Modern historian Cynthia Patterson looks at Sophocles as a lesson for marriage in her lecture, “Marriage in Trouble: Reading Sophocles as Social History,” at 2:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 8, in room 114 of Denison University’s Olin Science Hall (100 Sunset Hill Drive). The lecture, sponsored by the classics department, is free and open to the public.

Patterson is a professor of history at Emory University. Her interests include Greek history, especially social and family, and Greek law.

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CALENDAR LISTING, Denison University, Granville — Lecture, “Marriage in Trouble: Reading Sophocles as Social History,” at 2:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 8, in room 114 of Olin Science Hall (100 Sunset Hill Drive). Free and open to the public. For more information, contact Rebecca Woods at 740-587-6251 or visit www.denison.edu.

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Denison University, founded in 1831, is an independent, residential liberal arts institution located in Granville, Ohio. A highly selective college enrolling 2,100 full-time undergraduate students from all 50 states and dozens of foreign countries, Denison is a place where innovative faculty and motivated students collaborate in rigorous scholarship, civic engagement and the cultivation of independent thinking.

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