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Stahl Lecture Looks at The Iliad's Achilles April 4
Story posted March 28, 2005
Seth L. Schein, a specialist in the study of Greek epic and tragedy, will deliver the Stahl Lecture at 7:30 p.m., Monday, April 4, in Main Lounge, Moulton Union. Schein will give a talk titled "The Transformation of Achilles: Iliad 23.1-257 and 24.1-140."
The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information call 725-3782.
Seth L. Schein is the author of The Mortal Hero: An Introduction to Homer's Iliad (1984); Sophocles' Philoktetes: Translation, Introduction, Notes, and Interpretive Essay (2003); and The Iambic Trimeter in Aeschylus and Sophocles: A Study in Metrical Form (1979).
In addition, he is the editor of Reading the Odyssey: Selected Interpretive Essays (1996) and the author of numerous articles.
Schein is a professor of comparative literature at the University of California-Davis. His research and teaching interests also include Shakespeare, literary utopias, gender and interpretation and the history of literary theory.
Schein's lecture is sponsored by the Classics Department and the Jasper Jacob Stahl Lectureship in the Humanities. The Stahl Fund, established in 1970 by the bequest of Jasper Jacob Stahl '09, Litt.D. '60, supports lectures by distinguished scholars and gifted interpreters of the art, life, letters, philosophy or culture of the ancient world.