Linda Rabieh on Plato's "Statesman"

Thu, November 11, 2021 5:00 PM - Thu, November 11, 2021 7:00 PM at Lemon Tree Room, The Graduate Hotel

"Unravelling the Web: The Meaning and Purpose of the Eleatic Stranger’s Political Science"

Linda Rabieh teaches political philosophy at MIT in the Department of Political Science and the Concourse Program, an interdisciplinary program in the sciences and humanities. She is the author of “Plato and the Virtue of Courage” from Johns Hopkins University Press, as well as of various articles on ancient and medieval political thought. For the past six years, she has been co-director of MIT’s January “ancient” Greece and Rome program, and, most recently, co-chair of the MIT Ancient and Medieval Studies speaker series.