Australian Education Office Guide to Australian Short Courses
OVID in the Margins of the Mind
Focus:
Analysis of selected Ovid texts
Location:
Hobart, University of Tasmania
Duration:
3 weeks (June 30 - July 4)
Credit:
4 semester credits through University of Tasmania
Cost:
$2022 includes tuition and two excursions. Does not include airfare, accommodation, or meals.
Contact:
Dr. Peter Davis
Department of Classics
University of Tasmania
GPO Box 252C
Hobart, TAS 7001 AUSTRALIA
Phone: 011-61-3-6226-2290
email: [email protected]
Description:
The classics department at the University of Tasmania is offering fifteen 3 hour seminars on Ovid for Classics and Comparative literature graduate students. The course will be taught by Professor Anthony Boyle (University of Southern California), Dr. Peter Davis (University of Tasmania), and Dr. Marcus Wilson (University of Auckland). The aim of the course is to combine a detailed survey of Ovid's extensive poetic corpus with intensive linguistic, critical and cultural examination of selected texts. Approximately 1,000 lines of Latin will be studied in each of the three weeks. Texts include Amores, Metamorphoses, Gosti and much more. Students will be assigned classwork and examined weekly. Two optional excursions to Port Arthur Historical Site, and to Launceston's vineyards have been planned.