Dr. Alexander Beecroft
Jessie Chapman Alcorn Memorial Professor of Foreign Languages at the University of South Carolina
How does Chinese poetry help us to understand the Greeks better? And vice versa? By looking at the forms, themes, and interpretation of the earliest Chinese poems, in this lecture we will gain insights into how to think about Greek poetry, and particularly archaic lyric.
Professor Beecroft teaches courses in Greek and Latin language and literature, ancient
civilizations, literary theory (ancient and modern), and the theory and practice of
world literature. His major areas of research interest are in the literatures of Ancient
Greece and Rome, pre-Tang Chinese literature, and current debates about world literature.
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