murder of Caesar and Political Assassination (2006) and the Roman empire in comparative perspective in Rome: an Empire’s Story (2012).

Dr. Woolf’s Lansdowne Lectures will reflect his current research interest in the movements of peoples and ideas in the Mediterranean world. Visit the GRS website http://www.uvic.ca/humanities/greekroman/ for more information about this and up-coming events; please visit the Lectures page or refer to the “News” feed on the right hand-side of the home-page.

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