metamorphosis
Peter Symes, ‘Making television films with Tony Harrison: Metamorpheus’
Classics Faculty, University of Oxford 66 St Giles', Oxford, United KingdomA screening followed by discussion between the director, Peter Symes, and Oliver Taplin.
OVID METAMORPHOSES 10: Public Reading with Kithara Accompaniment
Magdalen College Chapel OxfordOn Friday 23rd March, in Magdalen College Chapel, students and faculty will read their translations of the Metamorphoses. In doing so they will join their voices to hundreds more across the world, participants in a worldwide celebration of Ovid’s poetry. They will be accompanied by Michael Levy on a kithara - an ancient lyre traditionally used for performances […]
Metamorphosis & the Environmental Imagination, from Ovid to Shakespeare
UCLA Los Angeles, United StatesNarratives of metamorphosis, from human into other living and mineral forms, have long provided an important tool for thinking through the complexities of our relationship with the world around us. From Ovid to David Cronenberg, thinkers and artists have used the trope of physical transformation to figure the ways in which human and non-human agencies […]