Alumni & Donors Lecture with Special Guest Professor Simon Goldhill
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The Department of Classics welcomes Professor Simon Goldhill (King's College, Cambridge) as our speaker for the 2025 Alumni & Donors Lecture!
Join us on Friday, April 4th, 2025 at 5PM for Professor Goldhill's lecture, titled "All About Eve," with a reception to follow.
Registration is required for this event: Registration Form.
Description:
Touch is a touchy subject. Literature touches us; but inappropriate touching is a scandal. Aristotle said touch is the only sense animals like us cannot be without. Jesus said to Mary Magdalen 'Don't touch me' — or did he? This talk will look at what ancient religion made of touch, what the difference is between Greek and Latin (and Hebrew) versions of 'touching', and what theologians, poets and artists have made of it since.
