The Classics Lectures Series Presents: Dr. Egbert Bakker

Join the Classics Department as they invite Dr. Egbert Bakker to give a guest lecture, "In and Out of the Golden Age: The Temporality of Odysseus' Return." The lecture will take place on Tuesday, April 29, 2014 at 5:30 p.m. in room 104 Van Hise Hall. This event is free and open to the public!

Egbert Bakker is Professor of Classics at Yale University, having previously taught at the University of Texas at Austin and Universite de Montreal. His scholarship has revolutionized the study of ancient Greek texts, particularly the Homeric poems, through the application of methodologies drawn from linguistics and from the study of oral poetics (Linguistics and Formulas in Homer, 1988: Poetry in Speech: Orality and Homeric Discourse, 1997; Pointing at the Past: From Formula to Performance in Homeric Poetics, 2005). Most recently he has embraced anthropological methodologies and research, in an ecological reading of meat and consumption in Homer (The Meaning of Meat and the Structure of the Odyssey, 2013)."

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