Hey friends!
Hope your Autumn is off to a great start. We’re planning to meet for our Gap Year discussion of Ovid’s Metamorphoses sometime early in November. If you don’t think you’ll be able to finish the entire book by then, don’t worry — Lucy was kind enough to provide some suggested excerpts around which we can have our discussion. The following page numbers assume you’re reading the Penguin Classics edition of Metamorphoses, translated by David Raeburn.
Deucalion and Pyrrha (21)
Actaeon (99)
Teiresias (108)
Narcissus and Echo (109)
Pentheus and Bacchus 1; Acoetes and the Lydian Sailors; Pentheus and Bacchus 2 (117)
Pyramus and Thisbe (133)
Salmacis and Aphroditus (144)
Tereus, Procne and Philomela (230)
Philemon and Baucis (323)
Iphis (372)
It’s hard to make selections from such a large piece of work, so many thanks to Lucy for that. Hopefully these readings will give you a full sense of the themes and scope of Ovid’s work.
Happy reading!
Robbie