Natalie's book 'A Thousand Ships' is available here: www.also-festi... Join renowned classicist Natalie Haynes for her new series of short videos on Ovid's Herodes.
So good! I enjoy all of your stand-ups. They make me laugh, make me think. Most of all, perhaps, they help me to make some sort of sense as to what it means to be human. Thank you!
I've read very little Ovid, he was banned in my Jesuit school, but one poem above all is my favourite, this is devoted to Corinna (The Amores I. v). Each of his description of the atmosphere, her clothing and shape, her beauty, is sublime (leaving aside the tricky question of whether she has consented). Above all I love his nonchalance in dealing with the act of sex, as though this is of minor importance. "Ceteras quis nescit?" So different from our prurient age where the cry is for detail, detail and yet more detail.
Ms. Haynes is amazing
So good! I enjoy all of your stand-ups. They make me laugh, make me think. Most of all, perhaps, they help me to make some sort of sense as to what it means to be human. Thank you!
I've read very little Ovid, he was banned in my Jesuit school, but one poem above all is my favourite, this is devoted to Corinna (The Amores I. v). Each of his description of the atmosphere, her clothing and shape, her beauty, is sublime (leaving aside the tricky question of whether she has consented). Above all I love his nonchalance in dealing with the act of sex, as though this is of minor importance. "Ceteras quis nescit?" So different from our prurient age where the cry is for detail, detail and yet more detail.
You are so irrepressible! Congratulations