A lecture by Professor Joseph Farrell

Thursday, April 12 at 7:00pm in Griffin 7

small bronze bust of Juno Etruscan, 300-100 BCE London, British Museum.

Joseph Farrell is the Joseph B. Glossberg Term Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Latin Language and Latin Culture from Ancient to Modern Times. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001) and Vergil’s Georgics and the Traditions of Ancient Epic. The Art of Allusion in Literary History. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), and recently co-edited (with Michael Putnam) A Companion to Vergil’s Aeneid and its Tradition. (Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.)

Professor Farrell is currently at work on a book about Juno’s Aeneid, from which his lecture will be drawn, as well as another project, co-edited with Damien Nelis, on the treatment of the Roman republic in poetry of the Augustan period. He has served a term as associate dean of Arts and Letters at Penn, as well as associate dean of Graduate Studies in the School of Arts and Sciences and he is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, several of them for bringing new digital technologies to the study of ancient texts.