Prof. Meuller named head of Plutarch Society

Hans-Friedrich Mueller, professor and chair of Classics, has been appointed section head of the North American Section of the International Plutarch Society. The IPS organizes conferences and colloquia, and publishes the journal Ploutarchos, dedicated to scholarly interpretation of the works of Plutarch of Chaeronea (circa AD 46-120), a crucial source for Greek and Roman history and a pivotal figure in the intellectual history of the West. Prof. Mueller also was invited to present a Liberal Arts Colloquium at Kalamazoo College. His talk, "Ancient Rome at Night: From Law to Conspiracy," was on aspects of Roman law and nocturnal religion as a means to interpret political elements of the Bacchanalian conspiracy of 186 BC.