Psyche amongst the Victorians: An Aspect of Apuleian Reception
Stephen Harrison, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
This talk considers the extensive reception in Victorian England of Apuleius'
story of Cupid and Psyche from his second-century Latin novel Metamorphoses
(The Golden Ass), in both poetry and prose, and concludes by looking at the rich
reception of the story in art in the period, especially in the work of Sir Edward Burne-Jones.
Stephen Harrison has been teaching Classics at Corpus since 1987. His main research and teaching interests are in Latin literature and its reception. He has written books on Virgil, Horace and on the Roman novelist Apuleius, and has edited, co-edited or co-authored more than twenty books on Virgil, Horace, the Roman Novel, Classics and literary theory and Latin literature in general, and on the reception of classical literature; his most recent monograph is Framing The Ass: Literary Texture in Apuleius' Metamorphoses (OUP, 2013), and his commentary on Horace Odes 2 will appear with CUP in 2016. He is currently working on further books on the receptions of Horace and Apuleius. He is very interested in how Classics is taught and researched elsewhere in the world. Outside his tutorial duties (still very much the core of what he does) he has been a visiting lecturer in five continents, makes regular visits to North America and Italy, has recently become more involved in classics in Malta, Brazil and Japan, and worked for some years on collaborative Latin commentary projects in the Netherlands and Germany; he is an occasional visiting professor at the University of Copenhagen.
story of Cupid and Psyche from his second-century Latin novel Metamorphoses
(The Golden Ass), in both poetry and prose, and concludes by looking at the rich
reception of the story in art in the period, especially in the work of Sir Edward Burne-Jones.
Stephen Harrison has been teaching Classics at Corpus since 1987. His main research and teaching interests are in Latin literature and its reception. He has written books on Virgil, Horace and on the Roman novelist Apuleius, and has edited, co-edited or co-authored more than twenty books on Virgil, Horace, the Roman Novel, Classics and literary theory and Latin literature in general, and on the reception of classical literature; his most recent monograph is Framing The Ass: Literary Texture in Apuleius' Metamorphoses (OUP, 2013), and his commentary on Horace Odes 2 will appear with CUP in 2016. He is currently working on further books on the receptions of Horace and Apuleius. He is very interested in how Classics is taught and researched elsewhere in the world. Outside his tutorial duties (still very much the core of what he does) he has been a visiting lecturer in five continents, makes regular visits to North America and Italy, has recently become more involved in classics in Malta, Brazil and Japan, and worked for some years on collaborative Latin commentary projects in the Netherlands and Germany; he is an occasional visiting professor at the University of Copenhagen.
| Building: | Angell Hall |
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| Event Type: | Lecture / Discussion |
| Tags: | Classical Studies, History |
| Source: | Happening @ Michigan from Comparative Literature, Institute for the Humanities, Contexts for Classics |
