Ovid
Lettori latini e italiani di Ovidio. Duemila anni di ricezione
Universita di Torino , ItalyDipartimento di Studi Umanistici – Università di Torino Comitato scientifico e organizzativo: Federica Bessone e Sabrina Stroppa ( Programma Sala Principe d’Acaja (Rettorato) 9 novembre 2017, ore 14.45 Presiede la sessione: Federica Bessone Introduzione ai lavori Mario Labate (Università di Firenze), Ovidio magister amoris e le disavventure di Encolpio a Crotone Luca Graverini (Università di Siena - Arezzo), Ovidio […]
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 […]
VIVAM! Ovid is alive 2,000 years after his death: An evening of readings and discussion
Royal Geographical Society London, United KingdomJoin us for a lively discussion about Ovid’s work, his wit, his irony and his gift for ventriloquism, between Classics for All Patron Natalie Haynes and Professor Stephen Heyworth (Wadham College, Oxford), chaired by Dr Peter Jones MBE on Tuesday 17 April 2018. The evening will commence with a reading of selected passages of Ovid […]
Connie Bloomfield, ‘Pornographic Ovid, grotesque translations, and proto-surrealism in nineteenth-century Brazil: Bernardo Guimarães’ A Origem do Mênstruo’
Classics Faculty, Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, United Kingdom'Pornographic Ovid, grotesque translations, and proto-surrealism in nineteenth-century Brazil: Bernardo Guimarães’ A Origem do Mênstruo' Connie Bloomfield (KCL) The erotic poem ‘A Origem do Mênstruo’ , published in 1875 by the nineteenth-century Brazilian Romantic poet Bernardo Guimarães, claims to be a translation of a translation of a lost Ovidian aetiology, unearthed in the Pompeiian excavations. Whilst […]
The London Renaissance Seminar: Ovid in Love and Trouble
Birkbeck University Malet Street, London, United KingdomJoin us for a day of papers on Ovid in England; Ovid’s reproduction through Elizabethan textiles; models of abject creativity; gender and sex; the genre of love elegy Speakers include: Catherine Bates; Cora Fox; Linda Grant; Liz Oakley-Brown Keynes Library (Room 114), 43 Gordon Square, Birkbeck Contact: s.wiseman@bbk.ac.uk or elizabeth.scott-baumann@kcl.ac.uk The London […]
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 […]
Sophie Schoess, ‘Mediaeval Antisemitism and the Classical Tradition in the Ovide Moralisé
University of St Andrews St Andrews, United KingdomSt Andrews Research Seminar
Tania Demetriou, ‘Unfamiliar Ovids in the English Renaissance’
University of Leeds Leeds, United KingdomLeeds Classics Research Seminar All seminars take place on Thursday at 5pm. in LAHRI Seminar Room 1 (3.01 Clothworkers South Building), University of Leeds, LS2 9JT All welcome! For further information, please contact Paul White p.m.white@leeds.ac.uk
Sex, Rage and Change: feminist adaptation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses
OnlineA public conversation hosted by the Department of Classics, the University of the South (Sewanee) with Nina MacLaughlin (author of Wake Siren: Ovid Resung, 2019), Paisley Rekdal (Poet Laureate of Utah and author of Nightingale, 2019) and Prof. Stephanie McCarter (Professor of Classics, University of the South, Sewanee and translator of Ovid's Metamorphoses). Email Stephanie McCarter […]