By Freya Savla '22 Edited by Katie Painter '23 and Rosemary Chen '24 Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of King Lear ends with a stark grimness that propels an unsparing conclusion, taking not only the audience, but also the characters of the play by surprise. The deaths of...
By Alina Martel '23 Edited by Miranda Papes '21 and Gamze Kazakoglu '24 In a lecture hall brimming with first-year Yale students, eager to begin a semester of reading and discussing the best works the western world has to offer, Professor Bryan Garsten made an intricate, unsettling...
By Alex Hu '23 Edited by Daevan Mangalmurti '24 and Louie Lu '23 Although Livy suggests that he consulted only “reliable records of historical events” to compose his Annales, he nonetheless begins his narrative with an account of Aeneas’ mythical arrival in Italy, an event both more...
By Jisoo Choi '22 Edited by Esther Reichek '23 and Judah Millen '24 A callused hand thrice extended—a pale specter thrice rebuffed. The corporeal reaching for the shade, fingers quivering with longing—the eternally intangible slipping from the living grasp, driven away by the laws that...
By Omar Chishti '22 Edited by London Johns '25 and Natalie Simpson '23 EUTHYPHRO: “I would certainly say that the pious is what all the gods love, and the opposite, what all the gods hate is impious.” SOCRATES: “But now you see that they are in opposite...
Dear Readers, Thank you for reading the Fall 2020 edition of The Yale Historical Review (YHR). I write this letter from the somewhat curious position as a soon-to-be graduate from Yale. For the first time in four years, I will no longer be a member of the YHR. In August...
