Nancy Felson, professor of classics at the University of Georgia, will give the Winslow Lecture at Hamilton on Thursday, March 6, at 4:10 p.m. in the Science Center's Kennedy Auditorium. Her lecture is titled "Trouble at the Games, Praise and Blame in Homer," and is sponsored by Hamilton's Classics Department. This event is free and open to the public.
Her talk will examine two athletic competitions from the perspective of intergenerational conflict and victory-ode themes, including fair play and praise and blame. The contests between Odysseus and the young Phaeacian Euryalus (Odyssey 8) and between Menelaus and the young Antilochus (Iliad 23) represent two early instantiations of the values that underlie the ideology of the victory ode.
Felson has published Regarding Penelope: From Character to Poetics (1994) and has served as editor of "Semiotics and Classical Studies" (Arethusa 1983) and "Deixis and Greek Choral Lyric" (Arethusa 2004). She has also edited Symbols in Ancient Greek Poetry and Myth (1980) and co-edited Contexualizing Classics: Ideology, Performance, Dialogue (2000). Her other publications include work on story patterns and deictics in Pindaric victory odes and on constructions of gender in victory odes and epic, most recently with an emphasis on boyhood and masculinity. She is currently writing a book titled Unseating the Father: Filial Poetics in Archaic Greek Poetry and Attic Drama. Felson is the coordinator of Georgia's master's program in classical languages and the director of Reacting, UGA -- an innovative pedagogy that she has introduced across the liberal arts curriculum at University of Georgia.
For more information, please contact Carl A. Rubino (315-859-4283, crubino@hamilton.edu) in the Department of Classics.
Her talk will examine two athletic competitions from the perspective of intergenerational conflict and victory-ode themes, including fair play and praise and blame. The contests between Odysseus and the young Phaeacian Euryalus (Odyssey 8) and between Menelaus and the young Antilochus (Iliad 23) represent two early instantiations of the values that underlie the ideology of the victory ode.
Felson has published Regarding Penelope: From Character to Poetics (1994) and has served as editor of "Semiotics and Classical Studies" (Arethusa 1983) and "Deixis and Greek Choral Lyric" (Arethusa 2004). She has also edited Symbols in Ancient Greek Poetry and Myth (1980) and co-edited Contexualizing Classics: Ideology, Performance, Dialogue (2000). Her other publications include work on story patterns and deictics in Pindaric victory odes and on constructions of gender in victory odes and epic, most recently with an emphasis on boyhood and masculinity. She is currently writing a book titled Unseating the Father: Filial Poetics in Archaic Greek Poetry and Attic Drama. Felson is the coordinator of Georgia's master's program in classical languages and the director of Reacting, UGA -- an innovative pedagogy that she has introduced across the liberal arts curriculum at University of Georgia.
For more information, please contact Carl A. Rubino (315-859-4283, crubino@hamilton.edu) in the Department of Classics.
