Ann Bergren
in conjunction with the Timaeus Conference
Professor of Classics, UCLA, Los Angeles
Friday, September 14, 2007
6:00 P.M. - Lawrence J. Plym Auditorium
Temple Hoyne Buell Hall
Max Abramovitz Distinguished Lecture
Ann Bergren is the author of The Etymology and Usage of PEIRAR in Early Greek Poetry. A Study in the Interrelationship of Metrics, Linguistics and Poetics. American Classical Studies, No. 2. American Philological Association, New York, 1975. A collection of her papers, Weaving Truth. Essays on Language and the Female in Greek Thought, will be published by the Center for Hellenic Studies, distributed by Harvard University Press, in 2006. Her website includes a bibliography of her writing about Classical thought in relation to contemporary architectural theory and practice. The website address is: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/people/annbergren/
Among her undergraduate courses are: "Body House City Cosmos: The Construction of the Female in Greek Thought," "The Archaic Greek Symposium," "Plato's Republic: Dionysus and Philosophy," and "Aristotle's Anthropos." At the graduate level, she teaches seminars on Homer, Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, Greek lyric poetry, Aristophanes, and Literary Theory.
From: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/classics/faculty/regular/Bergren.htm
