The Committee of the Friends of the BSA is happy to announce a lecture by Robert Parker, Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford, on Tuesday 8 December at 5pm (UK) / 7pm (Greece).
‘New Discoveries and New Problems in Greek Religion’
For further information see here.
Robert Parker was Wykeham Professor of Ancient (Greek) History from 1996-2016 at New College, Oxford; before that (from 1976) Tutor in Greek and Latin Languages and Literature at Oriel College, Oxford. He gave the Towsend lectures in Cornell in 2008 and the Sather lectures in Berkeley in 2013. He studies Greek society from an anthropological perspective; in particular, he investigates how the Greeks’ thought and behaviour was shaped by their religious beliefs. Recently he has been studying the interaction of Greek religion with other polytheistic systems, particularly in Asia Minor.
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