The Use and Abuse of Terence in Late Antiquity

Andrew Cain, Associate Professor of Classics
University of Colorado

will give a talk on “The Use and Abuse of Terence in Late Antiquity”
Thursday, February 16, 2012
3:00 p.m.
Smathers Library, Room 1A

Terence was a comic Roman playwright who lived around 189-159 B.C.E.  His plays were noted for their humanity and the moral sentiments they inspired.  More about him here: http://www.oxford-greecerome.com/entry?entry=t294.e1226&srn=1&ssid=92665018#FIRSTHIT

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Cain (Ph.D. Cornell 2003) specializes in patristic and early medieval Latin literature but studies and teaches Latin literature from the Classical period to the Renaissance. He is the author of four books: The Letters of Jerome: Asceticism, Biblical Exegesis and the Construction of Christian Authority in Late Antiquity (Oxford 2009); St. Jerome, Commentary on Galatians (Cath. Univ. of Amer. Press, 2010); Remembering Paula: A Commentary on Jerome’s Epitaphium Sanctae Paulae (forthcoming with Oxford); and Jerome and the Monastic Clergy: A Commentary on Letter 52 to Nepotian (forthcoming with Brill). He has co-edited two books: The Power of Religion in Late Antiquity (Ashgate, 2009) and Jerome of Stridon: His Life, Writings and Legacy (Ashgate, 2009). Prof. Cain is completing a literary-theological study of the [Greek] Historia Monachorum in Aegypto and is also working concurrently on two other books, A Latin Patristic Reader and a commentary on Gregory Nazianzen’s funeral oration for Basil.

Sponsored by the Department of History, the University of Florida Libraries and the Rothman Distinguished Lectures in Classics.