Annual Conference

Keynote Speaker

Kathryn A. Morgan

Joan Palevsky Professor of Classics 
University of California, Los Angeles 

About the Speaker

Kathryn A. Morgan is Joan Palevsky Professor of Classics at UCLA. Her interests range broadly over Greek literature of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE and her research moves between projects connected with Plato and with Pindar. The former is represented by her book Myth and Philosophy from the Presocratics to Plato (2000), and by her involvement in the series Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative, where she was responsible for the chapters covering Plato. Her next book, Pindar and the Construction of Syracusan Monarchy in the Fifth Century B.C. (2015), was a groundbreaking reading of the poetry written by Pindar for Hieron of Syracuse. Ongoing research includes projects on historical narrative in the Persians of Aeschylus, Pindaric politics, and Plato’s transformative appropriation of Athenian comedy and Greek lyric.