Forever Young: Why Cambridge has a Professor of Greek Culture

An A. G. Leventis Inaugural Lecture Given in the University of Cambridge, 16 February 2009

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Paul Cartledge

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The text of this inaugural lecture proposes that the newly established A. G. Leventis Professorship of Greek Culture is a new kind of chair: a chair not only for research but also for outreach, for the advancement of the public understanding of ancient Greek culture. After explaining its origins, and pondering the possible meanings of the Professorship's title, it seeks to explore four 'myths' about the ancient Greeks and their culture (or cultures), myths deliberately chosen to illustrate the huge range of the Hellenic tradition that is still actively at work in our own culture. These are: i. that there was an entity called 'Ancient Greece'; ii. that the ancient Greeks were technologically backward; iii. that the ancient Greeks really were (or looked) anything like they are depicted in such movies as 300; and iv. that the Greeks invented democracy in anything like the form in which we understand it today.

Author Biography:

Paul Cartledge is the inaugural A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture in the University of Cambridge. His many publications include The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece (1997, rev. 2002), The Greeks. A Portrait of Self and Others (2002), Ancient Greek Political Thought in Practice (2009), and Ancient Greece. A History in Eleven Cities (2009). He holds the Gold Cross of the Order of Honour (Greece) and is an Honorary Citizen of Sparti, Greece.

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December 10th, 2009

Author

Paul Cartledge

Audience

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

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123x186x23

ISBN-13

9780521121729

Product ID

3467320

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