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Athens, a Democracy of Virtue  

CDDRL, PGJ Workshop

Date and Time
April 11, 2008
1:15 PM - 3:00 PM

Availability
Open to the public
RSVP required by 5PM April 10


Participant
Ryan Balot - Associate Professor of Political Science at University of Toronto


Professor Balot specializes in the history of political thought.

Balot is the author of Greed and Injustice in Classical Athens (Princeton, 2001) and of Greek Political Thought (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006). He is currently at work on Courage and Its Critics in Democratic Athens, from which he has published articles in the American Journal of Philology, Classical Quarterly, and Social Research. Balot is also editor of the forthcoming Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought (Oxford: Blackwell, forthcoming 2007).

Balot received his doctorate in Classics at Princeton University and his B.A. degrees in Classics from UNC-Chapel Hill and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.

Topics: Democracy | History

Location
Encina Ground Floor Conference Room
Encina Hall
616 Serra St., E008 (Ground floor)
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
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FSI Contact
Kathleen Barcos