5/19/2023 0 Comments Poet of metamorphoses![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Events unfolded at two beautiful venues, with a first gathering among the orange trees of the open atrium at the Casa delle Letterature in central Rome, and the subsequent evening taking place at the American Academy in Rome’s Villa Aurelia, looking out upon the ancient city from the heights of the Janiculum Hill.Įvents were launched by their organizer, Andrew Heiskell Arts Director, Karl Kirchwey, FAAR’95, and began with a discussion about Shakespeare and Ovid between the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard, Stephen Greenblatt, RAAR’10, Senior Research Fellow and Honorary Professor of Latin, Philip Hardie of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Professor of English at Boston University, Christopher Martin. O’Boyle, the Syde Hurdus Foundation, the Casa delle Letterature di Roma Capitale, and the British School at Rome and arranged in collaboration with the Keats-Shelley House. The event was generously supported by Nancy M. Last Thursday and Friday evenings saw the unfolding of a series of readings, conversations, and exchanges among scholars and writers of various disciplines who share a common interest in the Roman poet Ovid. ![]()
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