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Seven Stars in the Humanities

A Humanities Pleiad

Anthony Kaldellis. Anthony Kaldellis,  professor in the Department of Greek and Latin, is one of six newly promoted full professors to speak in the College of Humanities Inaugural Lecture Series for 2007-2008. His April 7, 2008 lecture, "The Byzantines: Who Were They?" comes from a long study of a complex subject. The people whom we know as the Byzantines called themselves Romans: their state was a direct continuation of the Roman Empire, their capital was New Rome, and their ruler was the emperor of the Romans. Yet from the ninth to the twenty-first century this claim has never been properly recognized: modern scholarship still misrepresents them as Greek, multi-ethnic, medieval, oriental, Orthodox, or 'Byzantine.' In this lecture, Professor Kaldellis will speak about what it means to be a Byzantinist today, and about our continuing reluctance to respect the Byzantines' notions of who they were and why they mattered.

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The College of Humanities at The Ohio State University is home to 14 departments and 9 interdisciplinary centers that are critical to the liberal education of students in a modern world. For more on the College of Humanities and its mission, see 'Portrait' of C O H.
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