This tag: Greek Myths
Great Voyages from Greek and Roman Myths – Jason, Odysseus and Aeneas A detailed examination of the voyages and their fantastical encounters relating them to reality. This course was run at the National Maritime Museum on Sunday 28th January 2018. It was repeated at the City Lit on Saturday 18th January 2020 and then online… Read more »
- Posted on: January 22, 2018
- Featured in History, History features
- Also tagged Aeneas, Ancient Greece, Ancient History, Ancient Rome, Argonauts, Circe, Dido, Homer, Jason, Maritime Greenwich, Medea, Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time, National Maritime Museum, Odysseus, Polyphemus, Roman Myths, Scylla and Charybdis, Virgil
This tag: Greek Myths
Using literary sources and objects in the British Museum and elsewhere we compared and contrasted the attitude of the Ancient Greeks to women in society, as figures in mythology and as goddesses. We examined the position of women in Ancient Greece and the Greek colonies as well as the attitude to women as seen as… Read more »