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Palermo April 7, 2005 - David O'Connor, University of Notre Dame

"Rewriting the Poets in Plato's Characters"

Plato's Republic is notorious for its censorship of the poets, especially Homer and Hesiod. But Plato also...

Catania April 7, 2005 - Palermo April 9, 2005 - David O'Connor, University of Notre Dame

"Saints and Heroes: J.R.R. Tolkien in Book and Movie"

Peter Jackson's splendid movies of The Lord of the Rings will remain the most influential interpretation of Tolkien for many years. Yet the movie...

Palermo April 11, 2005 - David O'Connor, University of Notre Dame

"Androgyny, Intimacy, and Conception in Plato's Symposium"

Despite their surface focus on male erotic experience, the speeches of Aristophanes and Socrates in Plato's Symposium in fact celebrate...