CU Boulder Classics Department Presents: How Plato Wrecked Syracuse: A Story of Philosophy Gone Wrong

Name: CU Boulder Classics Department Presents: How Plato Wrecked Syracuse: A Story of Philosophy Gone Wrong
Start: 2026-03-05T18:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-03-05
Location: Norlin Library

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Thursday, March 5, 2026 6pm

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Norlin Library, Center for British & Irish Studies M549 View map Free Event

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1157 18th Street, Boulder, CO 80309

https://www.colorado.edu/classics/2026/02/16/2026-celia-m-fountain-lecture-how-plato-wrecked-syracuse-story-philosophy-gone-wrong

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2026 Celia M. Fountain Lecture

FREE EVENT with JAMES ROMM, James H. Ottoway, Jr. Professor of Classics at Bard College

Join us with James Romm as we uncover the surprisingly messy, human side of the West's most famous thinker, Pluto, and his rather ill-fated political experiment in Syracuse.

*The Fountain Lecture is free and open to the public

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https://www.colorado.edu/classics/202...

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Classics

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