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Classics major presents research on "Poetics and the City"
October 24, 2014
Classics major Mark ten Haaf presented a research paper, “Aristotle and the Polis in Menander’s Dyskolos,” at the “Poetics and the City” panel at the 2014 meeting of the Southern Section of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS-SS), hosted by the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Mr. ten Haaf's paper was selected through a peer review process and examines an ancient comedy, the Dyskolos ("The Bad-Tempered Man") by the fourth-century BCE Greek playwright Menander, through the lens of Aristotelian doctrines in the Politics and the Nicomachean Ethics pertaining to social interaction and obligation.
CAMWS is a professional organization for classicists and non-classicists at all levels of instruction which promotes the Classics in thirty-two U.S. states and three Canadian provinces.