Department of Classical Studies
Thursday, April 11, 2024 - 4:45pm to 6:15pm
402 Cohen Hall, 249 South 36th St.
*4:15-4:45 pm: Coffee and cookies in Cohen Hall 2nd Floor Lounge. All are welcome.
Speaker: Sara Myers, Professor of Classics, University of Virginia
Abstract: This talk will focus primarily on Ovid’s two Italian rape narratives, Pomona in Metamorphoses 14 and Flora in Fasti 5 (183-206), both of which seem to be original to Ovid. I will argue that the episodes should be considered as in dialogue with each other and reveal a preoccupation with boundaries– sexual, spatial, generic, and textual¬– and their violation. I will then suggest that this pattern is continued in the other two Italian rape narratives of the Fasti, Lara (2.611-16) and Carna/Cranaë (6.1.125-30).