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Lekcijas kopsavilkums:
SPARTA, ATHENS, LAND, SEA
The intention is to explore, in words and in images, the disparity between two major players in the southern Haemus peninsula (‘Old Greece’) in classical times, Athens and Sparta. The approach will be via geopolitical, economic, cultural and psychological factors, and the key will be the antithesis between land and sea as understood in antiquity (and which may find some echoes in the history of the Baltic States). The spotlight will be on the Spartan position, this for several reasons, the chief of which is that Athens, home of democracy (though this has also been argued in favour of Sparta!) and cradle of philosophy and the arts, receives disproportionate coverage. Though no attempt will be made to deal with the reception of Sparta in later times, the main analysis will be extended to look at some central themes in Spartan history – agriculture, self-sufficiency, isolation – as they recurred in the Byzantine period.
 ir klasiskais filologs, kas beidzis Kembridžas universitātes Trīsvienības koledžu Lielbritānijā. No 1989. gada dzīvo Atēnās, Grieķijā. Pasniedzis ar klasisko senatni saistītus kursus Ņujorkas Valsts universitātes programmā un Britu atvērtās universitātes tālmācības programmā. Šobrīd pensijā.
R. Vita Lekcija notiks trešdien, 20. novembrī, plkst. 16.30, 205. telpā. Lekcija tiks lasīta angļu valodā un ilgs apmēram 45 min.
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