We are delighted to announce the next session of Phusis kai phuta‘s webinars on nature and plants in ancient Greece.
It will take place on Friday April 16 at 4pm Paris/10am EDT (2pm GMT)
Mark Usher (The University of Vermont) will present on: Plant-based Dietetics in the City for Pigs (Republic 69b-376e)
Abstract
This paper explores that part of Plato’s Republic where Glaucon likens Socrates’s “First City” (the prōtē polis at 372e) — a polity he describes as “true” (alēthēs),and “healthy” (hugiēs), one characterized by communitarian values and vegetarian simplicity – to a city fit only for pigs (huōn polis). It seeks partially to answer two questions: Why pigs? And, relatedly, why the plant-based diet, which is so much at the forefront of thinking these days about sustainable living in the new climatic regime?
The seminar will take place on zoom. Everyone is welcome to attend, free registration is required. Please email the organisers at abuccheri@chs.harvard.edu, lwash@uchicago.edu, or amace@univ-fcomte.fr: we will be happy to share the seminar link with you. If you have already registered for any prior meetings, you will automatically receive an invitation for this and future meetings.