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Hosted by Nicole Waligora-Davis, School of Humanities and Arts Associate Dean and Alan Dugald McKillip Associate Professor in the Department of English and Creative Writing, Humanities NOW conversations are open to all Rice students, faculty and staff, and the larger Houston community.
The Epic Re-Mixed: An Aeneid for Now
Join us Wednesday, Oct. 29, from 12 - 1:30 p.m. in Herring Hall 100, as Denva Gallant, assistant professor of Art History, engages Scott McGill, Deedee McMurtry Professor in Humanities, and Susannah Wright ’18, assistant professor of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures, in discussion about a project nearly eight years in the making, their collaborative translation of Rome’s epic origin story. This new Aeneid is rendered in an unrhymed iambic pentameter that engages modern readers while preserving the epic dignity and pathos of the original. Their version faithfully conveys the poem’s delicate balance between its triumphant celebration of the Roman Empire and its sensitivity to the human costs of antiquity’s most powerful and influential society.
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