Local Event: The Ancient Spartans - A Very Peculiar Society?

The Dr. Nicholas Matsakis Memorial Lecture at the University of Missouri-St. Louis Professor Paul Cartledge, University of Cambridge

Paul Cartledge is widely acknowledged to be the world's leading expert on the subject of Sparta and the Spartans. He is a Professor of Greek History and the Chairman of the Classics Faculty at Cambridge University. Among the many articles and books he has written and edited are: Spartan Reflections, Sparta and Lakonia; Hellenistic and Roman Sparta, and The Greeks: A Portrait of Self and Others. He is academic consultant to the BBC and PBS for the series The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization.

A reception will precede his lecture at 7:00.