CLASSICS 210 OVID 43 BC – AD 8
EARLY CAREER IN EROTIC ELEGY, through AD 2 LOVES (AMORES)
EARLY CAREER IN EROTIC ELEGY, through AD 2 LOVES (AMORES) EPISTLES OF HEROINES
EARLY CAREER IN EROTIC ELEGY, through AD 2 LOVES (AMORES) EPISTLES OF HEROINES ART OF LOVE
EARLY CAREER IN EROTIC ELEGY, through AD 2 LOVES (AMORES) EPISTLES OF HEROINES ART OF LOVE COSMETICS OF THE FEMALE FACE
EARLY CAREER IN EROTIC ELEGY, through AD 2 LOVES (AMORES) EPISTLES OF HEROINES ART OF LOVE COSMETICS OF THE FEMALE FACE REMEDIES FOR LOVE
MID CAREER IN LARGE-SCALE POETRY, AD 2-8 METAMORPHOSES
MID CAREER IN LARGE-SCALE POETRY, AD 2-8 METAMORPHOSES THE ROMAN CALENDAR (FASTI)
AD 8: A POEM AND AN ERROR CARMEN ET ERROR LOVES (AMORES) EPISTLES OF HEROINES ART OF LOVE COSMETICS OF THE FEMALE FACE REMEDIES FOR LOVE METAMORPHOSES THE ROMAN CALENDAR (FASTI)
EXILE POETRY FROM THE BLACK SEA, AD 8 -death SORROWS (TRISTIA)
THE METAMORPHOSES (‘transformations’) theme: changes of shape wrought by gods structure: unified epic poem / collection of short poems? timeframe: from chaos to (Roman) cosmos
transformations of … bodily shape human relations, esp. sexual poetry and story-telling
transformations of … Chaos -> cosmos Ages of Man (gold -> silver -> bronze -> iron) Lycaon -> wolf Earth -> flood Recovery from flood: Deucalion and Pyrrha: stones-> people Python Daphne -> laurel Io -> cow -> Isis Syrinx -> Pan’s pipes Phaethon Phaethon’s sisters -> poplars and amber
Lycaon Augostino Musi 1524
Rubens (German)
Apollo and the Python
Deucalion and Pyrrha
Bernini c Pollaiuolo c. 1470
Apollo and Daphne Bernini c Pollaiuolo c. 1470
Correggio c. 1530
Io Correggio c. 1530
Jordaens 1625Poussin 1690
Michaelangelo c. 1533
Phaethon Michaelangelo c John Singer Sargeant
transformations of …
bodily shape human relations, esp. sexual poetry and story-telling
transformations of … bodily shape human relations, esp. sexual poetry and story-telling Stephen Hinds
THE METAMORPHOSES (‘transformations’) encyclopaedia of myth and of the cosmos