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McClanahan Lecture: Phocion the Good and Philippe Pétain, Marshal of France: Parallel Lives?

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McClanahan Lecture: Phocion the Good and Philippe Pétain, Marshal of France: Parallel Lives? Anonymous (not verified) Sun, 04/09/2023 - 23:44

Phocion the Good and Philippe Pétain, Marshal of France: Parallel Lives?

Professor Peter Hunt

Thursday, April 20, 7:00 p.m.
Hale Science Building Room 230 & Zoom (REGISTER HERE)
Free and open to the public
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ABSTRACT

This lecture imagines how the Greek biographer Plutarch might write a Parallel Lives of an ancient and a modern stateman: Phocion the Good was a fourth-century Athenian statesman, who capped his long career under the democracy with a leading position in an oligarchy imposed by the Macedonians; Philippe Pétain, the hero of Verdun in the first World War, collaborated with the Nazis after the defeat of France in the Second World War. Both Phocion and Pétain ended their political lives on trial and then condemned by their own people. This thought experiment can help us better understand the structure, methods, and ethical goals of Plutarch’s Parallel Lives.

P eter Hunt (Ph.D. Stanford 1994) a classical Greek historian, studies warfare and society, slavery, historiography and oratory. He is the author of three books: Slaves, Warfare and Ideology in the Greek Historians (Cambridge 1998), War, Peace, and Alliance in Demosthenes' Athens (Cambridge 2010), and Ancient Greek and Roman Slavery (Wiley Blackwell 2018). Among other current projects, he is beginning work on a commentary on Plutarch’s Phocion.

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McClanahan Lecture: Fugitive Slaves

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McClanahan Lecture: Fugitive Slaves Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 11/13/2019 - 00:00

McClanahan Lecture Series

Fugitive slaves in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds

Dr. Peter Hunt, ��«��Ƶ

Wednesday, November 13th I 7 p.m. I HUMN 150

Free and open to the public

Parking available just north of the Eaton Humanities building

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Greek and Roman Slavery in Spring 2019

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Greek and Roman Slavery in Spring 2019 Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 12/17/2018 - 13:48

Professor Peter Hunt
Clas/Hist 4071 Ancient Social History:
Ancient Greek and Roman Slavery
Clare 208; TR 9:30-10:45

Topics include enslavement, the economics and politics of slavery, slaves' sex and family lives, manumission and ex-slaves, everyday resistance, gladiators and the great slave revolts, and the decline and legacy of ancient slavery. We'll also explore slavery's role in classical culture including literary representations of slaves and philosophical and legal responses to slavery.

Almost forty metal Roman slave collars have been found. Their inscriptions often included, “I am a runaway. Seize me,” identified the master, and promised a reward for the return of the slave. All date to the late Roman empire and a number suggest Christian slaveholders. One plausible explanation for the late dates is that Christians considered it blasphemous to disfigure a person’s face with a brand or tattoo, previously a common punishment and way to discourage slaves from running away. When this practice was outlawed under Constantine (Theodosian Code 9.40.2), good Christian slaveholders substituted slave collars, which, unlike tattoos, can survive to be found by archaeologists.

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McClanahan Lecture: Phocion the Good and Philippe Pétain, Marshal of France: Parallel Lives?

Phocion the Good and Philippe Pétain, Marshal of France: Parallel Lives?

Professor Peter Hunt

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McClanahan Lecture: Fugitive Slaves

McClanahan Lecture Series

Fugitive slaves in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds

Dr. Peter Hunt, ��«����Ƶ

Wednesday, November 13th I 7 p.m. I HUMN 150

Free and open to the public

Parking available just north of the Eaton Humanities building

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Greek and Roman Slavery in Spring 2019

Professor Peter Hunt Clas/Hist 4071 Ancient Social History: Ancient Greek and Roman Slavery Clare 208; TR 9:30-10:45

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Dr. Peter Hunt, ��«��Ƶ

Professor Peter Hunt
Clas/Hist 4071 Ancient Social History:
Ancient Greek and Roman Slavery
Clare 208; TR 9:30-10:45