It’s All Greek to Me...or is it? The Enduring Lure of Greek Culture
Hurricane Relief Fundraiser
Saturday, March 1
6-9:30PM
The Daughters of Penelope Anaes Chapter 210 will host a Greek dinner and presentation by Dr. William M. Murray, the Mary and Gus Stathis Professor of Greek History Emeritus at the University of South Florida. The presentation is entitled It’s All Greek to Me . . . or is it? The Enduring Lure of Greek Culture.
The event is a fundraiser to help St. Stefanos with monumental costs in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton, including damage to the church’s sacred iconographic wall and Holy Altar.
Tickets for $60/pp include a Greek dinner and dessert, Professor Murray’s presentation, and a performance of the Kefi Dancers.
The speaker, Professor William M. Murray, holds a PhD from University of Pennsylvania. In addition to his long tenure at USF, Murray has held appointments at the US Naval Academy and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Over the past 40 years, he has worked at archaeological sites, both underwater and on land, in Greece, Israel, Turkey, France and Italy. While he recently retired from USF, Professor Murray is currently a member of the Egadi Island Survey Project recovering ancient warships from the last naval battle of the 241 BC First Punic War and has just published, with others, the excavations conducted at Augustus’ Victory Monument for the Actian War near Nicopolis (Epiros) in Greece.
For more information about the event, contact Angela Vlachos Ruth angela56.ruth@gmail.com.