Yelena Baraz, Princeton University. “Ovid’s Bystanders. From Trauma to Complicity”
Tuesday, April 8th, 2025. 4:10 pm. Cohen 203.
This talk will examine Roman ideas about the ethically and emotionally fraught position of the bystander as explored by Ovid in the Metamorphoses. The figure of the bystander raises questions about responsibility, identification, trauma, and complicity. Ovid’s treatment implicates the reader by creating a parallel between the bystander and the audience.
Free and Open to the Public.