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Myth Reading Group 9 February: Odin
The Myth Reading Group meets on ‘Zoom’ on Wednesday 9 February 2022, 5:30-6:30 pm (UK time). The link to join is posted in the comments for this post. All are welcome. Hávamál, or ‘The Words of the High One’ is … Continue reading
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Tagged Edda, Magic, Norse mythology, Odin, poetry, Runes, Yggdrasill
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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 November: Keats, The Fall of Hyperion
The Myth Reading Group meets on ‘Zoom’ on Wednesday 4 November, 5:30-6:30 pm (UK time). The link to join can be found in the comments for this post. All are welcome. Continuing our topic of ‘Food’, the primary text is: … Continue reading
Roundtable Discussion: Myth and Childhood
Roundtable Discussion: Myth and Childhood Myth Reading Group Wednesday 13 November 2019 1.15 – 2.45 pm Room NTC.3.06 In this session we invite our members to consider the idea of the “changeling,” and other instances of child abduction by fairies … Continue reading
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Tagged changeling, Erl King, Goethe, myth and childhood, poetry, Shakespeare, Walter Scott
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Pegasus in Pindar, Kavanagh, and Jung
Professor Roderick Main (Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex) Pegasus in Pindar, Kavanagh, and Jung Myth Reading Group Thursday 7 February 2019 12.00 – 1.30 pm Room 5B.124 In this session we shall canter and swoop around … Continue reading
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Tagged animals & mythical creatures, C. G. Jung, Greek mythology, Pegasus, Pindar, poetry, Roderick Main
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Windigos, Wingigog and Windikouk
Myth Reading Group Wednesday 31 October 2018 5.00 – 6.00 pm Room NTC.2.05 This week Léna Remy-Kovach (University of Freiburg) will join us by Skype to lead a session on Windigos, Wingigog and Windikouk. Léna Remy-Kovach, Windigos, Wingigog and … Continue reading
An Assyrian Lamassu in London
The Myth Reading Group returns. Wednesday 17 October 2018 5.00 – 6.30 pm Room NTC.2.05 Our founding director, Leon Burnett, opens the new year of myth-exploration. The topic for this term is Animals and Mythical Creatures. In the build up … Continue reading
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Tagged animals & mythical creatures, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Leon Burnett, Mesopotamia, poetry
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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 7 May: Old Myths for New Bards
This week Jeremy Solnick introduces a discussion of Kate Tempest’s poem Brand New Ancients (2013), in relation to this term’s theme of “Myth and emotion”. Click the link to see our poster: P-Tempest Myth Reading Group Thursday 07 May 2015 … Continue reading
Essex Myth 