93-10-21 Edward Courtney, the New Gildersleeve Professor of Classics at U.Va., will lecture in Rotunda Oct. 27

EDWARD COURTNEY, THE NEW GILDERSLEEVE PROFESSOR OF CLASSICS AT
U.VA., WILL LECTURE IN ROTUNDA OCT. 27

     CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Oct. 21 -- Edward Courtney, an
internationally recognized classics scholar who recently joined the
faculty of the University of Virginia as the first Basil L.
Gildersleeve Professor of Classics, will deliver a special lecture
inaugurating the professorship at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 27, in the
Rotunda Dome Room.
     Courtney, a native of Belfast, Northern Ireland, and a former
chairman of the classics department at Stanford University, will
speak on "A Multicultural Encounter:  The Greek Influence on Roman
Culture."  The lecture is open to the public.
     The Gildersleeve professorship is named for Basil Lanneau
Gildersleeve, the preeminent American classicist of the 19th
century who taught as a member of the University's classics
department for two decades.  In addition to the professorship,
Gildersleeve fellowships for graduate study abroad and in residence
have also been established through an endowment from the estates of
Katherine Lane Weems and Emma Gildersleeve Lane, descendants of
Basil Gildersleeve.
     Courtney, who has written numerous books and articles on Roman
literature, was educated at Trinity College in Dublin and at Oxford
University.  Before joining the faculty at Stanford in 1982, he
taught at King's College, London.
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                                                 October 20, 1993
    

 
Karen Castle, Office Services Specialist, University News Office
P.O. Box 9018, Booker House, Charlottesville, VA  22906
(804) 924-7116, kac@virginia.edu

[Submitted by: Karen A. Castle  (kac@uva.pcmail.virginia.edu)
               Thu, 21 Oct 93 09:28:08 EDT]