James Andrews, Associate Professor and Chair of Classics, Receives Stipend to Participate in National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar

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ATHENS, Ohio (May 8, 2000) -- James Andrews, associate professor and chair of the Department of Classics, College of Arts and Sciences at Ohio University, has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) summer stipend to attend a summer seminar on "The Individual, State, and Law in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China." David Cohen, Professor of Rhetoric and Classics and David Johnson, Professor of Chinese History, both of the University of California at Berkeley, will direct the seminar from June 12 to July 21, 2000 on the University of California, Berkeley campus.

Andrews' research is concerned with the interrelation of rhetoric and democratic ideology in classical Athens, Greece. "The seminar will provide a fine opportunity for bringing to completion my current project, an examination of the famous 'Funeral Oration' of Pericles, and, in particular, its pronouncements about freedom, justice, and equality in light of Aristotle's 'Politics'," Andrews states. It will also enable him to study the ancient Chinese political tradition, both in its own right and for the light that it sheds on certain aspects of Athenian politics and political thought. "And I look forward to the excitement of working with scholars from across the country who are eager to learn and to share ideas," he added.

Andrews is the author of several articles on ancient rhetoric and politics, including "Cleon's Ethopoetics," in Classical Quarterly 50 (1994), "Audience and ideology in Democratic Athens," in Actas del II Congreso Internacional: Retorica, Politica y Ideologia (Salamanca 1998), and "Cleon's Hidden Appeals," in Classical Quarterly 50 (2000).