Dr. Frank Salmon, Lecturer in the History of Art and Fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge, delivers a lecture on the connections between the Classical architecture of antiquity and British architectural production in the eighteenth century.
Dr. David Mikics is John and Rebecca Moores Distinguished Professor in English and the Honors College at the University of Houston. His lecture “Emerson, Nietzsche, and the Romantic World” was given as part of the Fall 2013 Franke Lectures in the Humanities at the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale on September 26, 2013, a series organized in conjunction with the Yale College seminar taught by Paul North, Associate Professor of German, and Paul Grimstad, Assistant Professor of English.
Dr. Ross Posnock is Anna Garbedian Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University.
In addition to texts by the major Greek dramatists, Prof. Meineck considers non-dramatic works from the history and philosophy of the period, as well as the history of Athenian stagecraft, as part of a culture for which the scars of war were a factor of everyday life.Prof. Meineck is a Clinical Associate Professor of Classics at New York University as well as the founder and artist director of the Aquila Theatre Company, which brings Ancient and contemporary plays to the stage in a manner designed to appeal to the widest audience possible.
