Winter 2024 Cohort:
Queer Themes in Classic Lit.

The Reading List 📖

This page links to the texts, as they're in the public domain.

Audio companions for the texts are available for group study!

Ovid's Metamorphosis

Book 9: Iphis and Ianthe

~1,200 words || 7 minutes

Catullus 63

Attis, Driven to Madness

~900 words || 5 minutes

Ovid's Metamorphosis

Book 2: Jove Rapes Callisto

~1,200 words || 7 minutes

St. Augustine, The Confessions

Book 4: The Death of an Old Friend

~3,600 words || 20 minutes

Sir Gawain & the Green Knight

The Original Bi-Disaster

~19,000 words || 120 minutes

Ovid's Metamorphosis

Book 3: Tiresias

~200 words || 1 minute

Image Attribution:

Iphis and Ianthe: Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene, Simeon Solomon, watercolor on paper, 1864.
Attis: Sculpture of Attis in the Uffizi Gallery, marble, c.100.
Augustine: The Conversion of Saint Augustine, Fra Angelico, 1430.
Sir Gawain: God Speed, Edmund Leighton, oil on canvas, 1900.
Tiresias: Tiresias Transformed into a Woman, Pietro della Vecchia, oil on canvas, c. 1626.

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