Ovid

Ovid's Missing Corpus

5:00pm - 6:30pm / Tuesday 25th April 2017 / Venue: Seminar Room 4 Rendall Building
Type: Seminar / Category: Department / Series: Classics and Ancient History Seminar Series
  • Suitable for: Anybody interested in the topic, including university staff and students and member of the public.
  • Admission: Admission is free, please contact Alexei Zadorozhny to register: avzadoro@liverpool.ac.uk
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Making an equation between the poet's body (corpus) and the poet's body of work, Ovid’s texts are obsessed with the presence and afterlife of the poet’s physical remains. Those remains — which in reality were never discovered — constitute a pervasive “absent presence” in the poet’s reception history. This paper examines some of the attempts made in reception to fill the gap left by the absence of Ovid's bones, by which writers, artists and archaeologists used Ovid’s textual corpus to supply the absence of the poet’s material body.

Speaker: Dr Nora Goldschmidt