The UCSC Classical Studies Program presents The Deppe Memorial Lecture, taking place Friday, May 16th at the Cowell Provost house at 4:00pm (reception to follow).

Professor Dan-El Padilla Peralta (Princeton University) will be giving a talk titled “The Bringer of Fire: Prometheus in Santo Domingo.”

This lecture will examine the Prometeo of the Dominican poet, playwright, and novelist Héctor Incháustegui Cabral (1912-1979). Published together with adaptations of Sophocles’s Philotectes and Euripides’s Hippolytus in 1964, Cabral’s take on Aeschylus is an underappreciated turning-point in Dominican and Caribbean experiments with Greek tragedy — and an effective springboard for critical reflection on the cross-hatching of race, politics, and classical reception in the 20th- and 21st-century Black Aegean.

All are welcome to attend this event. We hope to see you there!