Ancient Greek and Chinese Poetry | Prof. Alexander Beecroft

How does Chinese poetry help us to understand the Greeks better? And vice versa? By looking at the forms, themes, and interpretation of the earliest Chinese poems, in this lecture, we will gain insights into how to think about Greek poetry and particularly archaic lyric.

Alexander Beecroft is the Jessie Chapman Alcorn Memorial Professor of Foreign Languages at the University of South Carolina. He teaches courses in Greek and Latin language and literature, ancient civilizations, literary theory (ancient and modern), and the theory and practice of world literature. His major areas of research interest are the literature of Ancient Greece and Rome, pre-Tang Chinese literature, and current debates about world literature