Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas
December 24, 2020
Wishing you the very best for the Holiday Season!
Emerson selections
October 18, 2020
Emerson Selections
Nature
The American Scholar
The Transcendentalist
Self Reliance
The Over-Soul
"The Rhodora"
"Brahma"
Experience
Culture
The Fugitive Slave Law
The Emancipation Proclamation
Key Dates related to Antony and Cleopatra
October 08, 2020
Here are some key dates related to our reading of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra:
Antony (83 - 30 BCE)
Cleopatra (69 - 30 BCE)
Second Triumvirate
Augustus (63 BCE - 14 CE)
Antony (83 - 30 BCE)
Lepidus (c.88 - 12 BCE)
Pompey (67 - 35 BCE)
Battle of Actium (31 BCE)
Antony & Cleopatra vs. Octavian
First Triumvirate (60 - 53 BCE)
Julius (100 - 44 BCE)
Crassus (115 -53 BCE)
Pompey (106 - 48 BCE)
Battle of Philippi (42 BCE)
Antony & Octavian vs. Brutus & Cassius
Virgil (70 - 19 BCE)
Ovid (43 BCE - 17/18 CE)
Plutarch (46 - c.119 CE)
Thomas North trans. Plutarch’s Lives (1579)
Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
The Tragedie Anthonie and Cleopatra (1607)
First Folio (1623)
Elizabeth I (1533 -1603)
James VI & I (1566 - 1625)
Sunday Q&A - 9/20 & Additional links
September 26, 2020
Here is a Sunday Q&A recording and a few additional links related to our reading of Ovid--
Audio recording for our recent Sunday Q&A - 9/20
Two great books on Roman religion:
Scheid, An Introduction to Roman Religion
A novel imagining Ovid's life in exile:
Resources on Ovid
September 22, 2020
Here are a few resources we've collected on Ovid along the way. A few more likely to follow.
Golding's translation of Ovid in multiple versions to access
https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
https://books.google.com/
Latin audio of the Metamorphoses
Reading Selections for Ovid
September 07, 2020
Our first session of the Fall Semester is coming up! These are recommended selections, the "not to be missed" sections that will form the basis for our class discussions of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Prioritize reading the complete books noted below in boldface. If you have time for more reading, read the selected stories from the other books as noted. Of course, read straight through if you have the time and inclination. References are to the new, annotated Rolfe Humphries editions (Indiana UP).
Book One, complete
Book Two, The Story of Phaeton; The Story of Raven; Europa
Book Three, complete
Book Four, The Story of Pyramus and Thisbe; The End of Cadmus; The Story of Perseus
Book Six, complete
Book Seven, The Story of Jason and Medea
Book Eight, The Story of Daedalus and Icarus; The Calydonian Boar; The Story of Baucis and Philemon
Book Nine, The Story of Hercules, Nessus, and Deianira; The Story of Hercules' Birth
Book Ten, complete
Book Eleven, The Death of Orpheus; The Story of Midas; The Building of the Walls of Troy; The Story of Thetis
Book Twelve, The Invasion of Troy; Story of the Battle with the Centaurs
Book Thirteen, complete
Book Fourteen, The Deification of Aeneas; Legendary History of Rome; Pomono and Vertumnus
Book Fifteen, complete
Readings in Mythology
August 10, 2020
As we approach reading Ovid's Metamorphoses for Brilliant Minds this Fall, here are links to some background reading on Greek mythology:
Roberto Calasso, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony
https://amzn.to/2PEg7Dx
Jean-Pierre Vernant, The Universe, Gods, and Men
https://amzn.to/3fJY5dG
Timothy Gantz, Early Greek Myth (2 volumes)
https://amzn.to/2XJAFPr
https://amzn.to/31CUqJI
Robert Graves, The Greek Myths
https://amzn.to/2PzSj3U
Edith Hamilton, Mythology
https://amzn.to/2XEwUuP
Bernini’s Apollo and Daphne (Artsy)
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-berninis-apollo-daphne-unnerving-depiction-unwanted-desire
Picasso Prints, "Myths, Minotaurs, and Muses" (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
https://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/806.html