NYU Lecture, "Dying Angry: The Wrath of Socrates in Plato's Phaedo," Oct. 4
Tuesday, Sep 25, 2007
N-57, 2007-08
New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study will host “Dying Angry: The Wrath of Socrates in Plato’s Phaedo,” a lecture by Harry Berger, Jr., on Thurs., Oct. 4, 5 p.m. at NYU’s Bronfman Center (7 East 10th St., 2nd Fl., Main Room).
Berger, a professor emeritus of literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz and author of Second World and Green World: Studies in Renaissance Fiction Making; is currently working on a book on Plato. The Phaedo details the final days of Socrates, in which he discusses the nature of the afterlife.
For more on Berger, go to: http://www.nyu.edu/gallatin/pdf/dying-angry.pdf
The public may RSVP to Rachel Plutzer at rachel.plutzer@nyu.edu.
- WHAT: Lecture—“Dying Angry: The Wrath of Socrates in Plato’s Phaedo”
- WHO: Harry Berger, Jr., professor emeritus of literature, the University of California, Santa Cruz
- WHEN: Thurs., Oct. 4, 5 p.m.
- WHERE: NYU’s Bronfman Center (7 East 10th St., 2nd Fl., Main Room)
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