Lecture: Richard Martin

Richard Martin will be giving a talk titled "Lost Boys and Lethal Toys: Attaining Manhood in Greek and Irish Saga" on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009 at 4:30pm in Higgins 300. Richard Martin teaches Greek and Latin literature at Stanford University. His research focuses primarily on Homeric poetry and how it functioned as a performance art in Ancient Greece. Born and raised in Boston, he studied Classics as well as Medieval and Modern Irish language and literature at Harvard University where he received his B.A. in Classics and Celtic Literature and M.A. and Ph.D. in Classical Philology. For information about this event, contact Franck Salameh (salameh@bc.edu). This talk is part of the Heinz Bluhm Lecture Series.

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