LAT30020

Learning Outcomes:

On completion of this module students will be able to:

- Translate the set texts with fluency and a full awareness of nuance and style
- Recognise the main features of Ovid's and Lucan's style
- Recall in detail the major events of Ovid's "Theban History" and compare them with other ancient sources (e.g., Euripides' Bacchae)
- Analyse the major themes of book 3 within the framework of the Metamorphoses as a whole

Indicative Module Content:

This module is language intensive, focused on Latin-to-English translation of unadapted passages of Ovid, with some additional reading from Lucan that should be pursued privately. Students should expect to read c.700 lines of Latin on this module.

Student Effort Hours:

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:

Class time will be devoted to translation of the primary text, with some discussion of points of cultural and literary interest along the way.

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.

Module Requisites and Incompatibles

Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy

 

Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Students will sit two mid-semester examinations, relating to the passages of text they have translated and discussed in classes in previous weeks. Feedback will be delivered in a follow-up class, in which they will review and discuss their answers

Anderson. W. S. (1997). Ovid's Metamorphoses.: Books 1-5. Norman (Okla.): University of Oklahoma Pr. This is the assigned text, and should be available in the campus bookshop.
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Anderson, W. S. (1993). “Form Changed: Ovid’s Metamorphoses.” In Boyle, A. J. (Ed.). Roman Epic. London; New York: Routledge.

Due, O. S. (1974). Changing forms. Studies in the Metamorphoses of Ovid. Copenhagen: Gyldendal.

Fantham, E. (2004). Ovid's Metamorphoses. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Pr.

Galinsky, G. K. (1975). Ovid's Metamorphoses. An introduction in the basic aspects. Oxford: Blackwell.

Hardie, P. R. (ed.). (2002). The Cambridge companion to Ovid. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Pr.

Hinds, S. (1998). Allusion and intertext: dynamics of appropriation in Roman poetry. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Pr.

Janan, M. W. (2009). Reflections in a serpent's eye: Thebes in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Pr.

Kyriakidis, S. (2013). Ovid’s Metamorphoses: the text before and after. Leeds International Classical Studies, 11(1), 17 p.

Little, D. H. (1965). “The Pentheus episode. Ovid, Met. III,511-733”. In Adams, M. (Ed.), Aulla. Proceedings of the Ninth Congress of the Australasian Universities' Languages and Literature Association, Melbourne 19-26 August 1964 (pp. 30). Melbourne.

Liveley, G. (2003). “Tiresias/Teresa: a «man-made-woman» in Ovid's Metamorphoses 3.318-38”. Helios, 30(2), 147-162.

Mack, S. (1988). Ovid. New Haven (Conn.): Yale University Pr.

Maciver, C. A. (2017). “Vergil and the death of Pentheus in Ovid, Metamorphoses 3”. Philologus, 161(1), 145-161.

McNamara, J. (2010). “The frustration of Pentheus: narrative momentum in Ovid's Metamorphoses, 3.511-731”. Classical Quarterly, N. S., 60(1), 173-193.

Otis, B. (1971). Ovid as an epic poet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Pr.

Prauscello, L. (2008). “Juno's wrath again: some Virgilian echoes in Ovid, Met. 3.253-315”. Classical Quarterly, N. S., 58(2), 565-570.

Raval, S. (2003). “Stealing the language: Echo in Metamorphoses 3”. In Thibodeau, Philip & Haskell, Harry (Eds.), Being there together: essays in honor of Michael C. J. Putnam on the occasion of his seventieth birthday (pp. 204-221). Afton (Minn.): Afton Historical Society Pr.

Richardson, T. W. (2019). “Of a love beyond repair: gender, eros and ethos in Ovid’s Narcissus (Met. 3.339-510)”. Mouseion, 16(1), 171-183.

Rosati, G. (2021). Narcissus and Pygmalion: illusion and spectacle in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Oxford: Oxford University Pr.
Solodow, J. B. (1988). The world of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Pr.

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