Alison Sharrock
alisonsharrock.bsky.social
Alison Sharrock
@alisonsharrock.bsky.social
Professor of Latin, University of Manchester
ecocritic currently reading Ovid's Metamorphoses in the light of climate change
I'm giving a talk at a workshop tomorrow, 'in' Toronto (by zoom), about what Latin literature can do with ecocriticism. I am going to say that I think we need to make major reductions in flying for such purposes. What do others think? Can/should academia stop its addiction to conferences?
April 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I would like to tell the Bluesky community about an article I have just had published, which reads an ancient poem through a 21st-century lens. It's about a time when a young man tried to drive the chariot of the sun, which went horribly badly and burnt the earth.
ovidiusjournal.org/ojs/index.ph...
Ovid’s Phaethon: Anthropogenic Global Heating, Ancient and Modern | Ovidius: Journal of the International Ovidian Society
ovidiusjournal.org
January 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM