. . . and she died: Early Modern Re-imaginings of Aethiopica

Margo Hendricks, University of California -Santa Cruz, Emerita

Join the Department of Classics for a lecture about receptions of the late antique Greek romance novel, Heliodorus' Aithiopika (Ethiopian Tale), an adventure story that roams through Greece, Egypt, and Ethiopia and features a fascinating heroine onto whom ancient ideas about race and ethnicity are mapped.

 

Margo Hendricks is Professor Emerita of Literature at UC Santa Cruz. She is the co-editor of Women, 'Race,' and Writing in the Early Modern Period, with Patricia Parker (Routledge, 1993) and the author of many journal articles. Her current works in progress are an academic memoir and Heliodorus’ Daughters: Black Women and the Romance Industry. She writes romance fiction as Elysabeth Grace.  

 

 

NB: All attendees are required to abide by current university public health guidelines. Visitors to campus must complete an online screening no more than two hours before arrival, and all attendees must wear masks indoors, regardless of vaccination status.