Orr Forum - “Immortality and its Discontents: Greek Gods and the Modern Search for Eternal Life"

The Orr Forum is an academic event featuring topics on the wide and shifting interests in religion studies in America.

“Immortality and its Discontents: Greek Gods and the Modern Search for Eternal Life"
If it wasn't good enough for the Greek gods, why do we think it will be good enough for us?
Presented by Deborah Lyons, Professor of Classics, Miami University
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 at 11 a.m.
Lenfest Learning Commons in John Stewart Memorial Library, Wilson College

Deborah Lyons is the author of Dangerous Gifts: Gender and Exchange in Ancient Greece (Austin 2012), Gender and Immortality: Heroines in Ancient Greek Myth and Cult (Princeton 1997) and the co-editor (with K. Raaflaub) of Ex Oriente Lex: Near Eastern Influences on Greek and Roman Law, essays by Raymond Westbrook (Baltimore 2015) and (with R. Westbrook) of Women and Property in Ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean Societies (Washington, DC 2005). Her current project is “Immortality and its Discontents,” on ancient Greek views about the eternal life of their gods. She has just been promoted to Professor of Classics at Miami University (Ohio, USA).