[Editor], 'Symposium for Arthur Adkins'
URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/bmcr/bmcr-9403-[editor]-symposium


ETHICS, LITERATURE, AND LAW:

A Symposium in Honor of the 65th Birthday of Arthur W. H. Adkins, 
Professor of Classics, Early Christian Literature, Philosophy, and the
Ancient Mediterranean World, University of Chicago

APRIL 8 - 9, 1994

All sessions are held in Harper 130, 1116 East 59th Street, Chicago, Illinois
60637 at the University of Chicago.

FRIDAY, APRIL 8

Afternoon Session 
Chair: James Redfield, Classics and Social Thought,
University of Chicago

2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
*The Relation of Justice and Farming in Hesiod's Works and Days* 
Stephanie Nelson, Classics, Valparaiso University
Respondent:  David Grene, Social Thought, University of Chicago

4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
*Women of Trachis*
Bernard Williams, Philosophy, University of Oxford and University of California,
Berkeley
Respondent:  Robert Louden, Philosophy, University of Southern Maine

SATURDAY, APRIL 9

Morning Session 
Chair:  Hans Dieter Betz, New Testament and Early Christian
Literature, Divinity School, University of Chicago

9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
*Heroic Virtue in America:  Aristotle, Aquinas, and Melville's Billy Budd*
Lee Yearley, Religious Studies, Stanford University
Respondent:  Wendy Doniger, Divinity School, South Asian Languages and
Civilizations, and Social Thought, University of Chicago

11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
*Plato's Crito*
James Boyd White, Law School, English, University of Michigan
Respondent:  Charles Gray, History, Law School, University of Chicago

Afternoon Session 
Chair:  Christopher Bobonich, Philosophy, University of
Chicago

2:00-3:30 p.m.
*Moral Imperatives and Intrinsic Values*
Paul Schollmeier, Philosophy, University of Nevada
Respondent:  Candace Vogler, Philosophy, University of Chicago

4:00-5:30 p.m.
*Platonic Love and Colorado Law:  The Relevance of Ancient Greek Norms to
Modern Sexual Controversies*
Martha Nussbaum, Philosophy and Classics, Brown University
Respondent:  Richard Posner, Law School, University of Chicago

There is no registration fee.

For further information, please contact the Classics Department, University
of Chicago, 1050 East 59th St., Chicago IL 60637, tel: 312 702-8514; email:
camw@midway.uchicago.edu; or call the Philosophy Department, University of
Chicago, at 312-702-8513; or contact Elizabeth Asmis, email:
e-asmis@uchicago.edu