4. Us and them
Fourth lecture of Professor Dame Mary Beard's Gifford Lecture series
Event details
Date: Monday 27 May 2019, 5.30 - 6.30pm
The lecture may be followed by questions. Latest finishing time is 7pm.
Venue: The Gordon Aikman Lecture Theatre, George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9LH
Lecture abstract
This lecture explores various forms of exclusion and inclusion in antiquity, from slave versus free to women versus men. Can we ever understand how that might have seemed "natural"? And what does it tell us about our own exclusions? Given the drastic disparities in power, wealth and influence that underpinned all ancient cultures, in what sense can they ever be seen as a model of inclusion and "toleration"?