The Departments of Classics and Philosophy present the Winslow Lecture, featuring C. J. Rowe speaking on Men and Monsters: Plato and Socrates on Human Nature, on Monday, Oct. 14, at 4:10 p.m. in the Red Pit.
Christopher Rowe is professor of Greek at the University of Durham, England. Educated at Cambridge (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.), he has taught at the University of Bristol and has been Friedrich Solmsen Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has served as chair of the Council of the Classical Association and as president of the International Plato Society. An internationally known authority on ancient Greek philosophy, he is the author of numerous articles and books, including The Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics (1971), Plato (1984), a commentary on Plato's Phaedo (1993), and translations of and commentaries on Plato's Phaedrus (1986), Statesman (1995), and Symposium (1998). He is also the editor of Reading the Statesman: Proceedings of the Third Symposium Platonicum (1995).
This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
