Harvard- and Oxford-Trained Classics Scholar to Speak at Seminary

Professor John C. B. Petropoulos, Director of Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Nafplion, Greece, will deliver a short lecture at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, October 6, 2017, at the auditorium of the Saint Photios Orthodox Theological Seminary in Etna. The lecture is free of charge and open to the community. He will speak on the relationship between ancient Greek culture and early Christianity and how these two factors in the development of Western Civilization confronted one another.

Dr. Petropoulos, an Adjunct Professor at the Seminary, has been in Etna for several weeks, teaching a seminar for graduate students. He has kindly consented to offer a public lecture on the eve of his departure for Greece, where he also holds a Professorship in Ancient Greek Literature at the Democritean University of Thrace.

A graduate of Harvard University, Professor Petropoulos earned his doctoral degree in Classics at Oxford University. His latest book, published by the Harvard University Press, is Kleos in a Minor Key: The Homeric Education of a Little Prince. He also recently co-authored a book on the Classics and Christianity, The Sculptor and His Stone: Selected Readings on Hellenistic and Christian Learning and Thought in the Early Greek Fathers, published by Pickwick Books, with the Most Reverend Metropolitan Dr. Chrysostomos of Etna, Emeritus, and two other professors at the Saint Photios Orthodox Theological Seminary.