We are pleased to welcome Professor Kathryn Morgan, Chair of Classics at UCLA, to deliver this year’s keynote address.
Prof. Morgan received her BA degree from Bryn Mawr College and my PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. She joined the UCLA faculty in 1996. Her interests range broadly over Greek literature of the fifth and fourth centuries BC, including Attic tragedy, Pindar and Greek lyric, and Plato. Her publications include her 2000 book Myth and Philosophy from the Presocratics to Plato, and she writes on Plato in the series Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative (published by Brill). Pindar is the subject of her most recent book, Pindar and the Construction of Syracusan Monarchy in the Fifth Century B.C. (Oxford and New York, 2015), in which she examine Pindar’s victory odes for Hieron of Syracuse and the program of tyrannical self-representation to which they contribute.
