Seth Parry is Belhaven University’s 2025 Humanities Teacher of the Year. Parry’s lecture, Ancient Foes, Modern Narratives: Framing the Ottomans as Trojans in Venetian Humanism, will be presented 2/7/25 at 3:00 pm on the college’s campus in the Student Center Theatre. The presentation will look at a linguistic construct used by Venetian Renaissance humanists in respect to the Ottoman Empire, namely their use of the Latin word “Teucri” to identify the Ottoman “Turks.” “Teucri” was originally used to describe the ancient Trojans of Homeric fame. This presentation analyzes why Renaissance humanists would adopt this terminology by looking at the connotations and purpose of such a duplicate identification.
Parry will be among those honored at the Mississippi Humanities Council Awards Ceremony March 28, 2025 at the Two Mississippi Museums in Jackson. The event pays tribute to outstanding faculty in traditional humanities fields at each of the state’s institutions of higher learning.
