“北外伊莎白讲堂”

英美文学研究中心学术讲座No. 58

The Forms of Classical Poetry

古典诗歌的形式

讲座时间：2025年4月21日15:00-17:00

讲座地点：英语学院111会议室

演讲人：Charles Weiss 副教授（剑桥大学古典学系）

主持人：邵雪萍 博士（北京外国语大学英语学院）

讲座介绍：

In this lecture we will seek to cover the main metrical forms of Ancient Greek and Latin poetry. The lecture will cover the essentials of the hexameter, the elegiac couplet, the iambic trimeter and lyric strophe, each of which had a lasting influence on all western poetry long after the fall of Rome. We will also consider not only the exact linguistic requirements of each form but the broader semantic and even social connotations and the history and development of each form in the hands of some of the most famous poets of Classical antiquity. No knowledge of Greek or Latin is required to enjoy the lecture.

讲座人信息：

Dr. Weiss came from Atlanta, Georgia to study Classics at Columbia University (BA and MA) and Yale University (PhD), focusing on the languages and literatures of both Ancient Greek and Latin. He then went to Oxford to teach the subject for five years before taking a post (in 2003) with the Faculty of Classics at Cambridge. Dr Weiss is an Associate Professor in Classics at Cambridge and Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics for Clare College, Cambridge. Dr Weiss specializes in language pedagogy in both languages and teaches Classical languages and literature for Clare College. In 2012 he published a student’s introduction to Homer’s Odyssey for Cambridge University Press and is currently working on guides to Ancient Greek and Latin for English and Chinese students.