Join us for our next talk on Wednesday, April 16, at 3:30 PM in UMC 415-417.

The talk will be live-streamed, recorded, and made available on the RFA webpage. We anticipate lively discussions inspired by the diverse topics explored.

A talk by Asssistant Professor Yvona Trink-Amrhein & Professor John Gilbert

Department of Classics 

The extraordinary story of the translation of a papyrus fragment recently excavated from the necropolis of Philadelphia in ancient Egypt. The papyrus contains sections of two lost plays of Euripides.    

April 16th, 3:30 PM University Memorial Center (UMC) 415-417 
Please register to attend: https://forms.office.com/r/RVKstnXgp5 

Speaker Bios: 

Dr. Yvona Trnka-Amrhein (Ph.D. Harvard 2013) studies Greek literature of the Hellenistic and Imperial periods, especially the novel, biography, and history. She is particularly interested in interactions between Greek, Latin, and Egyptian literature and culture as well as the effect of empire on literature. Trained as a literary papyrologist, Dr. Trnka-Amrhein has edited several Oxyrhynchus papyri and her work is often directed to interpreting fragmentary texts on papyrus.  

John Gibert (Ph.D. Harvard 1991) studies Greek poetry, especially tragedy and comedy. His annotated edition of Euripides’ Ion for the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics is in press, and he has recently completed articles on Ion, Medea, and “Euripides and the Development of Greek Tragedy.” He is author of Change of Mind in Greek Tragedy ( Gottingen, 1995) and co-author (with C. Collard and M.J. Cropp) of Euripides: Selected Fragmentary Plays II (Oxbow, 2004).