Classics Fest 2025 Satellite Lectures | Reconstructing the Cosmos
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Friday 9th May | 1pm
Reconstructing the Cosmos with Hesiod
Lecture by Professor Athanassios Vergados, Professor of Greek at Newcastle University.
This talk discusses Hesiod’s attempt to reconstruct the creation and evolution of the cosmos from its very beginning to the establishment of Zeus’s rule and, in a second step, what is the place of humans in Zeus’s world.
Professor Athanassios Vergados | Image provided by promoter
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