| Course Title: Ovid: Metamorphoses |
| Start Date: 09/03/2025 End Date: 12/16/2025 |
| Term: Fall Semester 2025 |
| Description: A study of Ovid's ambitious epic celebrating change and transformative forces, with attention to the challenges it poses to traditional Roman values and to conventional Roman notions of the work appropriate to a poet. In particular, consideration will be given to the way Ovid's poem subversively responds to Vergil's work. |
| Distribution(s): I - Humanities , LANG - Language |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Bruce Arnold | 413-538-2872 | barnold@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 09/03/2025 - 12/16/2025 | Lecture | Tuesday | 04:45PM - 06:00PM | SKNR - Skinner Hall | 301 | Weekly |
| 09/03/2025 - 12/16/2025 | Lecture | Friday | 08:30PM - 09:45PM | SKNR - Skinner Hall | 301 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| Prereq: Two courses in Latin at the 200-level or any 300-level Latin course. | Take previously | Required |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Taught in Latin. |
| Course Tags | ||
| CLASS0001 | CLAS: Classical Studies major | This course has been approved to count towards the Classical Studies major and/or minor. |
| CLASS0001 | CLAS: Classical Studies minor | This course has been approved to count towards the Classical Studies major and/or minor. |
| CLASS0003 | CLAS-LM: Classical Studies - Literary/Mythological | This course has been approved to count towards the Classical Studies major in the Literary/Mythological subject area. |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open | Capacity: 18 | Enrollment: 9 | Available: 9 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: Ovid's Metamorphoses: Books 6-10 Author: Ed., Anderson, William Copyright: 1978 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 0806114568 Publisher: Univ. of Oklahoma Press |
Required | 32.95 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is the complete book list for this class. |
| Instructor's comments about the book list: I will supplement this text with some vocabulary helps. |