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Tag Archives: Ovid
Myth Reading Group 15 December: Medusa
The Myth Reading Group will meet on ‘Zoom’ on Thursday 15 December 2022, 5:30-6:30 pm (UK time). The link to join is in the comments for this post. All are welcome. The theme for the Autumn Term is ‘Beauty’. Beyond … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Medusa, Ovid, Percy Bysshe Shelley, poetry, Romanticism
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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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Thursday 25 February: The Sibyl’s Afterlives
This week Eirini Apanomeritaki introduces a discussion of adaptations of the myth of the Sibyl in literature. In the session, we will discuss the ‘afterlife’ of the myth of the Cumaean Sibyl, the prophetess, who appears in both Virgil’s Aeneid … Continue reading
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Tagged afterlives, Eirini Apanomeritaki, Margaret Atwood, modern/contemporary literature, Ovid, Roman mythology, Sybil, Virgil
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Thursday 10 October: Europa
Myth Reading Group Thursday 10 October 2013 5 – 6 p.m. Room 5A.118 The text: Europa Myth and Continent (texts by Ovid, Moschus, Mandelstam, Moniza Alvi and others, assembled by Leon Burnett)
Tuesday 1 May: Orpheus (pt 1)
Myth Reading Group Tuesday 1 May 2012 5 – 6 p.m. Room 5A.330 (Note the room number: as autumn term, not spring term) The text: The Death of Orpheus (Ovid, Metamorphoses, trans. Mary Innes, 1955) [link expired]