The NYU Center for Ancient Studies, the Department of Comparative Literature and the American Comparative Literature Association present
The Sophistic Practice

A plenary panel session; part of the ACLA’s 2014 Annual Meeting taking place at NYU, March 20-23, 2014.

CHAIR:
Emanuela Bianchi (NYU)

PANELISTS:
Sophistics or How to Really Do Things with Words
Barbara Cassin (CNRS/Paris Sorbonne/ENS Ulm)
Euripides: Sophistic Gods Playing with Their Traditional Images
Pietro Pucci (Cornell University)
(White) Lies of Their Times: Sophistic Rhetoric in Heliodorus’ Aithiopika
Susan Jarratt (University of California, Irvine)

Friday, March 21, 2014, 2:20pm-4:10pm
Jurow Lecture Hall, Silver Center for Arts and Science
32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair access)

This lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact the Center for Ancient Studies at 212.992.7978 or at ancient.studies@nyu.edu