This tag: Scylla and Charybdis
A detailed examination of the voyages and their fantastical encounters relating them to reality. What is the course about? A detailed examination of the voyages and their fantastical encounters relating them to reality. What topics will we cover? Jason’s voyage to collect the Golden Fleece was described by Apollonius of Rhodes in his Argonautica written… Read more »
- Posted on: January 16, 2021
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- Also tagged Aeneas, Ancient Greece, Ancient History, Ancient Rome, Art History, British Museum, Cyclops, Dido, European History, Greek Myths, Jason, Jason and the Argonauts, Odysseus, Sirens, Troy
This tag: Scylla and Charybdis
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
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- Also tagged Aeneas, Ancient Greece, Ancient History, Ancient Rome, Argonauts, Circe, Dido, Greek Myths, Homer, Jason, Maritime Greenwich, Medea, Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time, National Maritime Museum, Odysseus, Polyphemus, Roman Myths, Virgil