ClassicsNow 23: Shadi Bartsch and Mary Beard

In Conversation: Shadi Bartsch is an award-winning Classicist and the Helen A. Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago, where she directs the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge. She works on Roman imperial literature, the history of rhetoric and philosophy, and on the reception of the Western classical tradition in contemporary China. Her fascinating book, Plato Goes to China: the Greek Classics and Chinese Nationalism, is just published. She will discuss interpretations of Plato and Aristotle in China today and competing versions of antiquity with renowned Classics scholar and broadcaster, Professor Mary Beard.

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