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Cultures have long begged, borrowed, and stolen from one another, and stories of Troy have proven especially attractive for many peoples to think with and think about. The Romans are a prime example, but hardly the only one. This lecture will look at the how and why of their appropriation of the Trojan legendry and the Romans’ influence on its later reception.
Sander M. Goldberg first encountered the Greco-Roman world as an undergraduate at UR, where he majored in Classics and History. After graduate training at Indiana University and University College London, he taught at Stanford, Berkeley, and Colorado before settling at UCLA, where he is now Distinguished Research Professor of Classics.
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With support from the ACLS, NEH, and Guggenheim Foundation, he has published extensively on Greek and Roman drama, epic, and rhetoric, co-edited a prize-winning collection of essays on Haydn, and contributed a Classicist’s perspective to a volume on the music of Gabriel Fauré. He is a past editor of the journal TAPAand the (then) APA Textbook series, and as Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Classical Dictionary’sfifth edition guided its transition to an all-digital format. Sponsored by the Department of Religion & Classics.
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