Mike Ryan Lecture Series March 16

Louis A. Ruprecht (GSU)

SO 1019 12:30

Finding & Losing Your Way: Plato's Erotic Path
Dr. Ruprecht is an affiliate faculty member with the Hellenic Studies Center and the Center for Collaborative Scholarship in the Humanities. He is also a research fellow of the Vatican Library Secret Archives and a staff writer for "Religion Dispatches." He has taught and published in topics ranging from Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Religion and Culture, to issues regarding Comparative Religious Ethics, the History of Christianity, Tragedy, and various philosophic writings.

Selected Publications:
Tragic Posture and Tragic Vision: Against the Modern Failure of Nerve, (Continuum, 1994)
Afterwords: Hellenism, Modernism and the Myth of Decadence (SUNY, 1996)
Symposia: Plato, the Erotic and Moral Value, (SUNY, 1999)
Was Greek Thought Religious? On the Use and Abuse of Hellenism, From Rome to Romanticism, (Palgrave, 2002)
God Gardened East: A Gardener's Meditation on the Dynamics of Genesis, Cascade Books (January 2008).
This Tragic Gospel: How John Corrupted the Heart of Christianity, (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2008)
"A Shrine to the Muses: The Modern Public Art Museum, Spiritual Space for an Irreligious Age" (in progress)
"Winckelmann's Secret History: the Birth of Art History and the Vatican's First Profane Museum" (currently under review)