The Aeneid and Metamorphoses have continued to be rediscovered and reinterpreted throughout the...
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Afterlife I: Late Latin and Renaissance
Virgil and Ovid were both incredibly influential upon later poetry and culture, and in this...
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Ovid ends his work with a series of deifications: Julius Caesar becomes a god; Augustus will...
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In books 11-14 of the Metamorphoses Ovid takes on the stories of Troy's fall and Rome's origin -...
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Art and Song: Orpheus and Pygmalion
This lecture focusses on the two most prominent lovers in Metamorphoses 9-11, Orpheus and...
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Changing Nature: Genre in the Metamorphoses
It is often said that Ovid's is a 'Callimachean epic', in other words an episodic and...
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Epic poetry often features a hostile and punitive god, who forms a barrier to the hero’s journey,...
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Ovid Metamorphoses: Gods and Nymphs
On the surface Ovid’s Metamorphoses appears to question traditional gender norms, in particular...
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Introducing Ovid’s Metamorphoses
When Virgil died in 19 BCE, the Aeneid became an instant classic, and even before his death...
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Virgil’s Iliad? Epic Intertextuality
Virgil was undoubtedly very well-read: he had a deep knowledge of the epics of Homer and Ennius,...
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Epic and Augustus: Poetry and Politics
Virgil’s Aeneid is the first complete Latin epic which remains to us, and it is arguably the most...
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