Thursday, November 9, 2023 

7pm EST 

Josh Beer

More musings, reminiscences and readings from Josh Beer.

Josh Beer is an adjunct professor at Carleton University, after having taught there for 50 years. On his retirement he founded and is currently a co-chair of OSFAS. His book Sophocles and the Tragedy of Athenian Democracy was published in 2004 and his article “Tradition and Ambiguity: Deceit and Heroic Action in Sophocles’ Electra” in 2020.  His latest article on the influence of the Athenian plague on Euripides’ Hippolytus was published in October 2022 in the magazine of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, Argo.  For over twelve years, he directed students of the College of Humanities in dramatic readings of Greek tragedy which were highly praised, not least by His Excellency Eleftherios Anghelopoulos, the former Greek Ambassador to Canada.