Students in CLAS 122: Myth, Power and Identity in the Graeco-Roman World enjoyed a very special event that took place in a lecture held on Tuesday Aug. 4th.
Natalie Haynes joined the class – live from the UK – and enlightened us all when she joined Patrick O’Sullivan for a discussion of women in Greek myth, including figures such as Pandora, Medea, and Helen of Troy (among others).
A Cambridge Classics graduate, Natalie is a renowned author, novelist, comedian, broadcaster and expert in Greek and Roman literature and culture; she is also the star of the BBC podcast Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics.
She has visited NZ numerous times as a guest of various literary festivals, knows the Classics dept. here at UC, and her next book, due to appear in October, is Pandora’s Jar: Women in the Greek Myths.
The session was recorded however, do note the transcript contains numerous errors and should generally be discarded…
We were privileged to have such a public champion of Classics involved in the course and, to our delight, Natalie has expressed interest in doing a similar session again before too long!
