Published: March 26, 2024

Searching for the Goddess of Countless Names: Isis, Gender, and Ethnic Identity in Vergil and Ovid

Lily Panoussi
Thursday, April 18, 2024
5pm -

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ABSTRACT

This presentation will focus on the depiction of the goddess Isis in Vergil's Aeneid and Ovid's Metamorphoses.ÌýThe two authors seem to exploit her gender and ethnic identity to strengthen oppositions between male and female, Roman and foreign, victor and victim, establishing a Roman hegemonic narra-tive. However, the texts' embracing of Isis' Greek counterpart Io as champion of the defeated tells a different story about the clarity of these distinctions in Augustan Rome.

This event is sponsored by the Department of Classics, the Center for Humanities andÌýthe Arts, and The Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization

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