Ovid and After

Friday 22 June 2012, 7.00PM to 8.45pm

Speaker(s): Judith Buchanan (York) and Hugh Haughton (York)

A two-part lecture (part of the Festival of Ideas), exploring some of the rich and varied ways in which the wonderful, funny and disturbing stories in Ovid's Metamorphoses have been re-used by subsequent writers.

7.00pm Part I: 'Shameless plundering?: Shakespeare, The Metamorphoses and the classics' (Judith Buchanan)

7.40pm: Interval with drinks reception

8.00pm Part II: 'Metamorphosing The Metamorphoses: Ovid in Twentieth-century poetry' (Hugh Haughton)

Admission: By free ticket only, available from yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets

Location: Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building