Dr. Victor Davis Hanson, an emeritus professor of Classics at California State University, Fresno, returns to campus at 7 p.m. Feb. 18 to speak about “The Legacy of War,” the subject of his next book.
Hanson, a nationally syndicated columnist, is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and is the Wayne and Marcia Buske Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College in Michigan.
He received the National Humanities Medal in 2007 and the Bradley Prize in 2008.
Hanson taught at Fresno State from 1985 to 2004, helping establish the university’s Classics Program within the College of Arts and Humanities. He grew up in southern Fresno County on a farm that he operated before starting his teaching career at Fresno State after receiving his Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Santa Cruz and his doctorate from Stanford.
He has written numerous books about warfare in ancient Greece and its continuing influence on modern wars. In April, Bloomsbury Press will publish his “The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern,” which examines the influence of war on societies and the impact of societies on wars since Ancient Greece.
Hanson’s Fresno State lecture will be presented at the Concert Hall in the Music Building. There is no admission charge and the lecture is open to the public.
The appearance is sponsored by the Classics Program at Fresno State with support from the Phebe McClatchy Conley Endowment.
For further information, contact Karen Streatch in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, 559.278.2386 or kstreatch@csufresno.edu.
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