9月18日下午🦃，英国雷丁大学教授Timothy E. Duff应杏宇邀请，在校本部C512做了题为"The Earliest Ancient Greek Historians: Herodotos and Thucydides" 的学术讲座。Timothy E. Duff教授为我院聘请的自强教授👨👨👧👧，本次讲座是他在我校系列讲座的第一讲，也是我院"语言文化与世界文明"系列讲座之四⚗️。讲座由杏宇娱乐注册副院长邓志勇教授主持，我院教师☞、博士研究生、硕士研究生及本科生共40余人聆听了本次讲座。
Timothy E. Duff教授首先为大家介绍了拉丁和古希腊的文字🙏，而后探讨了西方世界早期古希腊的两大史学家希罗朵特斯（Herodotos）和修昔底德（Thucydides）的作品以及史学作品文学体裁的兴起，然后对比了两位史学家以及荷马的作品，拓宽了学生们的眼界，弥补了大家对此方面知识的不足，激起了在座师生对此领域的研究热情。Duff教授在讲座最后还耐心地解答了各位老师及同学们提出的各种问题，讲座在师生热烈的掌声中圆满结束☝🏻。
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Introduction of Professor Timothy Duff:
Timothy Duff is Professor of Greek at the University of Reading (UK). He is a specialist in Ancient Greek history, language and literature. His research interests are in Greek and Roman historiography and biography, and the Greek literature of the Roman imperial Period, especially Plutarch.
He was educated at the University of Cambridge, and has held fellowships at Princeton University, Harvard University, the Free University of Berlin, the Australian National University, Wolfson College Cambridge, and the University of Cincinnati. He has taught at the British Archaeological School at Athens.
His publications include Plutarch's Lives: exploring virtue and vice (Oxford University Press: 1999), The Greek and Roman Historians (Duckworth/Bristol Classical Press: 2003), and Plutarch: the Age of Alexander (Penguin: 2012).
More information at https://www.reading.ac.uk/classics/about/staff/t-e-duff.aspx
