LAT 110 – Ovid
Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Prof. Kathleen N. Cruz
"My spirit moves me to tell of forms changed into new bodies." So begins Ovid's Metamorphoses, a sprawling poem of the 1st century CE that takes transformation as its central theme. In this course, we'll read selections from Ovid's poem and encounter along the way some of the most influential tellings of the many Greco-Roman myths that remain well known to this day. In doing so, we'll explore how many different wonderful and terrible shapes the act of metamorphosis itself might take as we learn how humans may shift into plants, animals, gods, and all that lies in between.