New Podcast: Beginnings and Endings in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

“Vivam!” “I will live.” The final word of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, proclaiming the poet’s hope that he will continue to be known through his great work. It’s a prediction that of course turns out to be true, as we’re still reading and influenced by the Metamorphoses 2000 years after it was written. In this podcast, Simona Martorana...

Beginnings and Endings in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Public lecture, 19th September)

The influences of Ovid's Metamorphoses can be found throughout later Western literature. This Late Summer Lecture with Simona Martorana will take us back to the original poem, at the end of which Ovid remarkably suggests his work is bound to last forever. All welcome to Alington House, Durham on 19th September from 17.30. Ovid’s Metamorphoses was the book from which centuries of...

Ovid’s Heroines: Review of Clare Pollard at Durham Book Festival

Clare Pollard's book Ovid's Heroines was published in 2013 to great critical acclaim. In her modern rendition of Ovid's Heroides (a Roman collection of verse epistles or letter poems written from the perspective of women left behind by lovers and husbands of mythological fame) Pollard breathes fresh life into the anger, passion, grief and complaint of classical figures...