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Life on the streets of ancient Athens is topic of guest lecture at St. Olaf College

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May 1, 2001

NORTHFIELD, Minn. ? Street life in ancient Greece will be discussed in an illustrated talk by a guest lecturer at St. Olaf College on Thursday May 10.

Donald Lateiner, John R. Wright Chair of Humanities and Greek at Ohio Wesleyan University and Visiting Benedict Professor of Classics at Carleton College, will talk about "Streetlife: Honor and Insult in Ancient Athens." The lecture, free and open to the public, will be at 7:30 p.m. in the Gold Ballroom of Buntrock Commons.

The talk is sponsored by the St. Olaf Department of Classics. It will be illustrated with slides, and refreshments will be served afterward.

Lateiner earned a bachelor?s degree in history from the University of Chicago, a master?s degree in history from Cornell University, and a Ph.D. in classics from Stanford University. During graduate school he spent a year as a Thomas Day Seymour fellow at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece.

In 1979, after teaching for seven years at the University of Pennsylvania, he joined the faculty of Ohio Wesleyan University. He has taught in Florence, Italy (for Syracuse University), and guided student and alumni tours to Greece and Turkey.

Lateiner has published two scholarly books, The Historical Method of Herodotus (University of Toronto Press, 1989) and Sardonic Smile: Nonverbal Behavior in Homeric Epic (University of Michigan Press, 1995). Sardonic Smile won the CHOICE award for outstanding academic press book of 1996. In addition, he has written many articles on Greek history, historiography and oratory; Greek and Latin epic poetry and prose fiction; and Latin lyric poetry.

An indefatigable teacher, reader, writer and book reviewer, Lateiner has delivered numerous professional papers and guest lectures. He and his wife live in Delaware, Ohio, and have two sons.

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St. Olaf College prepares students to become responsible citizens of the world, fostering development of mind, body and spirit. A four-year, coeducational liberal arts college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), St. Olaf has a student enrollment of 2,950 and a full-time faculty complement of approximately 300. It is one of Money Guide?s top 100 "elite values in college education today," and it leads the nation?s colleges in percentage of students who study abroad.

Contact Michael Cooper at 507-786-3315 or cooperm@stolaf.edu.