EVENT: A talk on “The Mask of Oedipus and the Mystery of Human Life”

SPEAKER: Professor Josh Beer

DATE: Thursday, November 22, 2012, at 7:30 pm

LOCATION: Glebe Community Centre, 175 Third Avenue, Ottawa ON K1S 2J9

BIOGRAPHY: Professor Beer retired in 2011 after 45 years teaching Greek and Roman Studies at Carleton University. He still teaches part-time and writes about Greek drama. In 2004 his book Sophocles and the Tragedy of Athenian Democracy was published; he is currently writing the entry on Sophocles for the Literary Encyclopedia, designed to be the most extensive on-line literary encyclopedia in the world. For the past eleven years, he has produced annually semi-staged performances of Greek tragedies for the College of Humanities at Carleton.