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Mothers don’t normally belong in Latin epics, which were meant to be devoted to warriors and warfare.
Ovid’s tale is a lusty celebration of man’s triumph over nature.
Sad Tiger and Trauma Plot are two stunning memoirs by rape survivors who immerse themselves in art and literature. They both transcend ‘art as therapy’.
Ovid’s Metamorphoses has several characters who become men, Kaos’s interpretation of such myths is just a bit more modern and empowering.
The myth of Narcissus – the beautiful youth who fell in love with his own reflection – has inspired poets, artists and psychoanalysts.
After COVID-19 closures, Edmonton Opera presented a contemporary telling of the Greek myth of lovers separated by death.
Collecting choice Latin lines is easy – the difficulty is trying to work out what they add up to. And women, in particular, come off badly in this collection of Latin’s greatest hits.
Just in time for this year’s Nobel Prize announcements, here’s how the symbolism of a plant associated with the god Apollo lives on in modern-day laureates.
This ancient myth, in which a nymph transforms herself into a tree to escape the lustful attention of the god Apollo, has inspired countless retellings in art. Its themes resonate today.
None of us are going to be able to travel with ease to New York any time soon but this exhibition showcases the quality and depth of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection.
Disasters are inevitable. They should not make us give up on life, rather we should celebrate the preciousness of that life all the more.
The earliest surviving example of man-to-wolf transformation is found in The Epic of Gilgamesh, from around 2,100 BC. But the werewolf as we now know it first appeared in ancient Greece and Rome.
It may seem incredible that some 2,500 years since the Homeric epics, women are still silenced in public. But the myths of Archaic Greece resonate today in disturbing ways.
There are calls for Ovid’s Metamorphoses to be taught with a trigger warning. This 15-book epic is a rollercoaster of a read, with moments of both delicious joy and abject depravity. Like much great art, it was not created to please.
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Honorary Professor of Classics and Ancient History, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland
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Associate lecturer, Macquarie University
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Paul Eliadis Chair of Classics and Ancient History, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Classical Studies, Brandeis University
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Assistant Professor of Classics, MacEwan University
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Professor of Classics and Head of the Centre for Classical Studies, Australian National University
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Adjunct Assistant Professor in Department of Classics, Trinity College Dublin
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Lecturer in Roman and Late Antique Material Culture, University of Reading
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Postdoctoral research associate, University of Reading
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Associate Professor, School of Humanities and Languages, UNSW
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Head of Creative Writing, University of Portsmouth
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College Teaching Associate (Peterhouse), University of Cambridge
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Associate Professor of Spanish, Department of Humanities, MacEwan University