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When the ovidian studies symposium at the University of Huelva closed in October 2017, the guitarist and music professor at the University of Murcia, José Antonio Clemente Buhlal, performed a concert that included "The Manha de Carnaval" Marcel Carné incorporated in his "Black Orpheus".
It was a way of recognizing the vitality, the actuality and that permanent freshness that exude the poems of Ovid, "the most protean of the literature of Rome", twenty centuries after having been written.
Hence, the title chosen for the volume of the Studies on Ovid's work that collects the fruits of that symposium is precisely VIVAM !, the word with which his masterpiece ends, the Metamorphoses, considered as influential as the Bible for the artists from all over the world, and, above all, an express invitation to life.
How alive are his work and his figure that, in the words of the authors of the volume that has just appeared, "transcend the merely academic sphere".
VIVAM!
Studies on the work of Ovidio / Studies on Ovid's Poetry, publication that has obtained the seal of Quality in Academic Edition, demonstrates the good work of the "Nicolaus Heinsius" Group of the UHU in the field of Ovidian textual tradition and the Group of " Classical Mythology and Classical and Renaissance Latin Literature "of the UMU, whose research projects have been subsidized in addition to by the MINECO by the Seneca Foundation, which has financed this book.
The volume has been co-published by María Consuelo Álvarez and Rosa María Iglesias, UMU Professors, and Luis Rivero and Juan A. Estévez Sola, UHU Professors, organizers of the symposium held precisely in the 2,000th anniversary of his death a little more than a year and that reflected decades of work around the work of the Sulmona poet.
The book is illustrated in its dust jacket by Gabriel Alonso Marín,, coming from his visual Metamorphosis I and II.
Carefully edited within the Huelva Classical Monographs collection (Exemplaria Classica Supplements) and with the participation of the most renowned specialists in Ovid of Europe and America, this book has already become an inexcusable reference for lovers and scholars of the work of the writer Roman.
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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