The Institute for Classical and Medieval Studies (ICMS) continues its spring 2019 Brown Bag Seminar Series on Wednesday, March 27 from 11:50 a.m. – 12:50 p.m. in Student Center room 207 with a presentation by Thomas Banchich, PhD, of the Classics and History Departments.
During his talk, Homeric Dolos and the Heroic Virtue of Dishonesty, Banchich will discuss how “[i]n the Odyssey, the word dolos signifies objects that do not look like what they actually are and the intellectual quality that helps create such deceitful objects. This presentation will consider dolos in the Odyssey and comparable notions in some modern ‘shame culture’ societies. It will suggest that Homer’s dolos is both a heroic virtue and a portent of the distinction between ‘appearance’ and ‘reality’ that becomes one of the distinctive features of later Greek thought.”
Be sure to bring a lunch and engage in this interesting and informal conversation. These talks are free and open to the public. For more information, visit the ICMS website.
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Submitted by: Kristina Laun, administrative associate, Institute for Classical and Medieval Studies
