Dartmouth College Professor of Classics James Tatum will present the classics department's Winslow Lecture, "Literacy and Liberation: African-American Writers and The Classical Tradition," on Thursday, Feb. 26, at 4:10 p.m. in the Science Auditorium.
Tatum graduated from Weatherford College and went on to receive his M.A. and Ph.D. in classics from Princeton University. He has authored several books, including Plautus: The Darker Comedies, Xenophon's Imperial Fiction: On the Education of Cyrus, The Ancient Novel: Classical Paradigms and Modern Perspectives and The Search for the Ancient Novel. Tatum's most recent book is The Mourner's Song: War and Remembrance From The Iliad To Vietnam. Tatum teaches courses in Greek and Latin literature, Ancient Fiction, The Classical Tradition, and Roman Comedy at Dartmouth.
The Tatum lecture is funded by the Winslow Lecture Fund, which was established through a bequest from William Copley Winslow, Class of 1862, to support lectures on classics and archaeology.
