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New for 2023: Victorian Poetry Scroll back for previous courses on Shakespeare, Eighteenth Century Poetry, Close Reading, Various film genres, Film and Philosophy, the Western Canon, Early Romantics, 17th Century Poetry, etc.
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Sunday Oct 17, 2010
Ovid and the Ovidian Milton
Sunday Oct 17, 2010
Sunday Oct 17, 2010
First class on Ovid -- Milton's versions of Ovidian creation (from Chaos and pure matter, not ab nihilo) and of Proserpine gathering flowers. Ovid's mythic consistency compared to Plato's theory of the consistency or coherence of truth. Brief account of the parable of the cave in the Republic,
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