Dissertation Meeting (17.3.2020)
*All the supervisions from now on will be taking place on Skype or phone call, this is the way that it needs to happen*
Questions/Titles Sheet feedback:
- Articles that might be pretty helpful (Heroides 12, by Davies) (Stephen Hine, Lives of the intertextual Heroine) (Newlands, the metamorphoses of Ovid’s Medea).
- Don’t perhaps focus too much upon the tragic character of Medea.
- The idea of transformations with Medea (Could this work as a title, do I want to focus on how Medea transforms across the different texts of Ovid?
- Adaptations of tragic monologues in both the Metamorphoses and the Heroides.
Start by looking at the monologues in the Metamorphoses and the Heroides. Talk about the form of monologue specifically and analyse the language.
We have access to the transformation of Medea more in Ovid – greater sense of pathos? Greater appreciation of aspects of humanity? Perhaps ironic that Ovid’s Medea comes across as more ‘pathetic’ than those seen in the tragedies themselves.
Saving of Aeson and killing of Pelias.
Magic is a force that has the power to change – central force in the Metamorphoses.
‘Karmena’ in Latin means both spells and poetry.
*Write a comparision between Heroides 12 and the opening soliloquy in the Metamorphoses.
Final Question quite interesting…
By the next meeting: Look at the opening soliloquy in Ovid’s Metamorphoses and do some in-depth analysis.
Jacobson 1970 ‘Ovid’s Heroides’.
Lauren Falkedson book on the Heroides.
Stephen Hine’s article on intertextuality in Ovid.
