Friday, February 10, 2023 - 16:00
John Hume Building : Lecture Theatre 7
Professor Douglas Cairns, University of Edinburgh speaking on ‘Honour, Trust, and Social Cognition’.
Biography
Douglas Cairns is Professor of Classics in the University of Edinburgh. He has published widely on Greek literature, society and thought, especially the emotions. He is the author of Sophocles: Antigone (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016), Bacchylides: Five Epinician Odes (Francis Cairns, 2010), and Aidôs: The Psychology and Ethics of Honour and Shame in Ancient Greek Literature (OUP, 1993).