This lecture by Peggy McCracken (University of Michigan) will focus on the translation of Ovid's Actaeon story in the fourteenth-century Ovide moralisé, where the translated story receives two interpretive readings: a euhemerist interpretation identifies the historical man who could have inspired the story and then the narrator explains the story as an allegory of Christian truth. She will use the Deleuzian notion of becoming-animal to explore this story about a man who loved dogs, and show that the three narratives (translation, historical reading, allegorical interpretation) explain the value of human-animal relations, they also reveal the stakes of being and becoming for Christian identity and Christian salvation.

This event is open to all and free to attend, booking required. 

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