Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 5 p.m. (coffee at 4:30, reception to follow) in the Cowell College Provost House
In light of David Malouf's 2009 novel Ransom, based on Priam's supplication of Achilles in Book 24 of Homer's Iliad, the lecture will consider the figure of Priam as a vehicle for reconciling cultures and histories via the study of classical receptions, paying particular attention to debates about restorative justice.
Emily Greenwood is an Associate Professor in the Classics Department at Yale, where she also has a courtesy appointment in the African American Studies department. She has published widely on ancient Greek historiography and on black classical receptions — the way in which writers and artists have adapted Greco-Roman Classics within African and Afro-diasporic cultures. Her main publications include Thucydides and the Shaping of History (2006) and Afro-Greeks: Dialogues between Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Classics in the Twentieth Century (2010).
Award of the Sol & Esther Draznin Classics Endowed Scholarship will precede the lecture; reception will follow.
