The Science and Empire Reading Group

The Science and Empire Reading Group meets every fortnight during semester, and brings together Classicists, Historians, Philosophers and Scientists. The participants rotate in making small, informal presentations on select ancient scientific, technical and encyclopedic texts. The emphasis is on close reading and group discussion.

Spring Semester 2010

Wednesdays, 1-2 pm, School of Classics
Room: S11
Topic: Plutarch

Timetable

Note that all sessions take place weekly (starting week 3; no meeting week 10).

Recommended translations
(apart from the Loeb editions of the Lives and Moralia)

Plutarch, Greek Lives, ed. P. A. Stadter, transl. R. Waterfield, Oxford (World’s Classics) 1998.

Plutarch, Roman Lives, ed. P. A. Stadter, transl. R. Waterfield, Oxford (World’s Classics) 1999.

Plutarch, Essays, introd. I. Kidd, transl. R. Waterfield, London (Penguin) 1992.

For more information, please contact:
Katerina Oikonomopoulou (ao40@st-andrews.ac.uk)

Previous years' reading groups

2008-2009

2007-2008