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Goetics: The Magical Poetics of Latin Love Elegy

The language and conceptualization of love take for granted a supernatural element. From antiquity to today, we acknowledge the irresistible force of love by attributing to it the character of […]

Last Days of the Empire

A new play by Robert Potter, UCSB professor emeritus of drama, "Last Days of the Empire" is set amid the ruins of Cyrene in Roman North Africa. It interweaves characters […]

Hitler’s Assault on the Golden Rule

“To resist,” from the Latin resistere, means to stand fast, to uphold principles against pressure to abandon them. In her lecture, Claudia Koonz will discuss the appeal of the Nazis’ […]

History Associates and “Idiot’s Delight”

History Conference Room (HSSB 4020) The Robert Sherwood play, which won him the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1936, tells the story of a song and dance man traveling through […]

Saving the Hero: Or, Why Virgil Was No Plagiarist

The fundamental role that imitation played in Latin literature lies beyond any doubt. Ancient readers, however, did not deem every act of textual adaptation acceptable, and in fact relegated some […]