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Tag Archives: Homeric Hymn
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 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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Myth Reading Group – Spring Term 2021
Dionysus is our theme for this term’s Myth Reading Group. 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 Aristophanes, Dionysus, Euripides, Homeric Hymn, Jane Harrison, Philostratus
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Myth Reading Group: Call for Proposals, Autumn 2019
Centre for Myth Studies — Myth Reading Group Call for Proposals: Myth and Childhood We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting suggestions for texts to read for our new theme, Myth and Childhood. We invite proposals from … Continue reading
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Tagged Apollo, call for papers, Homeric Hymn, myth and childhood, Philip Pullman
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Thursday 10 March: Narrating Persephone’s ‘Afterlife’
In this session, Brittany Kuhn introduces a discussion of the reception of the figure of Persephone in contemporary poetry. The myth of Demeter and Persephone has been widely studied and ‘translated’ across cultures and periods. Yet, we learn very little … Continue reading
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Tagged afterlives, Greek mythology, Homeric Hymn, Louise Glück, modern/contemporary literature, Persephone, poetry, Rita Dove
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Thursday 11 February: Demeter and Persephone: A Jungian Interpretation
This week Joyce Tye will introduce a discussion of the myth of Demeter and Persephone, offering a Jungian interpretation. The underworld holds the deepest secrets and is a prime concern of the soul. For Carl G. Jung, myths provided not … Continue reading
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Tagged afterlives, C. G. Jung, Demeter, Greek mythology, Homeric Hymn, Persephone
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Tuesday 17 January: Persephone – Extraordinary Renditions: To Hell and Back
Myth Reading Group Tuesday 17 January 2012 5 – 6 p.m. Room 5B.330 — NOTE CHANGE OF ROOM We have three principal texts for this week… 01 Introduction by Leon Burnett (to be read first) 02 Mandel’shtam’s Persephone Poems (‘I … Continue reading
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Tagged afterlives, D. H. Lawrence, Demeter, Homeric Hymn, Leon Burnett, Orpheus, Osip Mandel’shtam, Persephone, poetry, Tennyson
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