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2012 ΦBK Video Series: "What is a god?" from James J. O'Donnell
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It's impossible to discuss belief in a higher power without understanding the meaning of the word "god." In this video, Georgetown University Provost James J. O'Donnell takes us through the history and evolution of the gods, using examples from antiquity through the Middle Ages, all the while incorporating analogies and examples from modern life in the West.
James O’Donnell has been a professor of classics and provost at Georgetown since 2003. Before that he taught for 21 years at the University of Pennsylvania and held visiting appointments at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Washington, and Yale University. He is a classicist who specializes in the history and culture of the Roman world from 100 BCE to 600 CE. He also has written and spoken widely on the cultural consequences of information technologies ancient and modern. His most recent books are
Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace
(Harvard University Press, 1998),
Augustine: A New Biography
(Harper Collins, 2005), and
The Ruin of the Roman Empire
(Ecco Press, 2008). He is finishing a volume entitled
Pagans
and looks beyond that to a study of Cicero intended to explore the links between ancient figures and texts and their modern readers and students. Past president of the American Philological Association and a fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, he is a member of the board of trustees of the American Council of Learned Societies and previously served on the board of the National Humanities Center.
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