How to Build a Heroine: Evening talk at the EOCCC

How to Build a Heroine

An evening talk by Dr Gail Trimble (Oxford)

27 February at 6 – 7pm

at the East Oxford Community Classics Centre (www.eoccc.org.uk)

Greek and Roman literature is full of heroic women who have been badly treated by men, and who take the stage to complain about and try to improve the circumstances in which they find themselves.  But what does it mean when a heroine with her own individual story expresses herself in words that have been spoken before by another woman in another myth?  This talk looks at two powerful and eloquent women from Latin poetry, Ariadne in Catullus’ 64th poem and Dido in Virgil’s Aeneid, to ask why ancient poets constructed their heroines in this way and why it matters that we notice.

All are welcome. Drinks included.

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