Location
Diamond 242
Start Date
1-5-2014 11:00 AM
End Date
1-5-2014 12:00 PM
Project Type
Presentation
Description
Augustus suppressed Ovids more risque works during his lifetime, and the poets works have faced occasional censorship ever since. But how has this bawdy poet fared with the modern academic establishment? Take a journey through a history of censorship at Colby College over the past two hundred years to investigate how, when, and why the works of Ovid disappeared from the curriculum. What role did individual professors or Colby presidents play in removing authors or texts from the Latin syllabus? Did certain periods in American history prompt the withdrawal of particular works? Which other Latin authors were popular (or shunned) through the past two centuries of scholarship. We often take the Classics for granted, given that they were written so long ago, but this history of Ovid at Colby reveals just how dynamic the discipline has been over the decades, and how even within the walls of a liberal arts institution, we must always be vigilant against censorship!
Faculty Sponsor
Kim Besio
Sponsoring Department
Colby College. Classics Dept.
CLAS Field of Study
Humanities
Event Website
http://www.colby.edu/clas
ID
700
Censored by Omission: The History of Colby's Latin Curriculum
Diamond 242
Augustus suppressed Ovids more risque works during his lifetime, and the poets works have faced occasional censorship ever since. But how has this bawdy poet fared with the modern academic establishment? Take a journey through a history of censorship at Colby College over the past two hundred years to investigate how, when, and why the works of Ovid disappeared from the curriculum. What role did individual professors or Colby presidents play in removing authors or texts from the Latin syllabus? Did certain periods in American history prompt the withdrawal of particular works? Which other Latin authors were popular (or shunned) through the past two centuries of scholarship. We often take the Classics for granted, given that they were written so long ago, but this history of Ovid at Colby reveals just how dynamic the discipline has been over the decades, and how even within the walls of a liberal arts institution, we must always be vigilant against censorship!
https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/clas/2014/program/182