Dr. John Weisweiler, University of Chicago: The Purpose and Meaning of Symmachus' Correspondence
Friday, March 4th, 2011
5 pm
Eaton Humanities 150
Reception to follow in HUMN 350.
John Weisweiler has studied at the Universities of Zurich and Heidelberg and at Pembroke and St. John’s College, Cambridge, where he recently finished his dissertation on the late Roman aristocracy. He is currently a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Chicago and has already published several important articles on the history of Late Antiquity. He will speak about Rome’s quintessential late antique senator, Q. Aurelius Symmachus and his voluminous correspondence, one of our best sources for the history of the city of Rome in the fourth century AD.
This is a free public lecture presented by the Department of Classics. Everyone is welcome.
5 pm
Eaton Humanities 150
Reception to follow in HUMN 350.
John Weisweiler has studied at the Universities of Zurich and Heidelberg and at Pembroke and St. John’s College, Cambridge, where he recently finished his dissertation on the late Roman aristocracy. He is currently a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Chicago and has already published several important articles on the history of Late Antiquity. He will speak about Rome’s quintessential late antique senator, Q. Aurelius Symmachus and his voluminous correspondence, one of our best sources for the history of the city of Rome in the fourth century AD.
This is a free public lecture presented by the Department of Classics. Everyone is welcome.
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