Raymond Starr, professor of Classics at Wellesley College, will give the Harry Gutman Memorial Lecture in Classics on Tuesday, March 7 at 5 p.m. in the Phi Beta Kappa Room, Schaffer Library. His talk is titled, “Vergil's Aeneid is Required for This Course: What Did Ancient Readers Learn from Studying the Aeneid?”
The Latin epic by Vergil, written in the 1st century BC, tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans.
Starr has earned numerous awards for his teaching at Wellesley, where he has worked since 1979. His research has been supported by two fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies. He also is former president of the Classical Association of New England.