Spui25: Glenn Most and the accessibility of ancient Greek and Roman texts

Glenn Most and the accessibility of ancient Greek and Roman texts

In cooperation with Athenaeum Boekhandel, Harvard University Press and NKV

Nine new volumes in the acclaimed Loeb-series on the early Greek philosophers constitute a landmark for modern-day knowledge of pre-Platonic philosophy. The publication of the extant fragments in forty-three chapters epitomises the aims the Loeb Classical Library have been realising for over a century: to make ancient texts more accessible for a larger audience.

Early Greek philosophy had always been the domain of the scholar in the higher tiers of academic life. With this ambitious new collection, Harvard University Press has made sure the Loeb Classical Library realises what it set out to do: to proliferate knowledge of the entirety of ancient literature in Greek and Latin. At the same time, the editors of the new volumes had to make important choices in the presentation of the material. Choices that perhaps shed new light on a literary debate hitherto hidden in academic obscurity. One of these revolutionary stances has been to treat Socrates as a Sophist.

This, amongst a broader variety of subjects, we’ll expound in discussion with co-editor of the Loeb series and professor Glenn Most, Mirte Liebregts and classicist David Rijser. The evening will be moderated by Diederik Burgersdijk.

About the speakers
Glenn Most is an American classicist and comparatist, teaching as a Professor of Ancient Greek at the Scuola Normale at Pisa. He is co-editor of the nine new instalments of the Loeb Classical Library we’ll be discussing the 12th of April.

Diederik Burgersdijk is lecturer Latin at Radboud University and researcher at the Allard Pierson Museum, University of Amsterdam. His most recent book about religious matters from Late Antiquity till the present time, De Sluipwesp en de Lelien, was published in Dutch at Athenaeum Publishers.

David Rijser is lecturer and researcher at the University of Amsterdam. In 2016 he published Een telkens nieuwe Oudheid. Of: Hoe Tiberius in New Jersey belandde and writes on Antiquity for the media.

Mirte Liebregts obtained her BA and MA in Classics at the University of Amsterdam and at the Amsterdam Centre for Ancient Studies and Archaeology (ACASA) and completed a Master of Studies (M.St.) in Greek and Latin Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford.

Registration
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