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Reading New Books: Automated Athens by Michele Kennerly

Wednesday, March 24, 2027
4:00 p.m.
102 Ihlseng Cottage
Reading New Books: Automated Athens by Michele Kennerly

Automated Athens: Ancient Greek Ideals in the Early Age of Automation is a critical history of the recurring idea that technology will free us from work and bring about a truly democratic society.

Michele Kennerly is associate professor of communication arts and sciences and of classics and ancient Mediterranean studies. She is the author of Automated Athens (University of Chicago, 2026) and editor-in-chief of the history of rhetoric journal Rhetorica.

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Book cover for Auto-mated Athens: Ancient Greek Ideals in the Early Age of Automation by Michele Kennerly. Featuring dashes across a tan page.
Book cover for Auto-mated Athens: Ancient Greek Ideals in the Early Age of Automation by Michele Kennerly. Featuring dashes across a tan page.
102 Ihlseng Cottage

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