Timothy Kircher presents talks on Renaissance Myth-making

Timothy Kircher, H. Curt '56 and Patricia S. '57 Hege Professor of History, presented two papers in March on the way Renaissance humanists explored classical myths. He was an invited speaker at the international conference Ad Inferos / To the Underworld at the University of Urbino, Italy, on March 12-13, and presented "River-Crossings in the Netherworld: Traversing the Boundaries of Renaissance Philosophizing in the Afterlife." On March 21, he spoke on the "Historiographies of Hades" at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in Boston.