03-22-94 German Professor to Lecture

HEIDELBERG PROFESSOR TO LECTURE ON ANCIENT GREECE

     COLUMBUS -- The link between ancient Greece and the
establishment of the national identities of Germany and other
countries in the 19th century will be examined in a lecture April
4 at The Ohio State University.

     Glenn W. Most, professor at the University of Heidelberg in
Germany, will discuss "Ancient Greece as Utopia:  The Use and
Abuse of Classical Antiquity" at 3:30 p.m. in 101A Oxley Hall,
1712 Neil Ave.  The lecture is free and open to the public.
Parking will be available in the 11th Avenue Parking Garage.

     The lecture by Most, a G. Micheal Riley International
Scholar, is sponsored by the College of Humanities through the G.
Micheal Riley International Academic Fund.  Riley, a professor of
history, is former dean of the college.

     Most will examine the role that utopian images of ancient
Greece played in helping to establish modern national identities
in the 19th century, especially in Germany, and look at the
problematic, but intimate, relationship between such
idealizations, historical scholarship, and educational curricula.

     Most has published extensively and lectured widely on
comparative literature, philosophy, and classical philology, the
study of literature, linguistics and human speech.  He received a
doctorate in comparative literature from Yale University and
another doctorate from the University of Tubingen.  Recently, he
was awarded the Leibniz Prize, Germany's highest academic honor.

     Books he has written or edited include The Measures of
Praise: Structure and Function in Pindar's Second Pythian and
Seventh Nemean Odes; an edition of the Metaphysics of
Teophrastus; and The Poetics of Murder: Detective Fiction and
Literary Theory, which he edited with W. W. Stowe.
                                
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Contact:  Gail Summerhill, College of Humanities,
          (614) 292-1882.


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