Collaborator, Translator, Constructor
This third lecture in the series lays out several ways the study of antiquities may still be understood as mattering for the public today, focusing on the process of scholarship and specifically the acts laid out in the title and tackling some of the most pressing challenges to the construction of “classics” now. The Penn Public Lectures aim to advance the public good in the United States through lively, rigorous, and timely engagement with the classical past.