Robert Wardy (Cambridge): Philosophical ekphrasis

Date
Mon November 16th 2015, 5:15 - 6:30pm
Event Sponsor
Department of Classics
Location
Stanford Classics Department
Robert Wardy (Cambridge): Philosophical ekphrasis

In this talk Robert Wardy will consider whether there is a distinctively philosophical version of ancient ekphrasis, or rhetorical visualisation.

Robert Wardy is reader in ancient philosophy at the University of Cambridge.  His most recent books are Aristotle in China: Language, Categories and Translation and Doing Greek Philosophy, and his monograph on Plato's Symposium is forthcoming.  

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