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Vermeule will speak on "Greeks and Barbarian: the Classical Experience in the Larger World" in Washington on May 5 The lecture, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is accompanied by a $10,000 prize.
She said she will discuss in her lectures how the ancient Greeks interacted with the less-civilized peoples around them, the subject of a course she gave last year. Classical Archaeology 137, "Greeks and Barbarians."
She grew more rambunctious in high school-"spraying my hair orange and getting thrown out of movie theaters"-and then, as an acting major at S.M.U., discovered classical drama. Reading Chekhov, Beckett, Shaw and King Lear, "the veils of the mind lifted," she says. "This was alive theater, someone bringing...
Indeed, the four floors of the historic west wing, labored over by 2,000 construction workers and hundreds of special craftsmen, do gleam with turn-of-the-century opulence. From 6,000 sq. ft. of marble mosaic floors, up monumental stairways, past trompe I'oeil wall panels, rich brocaded...
Divided into four long essays, the book searches for a new understanding of justice in modern society, especially in the context of economic life. Posner begins by discrediting the legacy of classical utilitarianism has bequethed philosophers. Posner believes that Bentham's call for the greatest happiness for the greatest number...