Location
Online
Ancient Studies Week Lecture with Dr. Jackie Murray – Online Event
Date & Time
October 8, 2020, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Description
This event is free and open to the public.
Racecraft in the Odyssey and Argonautica
ANCIENT STUDIES DEPARTMENT presents
Racecraft in the Odyssey and Argonautica
Jackie Murray, Associate Professor of Classics, University of Kentucky
Although products of a different time and place, the ancient epic poems,
Homer’s Odyssey and Apollonius’ Argonatuica, can help us think
about the logic and practices of racial supremacy today. Their status
as classics venerated for millennia in western culture has embedded
their value systems deeply in modern racism. This talk offers readings
of these texts that uncover the forces that created racial supremacist
ideology and the ways that ancient epic storytelling reinforced and
naturalized it. Dr. Jackie Murray will expose how ancient epic
depictions of enslavement and collective extermination reinforce the
oppressive hierarchies of colonialism and imperialism linked to heroic
action.
Sponsored by the Ancient Studies Department and the Dresher Center for the Humanities
Photo provided by speaker
This event will be recorded and made available on our Youtube channel.
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is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive environment for
all faculty, staff, students, and visitors. Closed captioning will be
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