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Forever Young: Why Cambridge has a Professor of Greek Culture Paul Cartledge (University of Cambridge)

Forever Young: Why Cambridge has a Professor of Greek Culture By Paul Cartledge (University of Cambridge)

Forever Young: Why Cambridge has a Professor of Greek Culture by Paul Cartledge (University of Cambridge)

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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.

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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 by Paul Cartledge (University of Cambridge)

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.

About Paul Cartledge (University of Cambridge)

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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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 by Paul Cartledge (University of Cambridge)
Paul Cartledge (University of Cambridge)
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Cambridge University Press
2009-12-10
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