CFP: Epic and Destiny (AOQU)

CFP: Epic and Destiny (AOQU)

Call for papers for the upcoming issue of AOQU dedicated to Freedom and Necessity of Heroic Action between Antiquity and Modernity. English version below. Italian and French versions on the AOQU website: https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/aoqu/call-for-paper «AOQU»...
Jangar: The Heroic Epic of the Kalmyk Nomads

Jangar: The Heroic Epic of the Kalmyk Nomads

Translated by Saglar Bougdaeva (University of California Press, 2023). “This is the first English translation of Jangar, the heroic epic of the Kalmyk nomads, who are the Western Mongols of Genghis Khan’s medieval empire in Europe. Today, Kalmykia is situated in...
New Film Adaptation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses

New Film Adaptation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Anime galleggianti (Wandering Souls) reinterprets the stories of the most intriguing characters of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, including Persephone, Arachne, Callisto, Europa, Daphne and Orpheus. The transformations of forms into new bodies are narrated by the Parca who...