Release Date: February 9, 2007

MONMOUTH, Ill. — David Noe, a visiting assistant professor at the University of Iowa, will deliver a free public lecture at Monmouth College on Feb. 15 at 7:30 p.m. in the Morgan Room of the college’s Poling Hall.

Entitled “Why Cicero Never Sent Valentines: Cicero and Ovid on the Irrationality of Love,” Noe’s lecture will examine the differing approaches of the Roman authors Cicero and Ovid to the question of whether love is rational.

Noe, a 1995 graduate of Calvin College, earned his Ph.D. in classics from the University of Iowa.

In other classics news, a flyer produced by Monmouth College to promote an Archaelogical Institute of America (AIA) talk on campus won the AIA’s 2007 Lecture Flyer Contest. The flyer was praised for its “clear message and “eye-catching graphics.”

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