In the 17th century, harmonious sounds were thought to represent the well-ordered body of
the obedient subject, and, by extension, the well-ordered state; conversely, discordant …

Controversial efforts to find political allegory in Dido and Aeneas (c. 1689), the great
chamber opera by Nahum Tate and Henry Purcell, have obscured the opera's broader …

Even during the formative period, Ovid's poetry provided the subject matter for a number of
high‐profile Renaissance court performances combining ancient mythological narratives …

Ovid's Heroides is a collection of letters written in the 1st century bce supposedly by women,
mainly from Greek mythology. 1 What is striking about this relatively early Ovidian work is …

This dissertation explores the benefits of alliances between painting and music in the first
half of eighteenth-century France, as it recasts the Académie Royale de Peinture et de …

This article does not discuss the intertextual allusions to Ovidian epistolography in Pliny's
letters, but puts forward the claim that women in both Ovid's and Pliny's letters are part of a …

In Mark Morris's Dido and Aeneas (1989) audiences witness a complex web of historical and
cultural concerns that not only overlap with those of the story's historical and aesthetic …

Mark Morris has said that he first imagined choreographing and dancing Dido and Aeneas
as a solo. It was the mid-1980s, and the AIDS epidemic was ravaging the dance world.“I just …