the story of IPHIS
by Publius Ovidius Naso, known in English as "Ovid"
Friday 21 November at 5pm SLT
Sunday 23 November at 10am SLT
Join ROMA Sande Amici as we sit and hear the story of Iphis, taken from Ovid's "Metamorphoses," to observe Transgender Day of Remembrance. The myth follows the standard plot "boy meets girl, girl likes boy and boy likes girl" — but complications arise, because Iphis isn't quite exactly a boy! Raised up by his mother as a boy to protect him, Iphis is female-bodied — but all that changes on his wedding night...
The event will be held twice:
Friday 21 November at 5pm SLT at the School of Sandum Sociocultural Work in Colonia Nova - http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/C ... 100/206/44
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Sunday 23 November at 10am SLT at the ROMA Sande Amici plot in ROMA Subura - http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/R ... a/49/30/24
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The reading of Iphis is from the Ninth Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses, translated by Frank Justus Miller for the Loeb Classical Library. A short presentation will be prepared before the telling of the story about transgender identities and the sexual and gender ambivalence of Classical myth by Gaius Tiberius Curio (Guillaume Mistwalker), in preparation for the 2015 Mid-Atlantic Undergraduate Classics Conference. A discussion of the story and trans* people will follow the reading of the story of Iphis.