Carl Deppe Lecture 2013

April 05, 2013

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Please join the UCSC Classical Studies department for the 2013 Carl Deppe Lecture:

Professor Simon Goldhill

First Words, Dying Moments: Starting and Ending in Sophocles and Euripides

Friday April 12 at 4 p.m.
Cowell Provost House
Reception to follow 

How does tragedy start and stop — and what does it tell us about the ends of man?

Simon Goldhill is Professor of Greek at Cambridge where he also runs the university's interdisiciplinary research center. He has lectured all over the world and appeared on TV and radio and in the theatre in America, Australia, Canada as well as regularly in Britain and Europe. He is a leading expert on Greek tragedy and Greek culture.

For more information, please contact jklynn@ucsc.edu