Want to improve your reading fluency in Ancient Greek and learn more about ancient Greek culture? Please join us for the Dickinson Ancient Greek Workshop! What: Dickinson Ancient Greek Workshop When: August 9-13, 2021 Where: Zoom link to be provided to registered participants Text: Ps-Demosthenes, Against Neaira Fragment of a terracotta lebes gamikos, ca. 440 BC. Metropolitan Museum, New York. Delivered sometime in the late 340s BCE, Against Neaira traces Neaira’s life from her youth as a sex worker and argues that her children with an Athenian citizen man are illegitimate. The speech i ..read more

http://blogs.dickinson.edu/latin-poetry-podcast/files/2020/08/Seneca-Hercules-Furens-podcast-2.mp3 Juno has just finished her opening monologue in which she whips herself into a frenzy of rage at Hercules. As the chorus enters, they sing of the dawn, then deliver an encomium of the simple country life, away from the ambition, greed, and corruption of city life. (Seneca apparently knew little of country life, which can be just as full of ambition, greed, and corruption as city life. But the sentiments are conventional.) The poetry here is more lyrical and contemplative than the thrusting, fiery ..read more

http://blogs.dickinson.edu/latin-poetry-podcast/files/2020/08/Seneca-Hercules-Furens-podcast-1_1-29.mp3 “Hercules Furens,” adapted, directed, and choreographed by John Farmanesh-Bocca. The Miles Memorial Playhouse, 2013. Photo by Anthony Roldan Soror Tonantis – hōc enim sōlum mihi nōmen relictum est – semper aliēnum Iovem ac templa summī vidua dēseruī aetheris, locumque caelō pulsa paelicibus dedī; tellūs colenda est, paelicēs caelum tenent.                 5 hinc Arctos altā parte glaciālis polī sublīme classēs ..read more

http://blogs.dickinson.edu/latin-poetry-podcast/files/2020/07/Ovid-Heroides-4-podcast-4.mp3 Despite my royal status and lineage, I am begging you. Spare me, please. May you get everything you want as a huntsman. tolle morās tantum properātaque foedera iunge — quī mihi nunc saevit, sīc tibi parcat Amor! nōn ego dēdignor supplex humilisque precārī. 150                                   heu! ubi nunc fastūs altaque verba iacent? et pu ..read more

http://blogs.dickinson.edu/latin-poetry-podcast/files/2020/07/Ovid-Heroides-4-podcast-3.mp3 Phaedra asks Hippolytus to put off his huntsman’s persona and relax, then offers to come out on the hunt with him. She offers to abandon Theseus and move to Troezen to be with Hippolytus. Theseus is already ignoring and slighting both of them, she argues. Their close family connection is no problem, even an asset. The affair will be easily concealed because of it. aequora bīna suīs oppugnant flūctibus Isthmon, 105 et tenuis tellūs audit utrumque mare. hīc tēcum Troezēna colam, Pitthēia rēgna; iam nunc e ..read more

http://blogs.dickinson.edu/latin-poetry-podcast/files/2020/07/Ovid-Heroides-4-podcast-2.mp3 Phaedra wants to take up hunting like Hippolytus and is driven to the extremes of mental derangement. Perhaps it is some family curse that the women of her Cretan line all suffer in love (Europa, Pasiphae, Ariadne)? Phaedra describes how attractive she found Hippolytus when she first saw him at Eleusis. See Peter J. Davis, “Rewriting Euripides: Ovid, Heriodes 4,” Scholia 4 (1995) 41-55. https://www.academia.edu/4756559/Rewriting_Euripides_Ovid_Heroides_4 Alexandre Cabanel, Phaedra, 1880. Oil on canvas ..read more

http://blogs.dickinson.edu/latin-poetry-podcast/files/2020/07/Ovid-Heroides-4-podcast-1.mp3 Sarah Bernhardt in the role of Racine’s Phèdre (Getty Museum) Quā, nisi tū dederis, caritūra est ipsa, salūtem mittit Amāzoniō Cressa puella virō. perlege, quodcumque est: quid epistula lēcta nocēbit? tē quoque in hāc aliquid quod iuvet esse potest; hīs arcāna notīs terrā pelagōque feruntur.   5 īnspicit acceptās hostis ab hoste notās. ter tēcum cōnāta loquī ter inūtilis haesit lingua, ter in prīmō restitit ōre sonus. quā licet et sequitur, pudor est miscendus amōrī; dīcere quae puduit, scr ..read more

http://blogs.dickinson.edu/latin-poetry-podcast/files/2020/06/Ovid-Heroides-3-podcast-1.mp3 There are still a couple of days left to sign up to join me and Chun Liu of Peking University for an online workshop reading Ovid’s Heroides, July 15-20, 2020: http://blogs.dickinson.edu/dcc/2020/05/03/2020-ovid-heroides-online-workshop-announcement/ Deadline to register is July 1, 2020. Quam legis, ā raptā Brīsēide littera vēnit, vix bene barbaricā Graeca notāta manū. quāscumque adspiciēs, lacrimae fēcēre litūrās; sed tamen et lacrimae pondera vōcis habent. Sī mihi pauca querī dē tē dominōque vir ..read more

http://blogs.dickinson.edu/latin-poetry-podcast/files/2020/06/Ovid-Heroides-2-podcast-2.mp3 Join me and Chun Liu of Peking University for an online workshop reading Ovid’s Heroides, July 15-20, 2020: http://blogs.dickinson.edu/dcc/2020/05/03/2020-ovid-heroides-online-workshop-announcement/ crēdidimus blandīs, quōrum tibi cōpia, verbīs; crēdidimus generī nōminibusque tuīs;       50 crēdidimus lacrimīs—an et hae simulāre docentur? hae quoque habent artēs, quāque iubentur, eunt? dīs quoque crēdidimus. quō iam tot pignora nōbīs? parte satis potuī quālibet inde capī. N ..read more

http://blogs.dickinson.edu/latin-poetry-podcast/files/2020/06/Ovid-Heroides-2-podcast-1.mp3 Woodcut from the Italian translation of the Heroides published by Sixtus Riessinger (Naples, 1474) Hospita, Dēmophoōn, tua tē Rhodopēia Phyllis ultrā prōmissum tempus abesse queror. cornua cum lūnae plēnō semel orbe coīssent, lītoribus nostrīs ancora pacta tua est— lūna quater latuit, tōtō quater orbe recrēvit;                     5 nec vehit Actaeās Sīthonis unda ratēs. tempora sī numerēs—bene quae numerāmu ..read more