Richard Martin to deliver Sather lectures at Berkeley in the Fall

Richard Martin, who has been named the 101st Visiting Sather Professor of Classical Literature, Fall 2014, at the University of California, Berkeley, will deliver six lectures in October and early November in a series entitled "Comic Community: Laughter and Loathing in Athens." The Sather lectures will cover a variety of topics around the central theme of community and the festival of the theater in Athenian society. Professor Martin is an expert in the interpretation of Greek literature through the lens of performance and social groups. For more details about his upcoming lectures, see the link below.