The Course / The Aeneid 2/10

When:
May 8, 2019 @ 10:45 am – 12:45 pm
2019-05-08T10:45:00+01:00
2019-05-08T12:45:00+01:00
Where:
The Course at The University Womens Club
2 Audley Square
Mayfair, London W1K 1DB
UK
Cost:
£59.00
Contact:
Mary Bromley
020 7266 7815

Established in 1994, The Course offers exciting lectures in Art History, Literature and Music.

“Our classic, the classic of all Europe, is Virgil”, said T S Eliot in 1944. 75 years on, the UK is scheduled to leave the EU, but not European culture. What better moment could there be to retrace the journey Virgil created for Aeneas: escape from the Trojan inferno, voyage to Carthage, love for Dido, abandonment of her to found a new Troy at Rome, and pilgrimage to the Underworld, a golden bough as passport. Artists picture it all as if they travelled with him.

The Trojan Horse, and What Happened Next (ii)

Aeneas transports Dido and us back to the fateful sequence of events when a Greek agent’s deceit and the priest Laocoon’s strangulation by sea serpents finally convince the Trojans to take the horse inside the city of Troy and so unleash their own destruction. The Carracci, El Greco, Fragonard, Guérin, the Mykonos Vase, Raphael, Rosa, Schopin and Tiepolo tell it how it was.