"My soul is wrought to sing of forms transformed to bodies new and strange!" We will read Books 1 and 2 of Ovid's Metamorphoses, starting with the creation and featuring stories of gods, mythical creatures, and mortals. Discussion starts and continues in the Forum; Zoom on Tuesday May 30. Read more
"I was harnessed to what seemed the largest wheel of the mill: my head was covered with a sack and I was at once given a shove along the curving track of its circular bed." This month we will finish reading Lucius Apuleius' Metamorphoses, with ongoing discussion in the Forum, and Zoom on Tuesday August 31 at 11 a.m. EDT. Read more
"I’d like to string together various tales in the Milesian style, and charm your kindly ear with seductive murmurs, so long as you’re ready to be amazed at human forms and fortunes changed radically and then restored in turn in mutual exchange, and don’t object to reading Egyptian papyri." We will read I–VI from Apuleius, Metamorphoses, discuss in the Forum, and meet via Zoom on Tuesday July 27 at 11… Read more
We were excited to welcome Miriam Kamil, a 5th year PhD candidate in classical philology at Harvard University for an Open House discussion on: The Cecropids and an Attic Aetiology in Ovid's Metamorphoses. The event was streamed live on Thursday, November 21 at 11 a.m. EST, and was recorded. There are suggested readings associated with this event. Read more
"First was the Golden Age. Then rectitude spontaneous in the heart prevailed, and faith. Avengers were not seen...." Leonard Muellner helped us to start thinking about Latin texts and Roman authors with a focus on Ovid's Metamorphoses. Read more
