2020 Cleveland Humanities Festival: Ovid, Actaeon, and the Truths of Myth

In her talk Carole Newlands, Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, will explore the tension between voyeurism and victimhood that runs through the Actaeon myth in literature and the visual arts from Ovid to the present, as artists and writers have continued to engage with the controversy raised by Ovid in his narrative of Actaeon, thus demonstrating the enduring importance of myth in exploring broader political and cultural truths. This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Classics. Registration requested.