We are excited to welcome Arti Mehta of Howard University for an
Online Open House entitled “ A Young Woman’s Journey to Womanhood: Greek
and Indic Models from Menander and Kālidāsa” The event will take place
on Friday, February 19 at 11:00 a.m. EST and will be recorded. You can
watch the live-streaming on the Center for Hellenic Studies YouTube Channel.
To get ready for the event, you might like to read:
Act 3 of Kālidāsa’s Shakuntala:
http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/shakuntala_ryder.pdf
The Prologue, Act 1, and Act 4 of Menander’s Dyskolos:
https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/Grouch.php
Of interest but not required: Piku (2015), directed by Shoojit Sircar
Arti Mehta
Arti
Mehta earned an undergraduate degree in English at San Francisco State
University, with a focus on poetry and on literature by women. On
formally entering the field of classics in graduate school, she acquired
the languages of classical studies (M.A. in Greek), the methodologies
of comparative literature, and the religious, philosophical, and
story-telling perspectives of India studies. She was a Summer Fellow at
the American School of Classical Studies in 2000, awarded the Semple
Grant from the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.
Indiana University graduate student and dissertation fellowships led her
to write a thesis on Greek, Latin and Indian fables under the aegis of
Dr. Eleanor Leach, thereby earning a PhD in Greek with minors in Latin
and Sanskrit. A project on the philosophy of Jainism, conducted in
India, was adopted into her high school library; her dissertation was
accepted by the Library of Congress. Dr. Arti Mehta teaches language and
literature classes in the Department of Classics.
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