Online Open House | The Cecropids and an Attic Aetiology in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, with Miriam Kamil

Online Open House | The Cecropids and an Attic Aetiology in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, with Miriam Kamil

We are excited to welcome Miriam Kamil, a 5th year PhD candidate in classical philology at Harvard University for an On Line Open House. The topic of the discussion is: The Cecropids and an Attic Aetiology in Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

The event will be streamed live on Thursday, November 21 at 11 a.m. EST, and will be recorded.

In preparation, you might like to read two articles at Classical Inquiries:

• A sampling of comments on Pausanias: 1.18.1–9
  https://classical-inquiries.chs.harvard.edu/a-sampling-of-comments-on-pausanias-1-18-1-9/

• A sampling of comments on Pausanias: 1.24.8–1
  https://classical-inquiries.chs.harvard.edu/a-sampling-of-comments-on-pausanias-1-24-8-1-27-3/

You can watch the event on the Center for Hellenic Studies YouTube channel.
The recording will be posted here afterwards.
Miriam Kamil is a fifth year PhD candidate in classical philology at Harvard University.

Her dissertation is on the literary tradition of the Furies as adapted by Ovid in his Metamorphoses, under the tutelage of Richard Thomas, Greg Nagy, and Richard Tarrant.