With just a few days remaining before the end of the year the Latin III class at Cardin elected to get a taste of ancient Epic poetry, as a prelude to next year’s study of Vergil’s Aeneid. The students, with a little coaxing from their teacher, decided to go with two selections from Ovid’s Metamorphoses: the stories of Pygmalion and Daedalus. We began with the tale of Pygmalion, the mythical sculptor who falls in love with his own creation, later brought to life by the goddess Venus after the artist’s many prayers. This story holds particular interest to this class since it was the inspiration for George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion and thus the Lerner and Lowe musical My Fair Lady, this year’s theatrical performance. With little time to focus on the intricacies of style and language, we are… read more
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Latin III Reads Pygmalion
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