Explore Ovid's Metamorphoses - the poem and the art it has inspired - in ten weekly two-hour morning lectures with powerpoint illustration.

If Ovid had never existed, there would be plenty of blank walls in the world’s art galleries. His masterpiece, Metamorphoses, has uniquely influenced art and literature across 2,000 years, ravishing the palettes of artists from Raphael and Titian through Velasquez, Rembrandt and Giordano to Tiepolo, Poussin and Moreau.

Lives, Ovid says wryly, will always be liable to sudden change by forces outside ourselves and of that alone can we be certain. But who is the magician?