British scholar delivers Ioannides address

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By Communications Staff
Monday, October 26, 2009
Zahra Newby, Reader in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick in the U.K., will give the 23rd Annual Ion Ioannides Memorial Lecture on Friday, Oct. 30 at The University of Western Ontario.
 
The lecture will be held at 3:30 p.m. in Room 40 of the Labatt Health Sciences Building.
 
Newby’s address will focus on a major theme of her research, “Greek Athletics in the Roman West.”   A reception directly following the lecture will be held in International Centre for Olympic Studies (ICOS), Room 317 of the Arthur and Sonia Labatt Building.  All lecture attendees are invited.  
 
Newby is a graduate of Corpus Christi College, Oxford and holds a PhD in classical art from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.  Her best known publications are the widely reviewed monograph, “Greek Athletics in the Roman World: Victory and Virtue” and the survey text, “Athletics in the Ancient World.” A lengthy list of articles in peer-reviewed journals and a number of chapter contributions to books have added to Newby’s scholarly standing in the world of classical studies.  
 
The Ioannides lecture was established in 1986 to commemorate the life and career of Ion P. Ioannides, distinguished Greek scholar-educator, noted humanist, and celebrated patriot guerilla leader during the Axis invasion and subsequent German occupation of Greece in World War II.  Ioannides, who died in 1984, taught summer courses at Western in the early 1970s during a period when he was abroad, banished from Greece during the nation’s rule by the infamous Military Junta Regime.

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