Greek Myth in Art II: Ovid's Metamorphoses 

In this study we’ll read selections from Ovid’s Metamorphoses and discuss the text together with a wide range of paintings inspired by it. We will focus on the following myths: Ovid’s creation myth, Apollo and Daphne, Jupiter and Io, Echo and Narcissus, Bacchus and Ariadne, Arachne, Prometheus, Orpheus, Pluto and Persephone, Phaeton, Daedelus, Icarus, Hercules. 

Here is a preview of the artworks we will discuss in this study which was inspired by Sean Forester’s recent visit to the Metamorphoses exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

JOINING DETAILS:

• Four-meeting study led by Sean Forester, live on Zoom
• Mondays 6.00-8.00 pm (UK time), 7, 14, 21 & 28 September 2026
• Recommended text: you may use any translation you prefer, providing it has line numbers clearly marked. Two good options are Metamorphoses translated by Stephanie McCarter (Penguin Classics) or Metamorphoses: The New Annotated Edition translated by Rolfe Humphries (Indiana University Press).
• £160 for four two-hour meetings