Charles Gordon Mackay Lecture - Professor Gianfranco Agosti

Professor Gianfranco Agosti, La Sapienza, University of Rome will deliver the next Charles Gordon Mackay Lecture on 'Greek culture and identity in late antique inscriptions'. 

Professor Agosti

Gianfranco Agosti is Professor of Classical and Late Antique Philology. The central issues of this work are a re-evaluation of the relation between inscriptional poems and elite literature; an exploration of the social role of poems on stone as vehicles for the display and diffusion of both classical and Christian learning; and a re-consideration of verse inscriptions’ place in the urban space of late antique eastern Mediterranean cities. 

The event is free and open to all.