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通識沙龍 – Death Becomes Her: The Suicide of Cleopatra in Literature and Art
2011年2月18日
晚上7-9時
科學館 1 號演講廳
Prof. Robert Gurval Visiting Fulbright Scholar 2010-11, Office of University General Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Department of Classics, University of California, Los Angeles
26098955
The suicide of Cleopatra has bequeathed to western culture one of the most famous and memorable death scenes in literature, drama and the visual arts of painting, sculpture and film. The traditional story derives chiefly from the rich narrative of Plutarch’s biography of Mark Antony. Its action is driven by multiple themes of deception, deliberation, and death. The climactic moment, of course, is the bite of the asp. Surveying the literary and visual representations of Cleopatra’s dramatic death, from Horace’s celebrated Cleopatra Ode to the HBO cable network series Rome, this lecture will explore the potent symbolism of the suicide in classical antiquity and subsequent eras. It will try to answer the question whether her final act of dying by the serpent’s bite redeems Cleopatra and death becomes her.
英語主講
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查詢：rcge@cuhk.edu.hk
網上報名 ：http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/oge/gesalon
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主辦：
香港中文大學 大學通識教育部 通識教育研究中心
贊助：
鄭承隆通識教育及哲學研究基金
