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Tag Archives: Greek mythology
Myth Reading Group 8 December: Circe
The Myth Reading Group meets on ‘Zoom’ on Wednesday 8 December, 5:30-6:30 pm (UK time). The link to join will be posted in the comments for this post. All are welcome. The Myth Reading Group is open to all who … Continue reading
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Tagged Circe, epic poetry, Greek mythology, Homer, Magic, modern/contemporary literature, Odyssey
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Myth Reading Group 29 June: Homeric Athena
The Myth Reading Group meets on ‘Zoom’ on Tuesday 29 June, 5:30-6:30 pm (UK time). The link to join will be posted in the comments for this post. All are welcome. For the final session in our series on Athena, … Continue reading
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Tagged Athena, epic poetry, Greek mythology, Homer, Homeric Hymn, John Flaxman, Odysseus, Odyssey
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Myth Reading Group 15 June: Athena on the stage: Eumenides & Ajax
The Myth Reading Group meets on ‘Zoom’ on Tuesday 15 June, 5:30-6:30 pm (UK time). The link to join is posted in the comments for this post. All are welcome. The gods occasionally appear on the Greek tragic stage: often … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeschylus, Ajax, Athena, Greek mythology, Greek Tragedy, Oresteia, Sophocles
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Myth Reading Group 1 June: Pindar and Mandelstam
The Myth Reading Group meets on ‘Zoom’ on Tuesday 1 June, 5:30-6:30 pm (UK time). The link to join will be posted in the comments for this post. All are welcome. Pindar’s Pythian Odes celebrate victors in the funeral games … Continue reading
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Tagged Athena, Greek mythology, modern/contemporary literature, music, Osip Mandel’shtam, Pindar, poetry
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Myth Reading Group 4 May: Calasso’s Athena
The Myth Reading Group meets on ‘Zoom’ on Tuesday 4 May, 5:30-6:30 pm (UK time). The link to join will be posted in the comments for this post. All are welcome. This week’s text is an extract from The Marriage … Continue reading
Myth Reading Group – Summer Term 2021: ATHENE
Our theme for this term’s Myth Reading Group is Athene. The Myth Reading Group is open to all who have an interest in the study of myth. Meetings are held over ‘Zoom’, with texts circulated in advance. Together we read … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeschylus, Athena, Greek mythology, Greek Tragedy, Minerva, Osip Mandel’shtam, Ovid, Pindar, Roberto Calasso, Roman mythology, Sophocles
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Myth Reading Group 22 March: Harrison’s Prolegomena
The Myth Reading Group meets on ‘Zoom’ on Monday 22 March, 5:30-6:30 pm (UK time). The link to join will be posted in the comments for this post. All are welcome. This week’s text is taken from Jane Ellen Harrison’s Prolegomena … Continue reading
Myth Reading Group 8 March: Philostratus the Elder, Imagines
The Myth Reading Group meets on ‘Zoom’ on Monday 8 March, 5:30-6:30 pm (UK time). The link to join is posted in the comments for this post. All are welcome. This week’s text is an extract from the Imagines of … Continue reading
Myth Reading Group 22 February: Homeric Hymns, and Frogs
The Myth Reading Group meets on ‘Zoom’ on Monday 22 February, 5:30-6:30 pm (UK time). The link to join is posted in the comments for this post. All are welcome. Following our discussion of Euripides’ Bacchae (405 BC), we turn … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristophanes, Dionysus, Frogs, Greek Comedy, Greek mythology, Heracles, Homeric Hymn
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