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Can we escape our fate? Why do we go back to a story we know well? In this episode of Watch Next<\/em>, we revisit the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice as depicted in C\u00e9line Sciama\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Portrait of a lady on fire  <\/em>(C\u00e9line Sciamma, 2019)Ovid\u2019s Metamorphoses<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Zeltzyn Rubi Sanchez Lozoya<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0is Assistant Professor of Instruction\u00a0at The University of Texas at Austin. She specializes in World Cinema, primarily Indian cinema, women filmmakers, and streaming platforms. Her first book,\u00a0Female Lead: India's Women Filmmakers in the Age of Netflix<\/em>, is slated for publication in 2026 by Routledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Deborah Beck is Professor of Classics and Christie and Stanley E. Adams, Jr. Centennial Professor in Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on how Classical Epic poetry tells a good story that connects emotionally with its audience(s), primarily, but not exclusively, Homer\u2019s Iliad and Odyssey. Her most recent book is The Stories of Similes in Greek and Roman Epic<\/a> (Cambridge, 2023). In addition to her academic research, she regularly publishes opinion essays in Texas and national publications. With her advanced Greek students, she produces the podcast \u201cMusings in Greek Literature.<\/a>\u201d\u00a0 For her latest project, she is writing a new book, Visionary Women<\/em>, about four passionate women artists, their art, and their fans through the ages. The book discusses Sappho, Hildegard of Bingen, Emily Dickinson, and Frida Kahlo.\u00a0
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Episode 4 – Portrait of a Lady on Fire with Deborah Beck<\/a><\/blockquote>