Can we escape our fate? Why do we go back to a story we know well? In this episode of Watch Next, we revisit the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice as depicted in Céline Sciama’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Professor of Classics Deborah Beck talks to us about our human failings: doubt, temptation, and how the ancient Greeks told stories to understand ourselves and the world around us. It’s an old song, an old tale, that we sing again and again.
Works Discussed:
Portrait of a lady on fire (Céline Sciamma, 2019)Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
Guests
Deborah BeckProfessor of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin
Hosts
Zeltzyn Rubi Sanchez LozoyaAssistant Professor of Instruction at the University of Texas at Austin